Today is a milestone for us, and I’d like to invite you all for a trip down memory lane. According to my records, yesterday was the one year anniversary of the ZippyKid website and company name. I purchased the logo and domain name from Brandstack, on May 22nd 2010. Technically, the company started at SXSW… Read more »
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Stop building mousetraps. A plea to my fellow creators.
Emerson is often misquoted with the saying “Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door”. He never said something that dumb. What he said was: “If a man has good corn or wood, or boards, or pigs, to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles or church… Read more »
Long term goals of ZippyKid
I’ve been fairly busy and quiet for the past few months, I wanted to stop that trend and give people some background on what’s going on. I’m having the time of my life, as some of you know, I’ve been closing down my consulting business, and ramping up ZippyKid. Lately, I’ve been approached by some… Read more »
Multivariate Testing, PHP Frameworks, Plea for help.
I was curious if anyone has any experience with Multivariate (A/B) testing with PHP Frameworks. I found http://phpabtest.com/ yesterday, but I haven’t heard of anyone using it in production yet. Nor have I been able to gather how easily or well it integrates with Symfony, or other frameworks that introduce some level of caching. Here’s what… Read more »
The Best Web Design, and Copywriting Reference. EVER.
I’ve been exchanging some emails with my good friend Bobby Freeman. We’ve been discussing some copy and design for a new project I’ve launched, and am looking to share with the rest of the world. He pointed me to the best web design guide ever. I’d like to share it with all of you, I have… Read more »
Being Lean by accident, in 5th grade.
When I was growing up in India, we had to take “computer programming” courses in 5th grade. At that time they taught us a language called Logo . Making a turtle draw concentric circles was easy, so my friends and I figured out how to get out of what was then an IDE, into qbasic so… Read more »
What I learnt from the "Lean Startup Smackdown" at SXSW 2010.
I ended up at the Smackdown by accident, luck, act of God. I had no clue what was in store. I needed to talk to the Chargify team about their new metered/usage billing , finally Cheddar Getter has a competitor. Lance Walley suggested we talk at the party, so Paul Singh and I decided to… Read more »
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