Carl Mercier's blog

me = entrepreneur + hacker;

Month: October, 2006

Get Real (for free!)

37Signals, the makers of BaseCamp and Ruby On Rails (among other things) just released a free html version of their excellent book Getting Real. I had initially bought the PDF book when it came out and while I do not agree with everything they say, I think it is a good read for pretty much [...]

Why Silicon Valley is so much better!

Pretty much everyone who knows me knows that I am very bored (ashamed?) by the tech/startup/entrepreneurship scene of Montreal. I have repeatedly said that Silicon Valley is *the* place to be for any serious Internet entrepreneur and based my claims on actual facts. Yet, a lot of people living outside of Silicon Valley fail to [...]