Dan Haugen wrote up a very nice overview of Twin Cities’ nascent co-working options. He got some great quotes from Zack Steven, Don Ball, Stephen Filing, and myself. Nice work Dan.
Author Archives: Garrick van Buren
On-going List of Unpublished Books I’ll Happily Pre-Order
I only have one right now. “4. Alex Tabarrok should write a book reconciling his Randian youth with his current views. The book would begin by convincing social scientists that Ayn Rand’s views are at least plausible. Then he would explain which arguments he’s rejected, which ones he still believes, and why. Working title (there’s …
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Minimum Viable Product as 5-Words or Fewer
8 years ago or so, I was helping an client build out a new business unit. Their first step – add a checkbox to their ecommerce checkout process. Their question to me: “Where do we put the checkbox?” The entirety of this new business and the aspirations of the entire team – rolled up into …
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Cold Start #4 – How to Start Your Startup with Dan Grigsby
Dan Grigsby from MobileOrchard, discusses how he’s building a comfortable life for himself with a combination of projects, what’s lacking in the Minnesota tech startup community, and why that isn’t a problem. [55 minutes]
Mental Exercise: Price Free Retail Stores
This past summer, I entertained the idea of purchasing a couple tables at the community garage sale and loading them up with my basement full of stuff-in-need-of-a-better-home. And price everything at $0. Primarily, because I can’t imagine spending the time determining a price for each and every thing, labeling it, handling money, and risk justifying …
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Van Buren Family Christmas Card 2009
Like a lot of families, we’ve scaled down this Christmas. Happy (small)idays from the Van Burens.
2 Choices: Better or Shut Up
I’ve been saving Dave Slusher’s Punk and NaNoWriMo [mp3] talk until I could give it a proper listen. After a week of working through some very hard problems – and only still only seeing just a glimpse of a solution, this morning seemed like a good time. Around the 27 minute mark, Dave mentions the …
Cold Start #3 – Changing Your Startup with Ben Moore
Ben Moore from WorkSimple, discusses how, after almost 3 years into his funded startup, his company changed direction, branding, and almost everything else. [41 minutes]
Subdomain_fu and Destroying Authlogic Sessions with link_to_remote
I’ve been fighting with a bug that doesn’t properly sign a person out from a subdomain (using a combination of Authlogic and Subdomain_fu) The sign out link looks like this: < %= link_to_remote "Sign Out", :url => {:controller => ‘person_sessions’, :action => ‘destroy’, :subdomain => false}, :method => :delete -%> While the session was destroyed, …
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Web Fonts – Identifying a New Species
“…the design of typefaces had existed for centuries as an exclusive discipline reserved for specialists, who had access to proprietary tools. Today the personal computer provides the opportunity to create custom type designs with an increased potential for personalization and expression…Our design of custom fonts for Emigre magazine grew out of our need for unique …