http://bit.ly/ukBHXs

Don’t own VMWare Fusion? Apparently, this license key will work for the cross-grade

Is it worth the upgrade? If you’re a speed demon like me, you betcha!

Here’s how to do it in Ruby on Rails. Add code like below in a controller

  def fb_channel
    response.headers['Pragma'] = 'public'
    expires_in 1.year, :public=>true
    response.headers["Expires"] = CGI.rfc1123_date(Time.now + 1.year)
    render :text=>'<script src="//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js"></script>' + "\n"
  end

I added this in a MiscController that I usually have hanging around for non RESTful paths like this.
In Rails 3, I would add this line in my routes.rb:

  match '/fb_channel', :controller=>'misc', :action=>'fb_channel'

and when I do my FB.init() call, I’d do something like this:

    FB.init({appId:appId, status: true, cookie: true, xfbml:true,
      channelUrl: '<%= url_for(:controller=>'misc', :action=>'fb_channel', : only_path=>false) -%>'});

When they say Buy 10 Get 10 free. You usually don’t have to buy 10. 1 will suffice.

Grocery Stores Use Big Quantities to Entice Shoppers – NYTimes.com.

Bonus: It’s off to a fantastic start on every aspect (in-depth step-by-step analysis, making the right calls, using the right instruments to bet on an investment thesis, etc.) Marketing timing is hard, but if you get it right, the rewards are fantastic.

I’m collecting a list of products to teach a 5 year-old about the world of programming and robots:

• TerrapinLogo and Kinderlogo
• Lego WeDo
• MIT’s Scratch
• Alan Kay’s Squeak
• Cubelets

1. A classic story of how our hero recaptures something stolen (a laptop and birth certificate) from him, with a few unexpected twists and turns along the way
2. A story of how technology is planting wormholes through geography: our hero retrieves belongings 500 miles away from alleged perpetrator
3. Most of the action involves collaboration via social media, amongst hero and his twitter followers
4. The story itself is told via storify in what is mainly a series of tweets

However, I’m humbly suggesting he could have mixed up causation and be viewing things from a skewed sample.

It seems like the main thing that would attract Wilson about a first time entrepreneur would be that she is gaining user traction. After all, by definition, there isn’t much else to go by! It’s very likely that there are lots of first time entrepreneurs that do not get the right product into the market at the right time, arguably even more proportionally than serial entrepreneurs.

Likewise, what would attract Wilson about a serial entrepreneur (esp. compared with a first time entrepreneur) would naturally be her track record! It seems much more likely that Wilson would back a startup with less market traction IF the founders have a good track record than without.

So, I don’t think it’s true that first time entrepreneurs are better at getting significant user traction quickly. I think it’s really, really hard for both first time and serial entrepreneurs; and arguably it gets a little easier with experience.

However, I can see how if you observe from Wilson’s point of view it’ll seem like of the companies he’s backing, the one’s founded by first-time entrepreneurs have fewer user traction issues; that’s perfectly understandable. But it doesn’t mean first time entrepreneurs in general are better at establishing user traction.