Michael Ferranti
With Version 1.0, Docker sets stage for next big wave of innovation in the cloud
Yesterday at DockerCon in San Francisco, French-born company Docker Inc, released the long awaited 1.0 version of its open source container-based virtualization software. Docker also announced several complementary services which provide insight into how Docker, Inc, the commercial entity behind the open source project, plan to monetize the massive community that has grown up around […]
A Tale of Two Taxis
The following is a guest post from Michael Ferranti, a marketer and product guy living and working in San Francisco, USA. You can follow him on Twitter @ferrantim where your tweets in English and français are welcome, or on his blog. My favorite way to travel in Paris is the metro, but when I was […]
Why are Apple ads in France advising against the iPhone 5C?
I’ve spent the week in Paris for LeWeb. One of the highlights of the trip has been riding in the Paris Metro, a highly visible symbol of what the French do best: combining world-class engineering with artistic beauty. Adverting is omnipresent in the Paris Metro (it’s no surprise that adtech is a growing part of […]
Branding for developers: it’s way more than t-shirts
The following is a guest post from Michael Ferranti, a marketer and product guy living and working in San Francisco, USA. You can follow him on Twitter @ferrantim where your tweets in English and français are welcome, or on his blog. I’m lucky enough to be writing this post during a break at LeWeb in Paris, a conference celebrating […]
Want your startup to succeed? Peel carrots
The following is a guest post from Michael Ferranti, a marketer and product guy living and working in San Francisco, USA where he earns money for hanger steak and cèpes mushrooms. You can follow him on Twitter @ferrantim where your tweets in English and français are welcome, or on his blog. When I was 17 and got a job cooking […]
500 Startups’ Warmgun conference recap: we’re all designers
The following is a guest post from Michael Ferranti, a marketer and product guy living and working in San Francisco, USA. You can follow him on Twitter @ferrantim where your tweets in English and français are welcome, or on his blog. For the last three years, a highlight of my year has been a design conference called Warmgun organized by […]
Is it lean, or is it sloppy?
The following is a guest post from Michael Ferranti, a marketer and product guy living and working in San Francisco, USA. You can follow him on Twitter @ferrantim where your tweets in English and français are welcome, or on his blog. It’s a great time to start a business. Thanks to the Internet, distribution for countless ideas is almost […]
4 Rules for hiring your startup’s next great employee (and avoiding the duds)
What’s the single most important factor driving the success of a startup? A brilliant idea? Lots of investment capital? Nope. Great hiring. The best idea, no matter how well funded, isn’t worth a thing without a team of smart, dedicated people who can work together effectively. And teams, like chains, are only as strong as […]