Books on Bulrush Labs — Richard Tibbetts

Book Review: Early Exits: Exit Strategies for Entrepreneurs and Angel Investors

Mon, 27 Dec 2010 00:21:00 +0000

“>As someone several years into a successful venture backed enterprise software startup, I find myself spending a lot of time looking at the green grass on the other side of the startup fence: angel funding and quick flips. People have mixed opinions on flipping, both the practicalities and the ethics of quickly flipping a company. Ethically, I tend to agree that “Flipping is Good“. But practically, there are a lot of moving parts in a company and lining them up for a quick windfall seems to require more than a bit of luck. It was in hopes of better understanding these practicalities that I read Basil Peters book Early Exits: Exit Strategies for Entrepreneurs and Angel Investors (But Maybe Not Venture Capitalists).

Exchanging my Kindle for another Sony Reader

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 09:12:00 +0000

I replaced my Sony Reader with a hipper new Amazon Kindle, and I’m totally disappointed. The Kindle has a few good ideas, but it is terribly executed. I’m returning it today (something Amazon is making pleasant enough) and buying another Reader.

Read on for more detail…

About 6 months ago, I bought a used Sony Portable Reader from a friend of a friend. I travel a lot, and have a lot of open-format stuff I wanted to read (pdfs, html manuals, etc). I’ve always through electronic ink was interesting technology, and buying used appealed to my cheaper inclinations.

Book Review: The Change Function

Sat, 01 Dec 2007 20:11:00 +0000

Most business books have only one good idea. In second-class business books, it’s common to name the book after the idea, in the hopes of building some brand recognition. The Change Function fits right into this cliche, providing one good idea, the change function itself. Helpfully, Pip Coburn has the good taste not to pad is his book with many other ideas. Instead, he applies his one good idea to several case studies. If you just want the one idea, read the rest of this post (information wants to be free, after all). If you want case studies and details about applying the idea to an organization, pick up Coburn’s book.

Book Review: Defensive Design for the Web

Sun, 29 May 2005 11:17:00 +0000

37 signal is one of the neatest
companies out there in terms of advancing the state of the art in web
design. It seems like they do almost as much as
href=”http://google.com”>Google, presumably without spending such
embarrassing amounts of money. If you haven’t check out some of their
projects, like Basecamp,
href=”http://www.tadalist.com/”>Ta-da Lists, and
href=”http://backpackit.com”>Backpack, you really should. They
build really nice web apps. Not only that, but they give back to the
community with things like
href=”http://www.37signals.com/svn/archives/000558.php”>the yellow
fade technique and a presentation on
href=”http://www.37signals.com/presentations/sxsw2005/37s-bigthingssmallteam.pdf”>How
to make big things happen with a small team (
href=”http://www.37signals.com/presentations/sxsw2005/37s-bigthingssmallteam.pdf”>slides)
(
href=”http://www.terrystorch.com/2005/03/sxsw_how_to_mak.html”>summary).