Editor's note: Bill Gross, the founder of idealab, gave a great presentation at LeWeb last week reflecting on his 30 years as a serial entrepreneur.
Over his amazing career, which began when he was 12, Bill has founded more than 100 companies in dozens of industries. It seems safe to say that he is one of the most successful entrepreneurs in history.
We asked him Bill if we could publish his slide deck. He kindly agreed and provided us with his commentary.
What follows is a look back at one of the most incredible, under-appreciated runs in the industry in the last 30 years.
Learning from Failure*
Bill Gross
Bill Gross, founder of Idealab and more than 100 other companies and one of the world's most energetic, engaging and successful entrepreneurs, recently presented at LeWeb in Paris. He discussed the top dozen lessons he has learned over his exciting, ever-evolving, four-decade career of taking ideas and transforming them into businesses.
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So I’ve got a confession to make: When we started working on the new Boston Globe website, we had never designed a responsive site before.
This shouldn’t come as some huge shock. I mean, raise your hand if you’d built a full responsive site back in November 2010. (You can put your hand down now, Mr. Marcotte, that was rhetorical.) Since so few had done it — and certainly not on this scale — we kind’ve made things up as we went along. In fact, the entire Boston Globe team worked in a laboratory environment.1
Here at Upstatement, we experimented with how to solve design and layout problems within a responsive framework. We learned a helluva lot as we went, like how to choose the right design software, strategies for thinking through breakpoints, and some best practices for designing in the browser.
Ready? Good. Cos here we go …
Choose Your Weapon
Before laying down a single pixel, there was an important decision to make: What design program to use?
