Thoughts and discoveries

In their recent blog post Mac App Store more than doubles new users Evernote show that being open and honest about numbers is something you can do and something that works well. Be sure to look at the comments too.

This is something I'm inspired by and plan to do more of myself.

I think this slide deck hits the nail on the head with one of the main problems with entrepreneurship here in the UK.

We need to learn to help each other to help ourselves, and right now too many of us do our own thing in our own place and rarely get together to collaborate and accelerate our progress.

Why stay at home stressing over scaling problems when there's a guy in the same city whose solved those problems before? Why struggle to grasp the principles of agile software development when there's a guy who teaches agile for a living just across the city? Why settle for mediocre user experience on your web app when there's a guy who lives for user experience just a few roads away?

We need to get out more and be more open to help each other. Once we start doing that, things will start to get better for everyone, ourselves included.

I am trying to encourage this with events like the StartupMill, but we have a long way to go! What are your thoughts?

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