Spencer Fry Blog

Dave, Jason and I have released our new Carbonmade marketing site.

I had lunch last week with Dave, Danny, Shawn, and Andrew (who was graciously visiting us from Canada) and the topic of passive income came up.

On the first of every month I spend much of the day updating Carbonmade's finances with last month's data.

On Saturday, January 30th, Wired ran an article entitled "Google's ‘Don't Be Evil' Mantra is ‘Bullshit,' Adobe Is Lazy" — reportedly words from Steve Jobs' mouth at an Apple Town Hall meeting that same day.

I initially thought about writing this piece for our company blog, but as that's mainly for product news, announcements, and marketing, I've decided to write it for the more entrepreneur-oriented audience that reads this blog.

Lately I've been really stressed out with work.

My most popular essay to date, with over 12,500 pageviews, was What's A Non-Programmer To Do?

Prominent startups such as Balsamiq and others like Squarespace and 37signals (to some extent) have been open about disclosing their revenue — and in Balsamiq's case also their profit.

I've had a life plan thought out for a while now, and with 2010 only two days away, I thought I'd let everyone know about it.

A friend of mine who'll remain anonymous is battling the demons of having a less than stellar co-founder.

The other day I had lunch with my friend Phineas Barnes and we chatted about Carbonmade, startups, and other things.

This is the story of how we went about hiring Grant Blakeman (portfolio) for Carbonmade.

Until September 2009 I spent my entire entrepreneurial career — dating back to 1995 — working out of my house, apartment, or dorm room.

It's the week of Thanksgiving, so I thought I'd keep things light — you'll be full of turkey, mashed potatoes and stuffing, so nothing too heavy.

Nivi and Naval of Venture Hacks wrote an article last Thursday entitled "How to Pick a Co-Founder" that provides lots of useful advice and also argues that two co-founders is better than three.

Customer service is often an after-thought, but not for guys like Craig Newmark (craigslist) and Tony Hsieh (Zappos) who built their businesses around it.

We share offices with Harvest and often rib each other when our competitors come out with something new.

I wrote a comment for Hacker News back in August in response to a guy's question about what a non-programmer should do in a startup.

This is the history of Carbonmade from its start in early 2006 up to our reaching 100,000 registered users in March 2009 and how we got there.

I signed @carbonmade up for Twitter back on March 19, 2008, mainly to protect our trademark.