#2: On The Importance Of Side Projects
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08/24/15 • 11 min
Christy and Russ discuss their personal experience of side projects, of which they have started many and finished few.
- Why do side projects?
- Why is finishing them so hard?
- What happens to the unfinished ones?
Some real insights into the design and dev duo's process (or lack of) and lessons learned.
Christy and Russ discuss their personal experience of side projects, of which they have started many and finished few.
- Why do side projects?
- Why is finishing them so hard?
- What happens to the unfinished ones?
Some real insights into the design and dev duo's process (or lack of) and lessons learned.
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#1: What Skills Should A Founder Have?
Tom & Dan discuss the skills and qualities a startup founder needs and a couple that they probably think they do but don't.
- The importance of a strong vision
- Why you don't need coding skills
- The irreplaceability of industry insight
- Good determination and bad determination
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#3: Technology Choices And How You Should Make Them
Dan and Christy discuss choosing technologies. Trying to stay impartial because unbalanced views are the biggest problem, they fail to be impartial. There was swearing. Apologies to any technologies offended.
- What are the different aspects around choosing a technology
- Tried and tested vs cutting edge
- The biggest mistakes we've made
- Why developers are not the people to ask
It’s a long one but if you stick around there’s the opportunity to hear Christy’s vision for Lighthouse, which is frankly terrifying.
Watch out for the accompanying blog post which tries to make sense of the madness.
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