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Stanford Expo a Welcome Change to Web Startups

Last Thursday I attended Stanford Design EXPE, where a dozen teams of students present the result of their 9 months of innovative work in relation with a corporate sponsor. The twist is that all projects must build a hardware prototype (I guess because it’s linked to the Mechanical Engineering department). For me, it was a [...]

Instant Idea Feedback for Entrepreneurs

When you just found a great idea for an app, the first step (after the initial excitement subsides) is to gather feedback from as many people as you can. That’s what we just made really simple now on FairSoftware with our new feedback widget. Once you setup your idea and enter a description, the community [...]

Fair Project Highlight: Have a Web Conversation with Your Friends

Few people know that during the dot-com bubble, I tried to start a company about annotating the web, so that your friends could influence what you see. It makes sense to think that the web by itself is too large and needs to be personalized. So I got very interested when I saw Austin Brandt [...]