Category Archives: Startup
Should You Have Faith in Lean Startups (or In Your Startup)?
Ash Maurya is asking a very good question: Do you have faith in lean startups? He goes on to digest the “faith” in lean startups and cautions the practitioners to have a healthy dose of skeptism: Observe the Stockdale Paradox … Continue reading
Recruiting and Attracting Technical Talents
Summary of the thread over in Lean Startup Circles discussing how to compensate technical talents, which then turn into its prerequisite on attracting the talent in the first place: It is currently a supplier’s market – there are more demands for … Continue reading
Lean Startup != Cheap Startup
One of the biggest misconceptions about the Lean startup concept is “Lean = Cheap”, i.e. the startup will be under-capitalized, the team should live off little, etc. Encouraging a start-up to run on a little budget is almost redundant, by … Continue reading
Choosing a VPS Provider
As a first-time customer of VPS services, my choice of VPS is based on the following criteria: Reputation – positive word-of-mouth from its users is a must. Well-known is better than non-well-known Cost – the cheaper the better of course, but … Continue reading
Moving Servers Out of Garage
I have been running production servers from my garage in the past few years, but this approach suffers from the following issues: Consumer broadband is not reliable enough – although broadband such as cable or DSL are much more reliable … Continue reading


