Unstructured Thoughts on Making Websites

  • Markus Frind might be the Michael Jordan of entrepreneurship: the example of a one-man ad-supported multimillionaire has led a lot of people to follow a difficult path, as Jordan's example led millions of kids to make playing pro basketball the focus of their life. It gets a lot easier when you have a cofounder and you do something that people want to pay you for, so keep that in mind when you're making your plans.

  • Sounds like the author followed the YC mantra, and managed to make a couple of things which people liked. Then, he couldn't figure out how to market it. I think this is where (something like) YC could have given him a huge boost, with that initial announcement on TechCrunch. Almost sounds like a textbook example of why a marketing-oriented cofounder would have been useful.

  • reminds me a bit of Cringley's: Commandos, Infantry, and Police.

    http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000025.html

  • Seriously unstructured. Initially when I was reading the article, it seemed to be making sense but later it goes completely haywire.

    Overall this is what feeling I get after reading the article: maybe Evan has got bored of all the things he did and wants to do something exiciting now. What exciting? He doesn't know.

  • When change got stuck in office coke machine, upon handing over the keys Michael Dell said he learned the most important thing to building a successful business: how to delegate.