http://blog.increosolutions.com Increo Solutions Corporate Blog Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:08:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In Increo's early days, we didn't need a vacation policy.  We left when we needed to, came back as soon as we could, and worked while we were gone. As the team began growing and changing, people started asking me if they could take Friday off or if a working week ... http://blog.increosolutions.com/2008/11/the-official-increo-vacation-policy-oivp/ Starting your own company right out of college is not for everyone. It requires the willingness to gain experience in many different areas of business (marketing, law, finance, product development, and others), a supreme passion for what you are building, the resolve to keep on trying in the face of ... http://blog.increosolutions.com/2008/11/5-reasons-to-get-involved-in-entrepreneurship-as-a-student/ http://twitpic.com/llhx - Early-stage startup. # The Official Increo Corporate Directory: http://bit.ly/35Y50j # http://blog.increosolutions.com/2008/11/recently-on-twittercomincreo-26/ The elevator pitch is something Silicon Valley entrepreneurs have come to know and love: your entire mission, your entire raison d’être all wrapped up in 150 words that can be delivered in under a minute. Venture capitalists and people like Michael Arrington and Om Malik can’t get through an hour ... http://blog.increosolutions.com/2008/11/the-elevator-pitch-and-the-bar-pitch/ A few days ago, we took a break from developing our own products and participated in SocialText's Widget Wednesday, a "distributed hackathon for widgets and mashups." All this means is that SocialText invited companies to participate in a day of coding micro-applications that would make use of their newly released ... http://blog.increosolutions.com/2008/11/widget-wednesday/ Other first-time entrepreneurs often come to me and tell me they have this great idea that "nobody has ever done before," a great new approach, a new way of thinking about something. Great.  That is awesome, it really is.  But it's not enough, and even people who should know better often ... http://blog.increosolutions.com/2008/11/evidence/ Jason Fried talks about cooking-related marketing: http://bit.ly/siia # A clbuttic programming problem: http://bit.ly/c1zL # What we're listening to this morning: http://etn.fm/Shows/progressive # The new hotness is very, very hot. Stay tuned. # http://blog.increosolutions.com/2008/11/recently-on-twittercomincreo-4/ I started at Increo last Monday the 3rd. I’ve taken over the resident newbie position from Henry and have had many questions over the past week. The thing that has struck me the most in this short time is the ability to make decisions and move quickly. Prior to joining Increo ... http://blog.increosolutions.com/2008/11/getting-stuff-done/ We know you’ll all be woefully disappointed to hear this, but the simple truth is that Increo does not have HermanMiller Embody chairs for its employees. Then again, we’re also not the types to spend fourteen hours straight sitting down; there’s enough action in the office that we’ll be moving around ... http://blog.increosolutions.com/2008/11/office-ergonomics-on-a-budget/ This weekend I sat down and tackled the RAM problem: the amount of memory it takes the server to generate a single page of a website. For Backboard, we have our server set up to allocate just 16 MB of RAM to PHP for the execution of each request. This allows ... http://blog.increosolutions.com/2008/11/reducing-memory-usage-in-a-cakephp-application/