William Grosso @ October 31, 2009
I have a talk at Charles Hudson’s Virtual Goods Summit 2009. Mostly based on experience garnered at Twofish and then at Live Gamer.
Managing a Virtual Economy
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William Grosso @ September 18, 2007
Recently, the valley has seen a trend towards mini-conferences. One or two day events centered around a hot technology topic. The idea seems to be: move very fast, get all the top names around a topic with a lot of buzz, and get it all done within 60 days (120 days at the top).
There’s definitely [...]
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William Grosso @ October 9, 2006
So sometime in the past year or two, Paul Graham famously asked
The three big powers on the Internet now are Yahoo, Google, and Microsoft. Average age of their founders: 24. So it is pretty well established now that grad students can start successful companies. And if grad students can do it, why [...]
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William Grosso @ April 28, 2006
I recently went to a thought-provoking talk on how languages influence software architecture. And, while I wouldn't claim to understand the deep subtleties of programming languages and architecture better than Peter Seibel, I'm mostly convinced he's absolutely wrong when he claims LISP is a better programming language than Java.
I've run into a lot of people [...]
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