Don’t follow your heroes 2014: a year of making stuff Slack research hack Landing page teardown: Serial podcast How user growth really works Do I look dumb? How to discover the hidden benefits of your product Do things that scare you Be careful who you go to for advice Let’s make some stuff The cold months are coming What type of pain are you solving? The person on the other side of the screen Play the long game Earn the right to be heard Your product’s missing ingredient Is it harder to get noticed? It’s different now When you can’t win Your second biggest problem Desperation Be social IRL Choose your audience wisely Your blog could be a party My embarrassing iTunes receipt Start your marketing with other people in mind Don’t confuse hard problems with valuable problems Speaking of starting small How to start Get traffic for your content A simple way to validate your startup idea Is “sales” a dirty word? We are not normal people Feeling threatened This is real life Where do you find the time for side projects? The 2013 revenue stats I didn’t want to share It’s not us, it’s them Succeed with your own product in 2014 Why didn’t you launch in 2013? Why you need a Week of Hustle How to choose an audience for your email list 1,000 email subscribers What stops us from building products? How remote work changed my life The downward spiral Where does a great culture come from? My first kiss Nikki Durkin: Don’t talk about ideas – just do it Why you’re not making sales How to get (and keep) a job in startups Geeks as tastemakers Producing good content isn’t enough Self-Publishing Hangout highlights Just f*cking do it Hiring developers Why people buy products Sitting on the curb drinking a slurpee This is a web page The principle that changed my life Believe in me Heads down Quit trying to attract a crowd and just help people Pretty doesn’t sell Twenty dollars in an envelope How to end the remote work debate How (not) to validate your idea Don’t call it a comeback (working remotely) Meet people Starting a business is easy Jarrod Drysdale’s advice for starting My blogging demons Stop networking at events A VIKA BYSKE standing desk Why it’s not enough to build a product that people want Why distributed teams are more effective Why I would pay for Twitter What the People of Wal-Mart actually want Why I don’t read at work What Amy Hoy taught me about starting a business A 13-year-old on a BBS Retina is not a big deal Terrible Apple products Geek dad You only win once – Rodney Mullen Why people buy software No one wants to buy my sneakers Forget the Valley: bootstrap founders can live wherever they want Most successful founders are in their mid-30’s, married with children Kathy Sierra is brilliant Customers don’t care about your solutions Things I’ve quit doing at my desk Is college the best way to get career skills? If you work with pixels you should be thankful What’s important How to keep clients happy Building a better mousetrap? It had better catch more mice. Fatherhood What is real work? How to get 1000’s of paying customers How do you know when to stop designing? Where would you rather work: 37signals or Zappos? Useful is forever Zappos is wow Remembering Mitch Hedberg How do you consume digital media? Your idea needs a passionate believer How to build a better Canadian neighborhood Louis CK sucks at social media, but he sure can sell Are you in love with the idea, or with customers? People want the basics done well Meshwest Edmonton How to design a customer support process 8 habits for a better day at work My rant on customer support for web apps Stop screen sucking Everybody stop No one knows what they’re doing How changing your market can save your product The coupon code is a slap in the face I worked a day at 37signals, and I liked it If you’re from Edmonton, you’ll remember Happy Pop soda The sex and cash theory Building a standing desk Why are people looking at your website? We’re in the Age of Content This is a classy move Be real. B2B Business lesson: less research, launch small Business lesson: Go where the people are Review of 37signals’ first app for the iPad: Draft The iPad is a family device I think this is me in 1984 2010: Products I can’t live without Better time spent at work Interviews from the Future of Web Apps in Miami In Miami for FOWA A better office Better typing A better Apple TV A better birthday party for kids Better doctor visits: house calls A better urbanism Financial services web site Local news web site Web site and promotion for Duchess Bake Shop Think clearly about print advertising A better toilet A better parking lot Mike Bridge’s photography Check it out: Stephen Kiers photography Why can’t we stream TV in Canada? Yes! Apple TV! James Jones rocks CTV Good news for fans of the IT Crowd Justin’s world