A blog about code and startups by Jason C. Roberts http://www.codusoperandi.com en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Jason C. Roberts Wed, 08 Dec 2010 2:16:17 -0500 Wed, 08 Dec 2010 2:16:17 -0500 Loudmouth v0.1 So, this is my MVB (minimum viable blog), which consists of nothing more than a handful of simple PHP, HTML and CSS pages. I realize that I'm supposed to use the standard issue WordPress like everyone else, but for my needs WordPress just seemed like... http://www.codusoperandi.com/posts/hello-world Sun, 17 Oct 2010 9:15:36 -0400 jason@codusoperandi.com There's been quite a bit of discussion lately about how to arrange for a TechCrunch launch and while I can understand the allure, I think it may be more trouble than it's worth and could actually be much more damaging than you might imagine. For a... http://www.codusoperandi.com/posts/forget-the-techcrunch-launch Mon, 25 Oct 2010 11:13:09 -0400 jason@codusoperandi.com I just read Jason Calacanis's post about whether or not it's possible to have a baby and do a startup at the same time and thought it might be interesting to share my perspective as I'm a serial entrepreneur, I'm currently bootstrapping my latest web... http://www.codusoperandi.com/posts/bootstrapping-with-kids Fri, 29 Oct 2010 3:05:55 -0400 jason@codusoperandi.com If there's one thing I've discovered in recent years it's this. The amount of serendipity that will occur in your life, your Luck Surface Area, is directly proportional to the degree to which you do something you're passionate about combined with the... http://www.codusoperandi.com/posts/increasing-your-luck-surface-area Mon, 08 Nov 2010 11:39:56 -0500 jason@codusoperandi.com Back in 2005 I was working on a web-based version of PowerPoint called Preezo. I had received some angel funding from a friend who was a successful entrepreneur, but aside from the very part-time help of another coder based in London, it was for all... http://www.codusoperandi.com/posts/sleeping-on-mike-arringtons-couch Tue, 30 Nov 2010 2:06:13 -0500 jason@codusoperandi.com I began building a web-based version of PowerPoint called Preezo back in the Spring of 2005 after switching the direction of my angel-funded startup for the third time in less than a year. Prior to that I had been working on a web collaboration... http://www.codusoperandi.com/posts/how-i-screwed-up-my-google-acquisition Wed, 08 Dec 2010 2:16:17 -0500 jason@codusoperandi.com I spent the better part of six years, from roughly 1999 to 2004 and again in 2008, pursuing the chimeric fortunes of automated / algorithmic trading and while I never actually reached the promised land of a wildly successful trading system, along the... http://www.codusoperandi.com/posts/why-i-quit-algorithmic-trading-to-do-web-startups Mon, 26 Sep 2011 2:00:30 -0500 jason@codusoperandi.com