http://anders.tyckr.com Words of a startup CEO Wed, 02 Jul 2008 09:26:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I just found this presentation which says a lot of the things I stand for. Passion is the most important ingredient in a startup. With passion and the right connections, you are almost home safe. Of course you have to pick the right thing to be passionate about, but that's ... http://anders.tyckr.com/2008/07/02/the-importance-of-passion-in-a-startup/ Apply online at http://application.seedcamp.com. The deadline for entries this year is 23:59 on Sunday 10 August. Make sure that you look at the application guide and answer the questions as short and concise as possible. Feel free to ask me for help filling out the application. Related articles 2008 applications are open! [via Zemanta] http://anders.tyckr.com/2008/07/01/seedcamp-applications-are-now-open/ Ok, this is a little bit late news, but Seedcamp has released the application guide for 2008 applications. The applications are due August 10 and I really encourage anyone with an idea and a great co-founder(s) to apply. Even if you are not interested in applying for the "competition" I ... http://anders.tyckr.com/2008/06/27/seedcamp-application-guide-released/ Seedcamp's new promotion video interviews a bunch of great entrepreneurs and investors and asks them a couple of very interesting questions. After seeing the video I wanted to give my opinions on the matter from the point of view of being a fairly fresh entrepreneur that won the Seedcamp competition ... http://anders.tyckr.com/2008/05/07/my-take-on-the-seedcamp-video-questions/ I just started using Twitter yesterday, and I can't believe how late I am to the party. I'm feeling really lame that I'm not such an early adopter as I thought I was. But I guess, now that I've started, it's really frustrating not to have a bunch of followers ... http://anders.tyckr.com/2008/04/26/to-twitter-or-not-to-twitter/ On the May 8, STING's Innovation & Technology Award will be given to the top technology companies that apply to the competition. The winners will get a nice 150,000 SEK (€16,000) in pricemoney, but more importantly the winner will be direct qualified to the final of this years Seedcamp. Last ... http://anders.tyckr.com/2008/03/24/your-chance-to-go-to-seedcamp/ Lately I have received some requests on how Zend Layout can be used while not using the default templating system in Zend Framework (ZF), but instead using Smarty as a templating engine. So here is a write up on how to do so. The way to implement this may vary, ... http://anders.tyckr.com/2008/03/12/implementing-zend-layout-and-smarty-using-zend-framework-mvc/ Yesterday I was helping out our sister-company Mindmancer with some network problems they had. They were doing some testing which forced them to change the clock in Windows Vista. Vista wasn't quite ready for the change, and dropped the network connections directly. Why, well, maybe the DHCP leases from the ... http://anders.tyckr.com/2008/03/06/did-they-really-have-dhcp-in-1872/ Quite an interesting problem. If you set encoding headers for XMLHttpRequests to header('Content-Type' , 'text/html; charset=utf8'); instead of header('Content-Type', 'text/html; charset=UTF-8'); IE7 will give the nice and clear error c00ce56e. So if you ever get this problem, here's the solution. update: Sorry for my brief description of the problem. The problem occurs when ... http://anders.tyckr.com/2008/03/04/error-c00ce56e-in-ie/ As I have posted on before, the mobile social networking space is starting to take off. Now there is a new player who launched at the mobile world congress in Barcelona: GyPSii. They, as well as Tuurf and Zkout (two Swedish startups), are focusing on GPS-based social networking softwares for ... http://anders.tyckr.com/2008/02/11/gps-focused-mobile-social-networks-is-apparently-hot/