Ed Catmull, alongside Steve Jobs and John Lasseter, co-founded Pixar Animation Studios. In fact, he played a key role in developing the rendering system used in several of their films and by the wider film industry. And now, he has written a book called Creativity, Inc., which grants the reader a peek into the creative process at Pixar and how other businesses…
AppViz is a popular sales-tracking tool for iOS developers that I believe dates back to 2009. Yesterday, The Iconfactory announced AppViz 3, the latest and greatest iteration of the service yet. The Mac app has been completely redesigned, with easy-to-understand graphs and statistics about how your apps are doing on the App Store. You can monitor in-app purchases, read reviews of your…
This leather business card case features walnut sides and a unique cut-away design making it easy to push out your cards, rather than try to pinch and pull them out of the case. The result is a crisp, unwrinkled card to hand out. As we all know, if it's closing a big sale, starting a new partnership or landing a date, a…
I read this book on my Kindle while flying to WWDC last week, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. There are 88 chapters, some as short as a single paragraph, and they cover all manners of questions, challenges, tips, and goals that entrepreneurs and business owners face. It's written by Felix Dennis, the founder of Dennis Publishing. Dennis is an interesting character, and…
Do you have an entrepreneurial spirit? Are you constantly thinking about how to create things, build new businesses, or how to improve or transform your organization? Are you trying to find innovative ways of doing business to replace old, outdated ones? If so, then this book is for you. This is one book that is best served on the paper it's printed…