Unstructured Thoughts on Making Websites

Markus Frind might be the Michael Jordan of entrepreneurship: the example of a one-man ad-supported multimillionaire has led a lot of people to follow a difficult path, as Jordan's example led millions of kids to make playing pro basketball the focus of their life. It gets a lot easier when you have a cofounder and you do something that people want to pay you for, so keep that in mind when you're making your plans.

Sounds like the author followed the YC mantra, and managed to make a couple of things which people liked. Then, he couldn't figure out how to market it. I think this is where (something like) YC could have given him a huge boost, with that initial announcement on TechCrunch. Almost sounds like a textbook example of why a marketing-oriented cofounder would have been useful.

reminds me a bit of Cringley's: Commandos, Infantry, and Police.<p><a href="http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000025.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000025.html</a>

Seriously unstructured. Initially when I was reading the article, it seemed to be making sense but later it goes completely haywire.<p>Overall this is what feeling I get after reading the article: maybe Evan has got bored of all the things he did and wants to do something exiciting now. What exciting? He doesn't know.

When change got stuck in office coke machine, upon handing over the keys Michael Dell said he learned the most important thing to building a successful business: how to delegate.