Justin Laing

Free: The Past and Future of a Radical Price
This is a must watch video for anyone who is making big decisions about technology buying or selling. Once you realize that a technology is approaching zero cost you need to shift your thinking to imagine what would the world look like if it did actually cost [...]

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Check out the list of Seattle area startups published today:
200+ Seattle Startups

MerchantOS ranked pretty well at #50. Especially considering it’s a niche business product and many of the companies on the list are more aimed at the general public.

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He collected some awesome customer interviews at Interbike 07. Here’s a selection:

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I’ll be at Seattle Tech Startups tomorrow. I met the some of the attendees and organizer at Seattle MindCamp a while ago and it sounds like an awesome group.

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Check out the point of sale made easy blog I write for my company MerchantOS (Web based point of sale software).

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A while back I read the book THE FROG AND PRINCE: Secrets of Positive Networking. It made a couple of good points but the most important was to approach people with the attitude: What can I do for you? With that attitude you’ll get the best response from people and you’ll open up a channel [...]

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Here’s the company I want to work at:
Every employee gets a base salary. Say $50K/year, doesn’t really matter too much as long as it’s not too high.
Every employee gets a yearly budget. Say another $50K/year.
Employees organize them selves into projects that they create and pool their budgets to fund the projects.
Here’s how it would work: [...]

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Many people have mentioned that if Apple OS X were available for their intel/x86 box they would give it a whirl. If not using it as their main OS at least as a secondary. Guy Kawasaki writes in the Art of The Start that Apple once thought their computers would be used for standard [...]

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In response to Jeffrey Zeldman’s Web 3.0 arcticle, talked about on ajaxian:
It’s not as easy as Jeffrey makes it out to be to design and run an application that is used by masses of people. If it were then Yahoo, Google, eBay etc would not be paying millions to buy these products and user [...]

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I recently put up a project for bid on Rent A Coder.  This looks like a great way to get side projects done.  For not much you can try out an idea, get some help, or fix a bug. Within 2 days I’ve gotten about 20 bids about 10 of which were from what looked [...]

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