Good blogs, and bad blogs
I'll admit: maybe I've not gotten the Blog thing quite right yet.
But I do know when I see one that is good. I define good as one that:
- Is “well-written” (in the sense of the art of writing);
- Has content that is thoughtful. Somebody actually had something useful to share;
- Made me feel I knew something new and useful when I'm done.
Running an internally-funded software company is great fun. It's also tricky. I've been the CEO of a venture-backed startup, and while it (too) has tricky stuff, there's usually some asset somewhere - money, people, technology - that can be deployed to solve a problem. There are fewer assets in an internally-funded company.
So this blog, produced by a small software vendor, is a “good” blog in my opinion, because it meets my definition of a good blog, and it's all about how to help make a small software startup better. Kudos, Patrick McKenzie, on a terrific blog.