This is Jamie Quint's blog covering technology, entrepreneurship, economics, and anything else interesting.
Paul Graham, and entrepreneur and technologist who I have a lot of respect for, gave a talk at RailsConf 2006 this year titled “The Power of the Marginal.” The talk detailed the benefits of being on the “margins”, a place that is often looked down upon. It is from the margins, rather than the mainstream, […]
Wouldn’t it be great to have all the money and power to start whatever you wanted? Would you love to have all the resources and none of the worries, you could do really innovative things, but you most likely wouldn’t. With position and power comes a certain amount of complacency and constraints, and the temptation […]
There are some books that get you really excited, this is one of them. Chris Anderson fells the 80/20 rule and principles of traditional marketing in one fell swoop. The best books are the ones that give you an entirely new perspective on life, and this truly does that. He discusses how the democratization of […]
According to recent Yahoo polls over 72% of American adults have considered starting their own business. That is some 107 million individuals (217 million US adults * 68.6% with internet access * 72%), however, there less than a 0.5% conversion rate per year from those who desire to start their own businesses to those that […]
Welcome to my blog, it covers my random thoughts on college, technology, entrepreneurship, economics, and anything else that is interesting. My Ruby on Rails themed blog will also be up soon at joyofrails.com More content to come soon.