Sisyphus For Startups
Push the rock. If I had to sum up my advice to entrepreneurs in one sentence, that would be as good as any.
Backupify is my 17th business idea, if we define ideas not as flippant spur of the moment thoughts, but as something I seriously considered for more than a few weeks. [...]
Facebook Backup App in Beta
At Backupify we have launched a Facebook backup application that you can attach to your account. It comes with 1 Gb storage for free, and makes daily backups of your Facebook account. The app backs up pictures, notes, wall posts, friends, and more. The app is still in beta, but check it [...]
The Dark Side of Customer Development and Lean Startups
Update: Clarification added at the end of the post
Version 1 of Backupify was built with less than $10,000. A friend of mine had suggested that an automated Flickr backup tool might be useful, and a few others agreed. But rather than raise a bunch of money and waste it on something that [...]