I am thrilled to see the term "Punctuated Equilibrium" used in regards to language evolution! Very interesting!

Excellent write up. What I find in a lot of these sort of Agile process stories is what comes before and after the process is almost more important.

Developers and companies in general are there to build new things and push out new features. But what I have found is that sometimes the backlog and feature requests cloud the ability to focus on changing the entire product or user experience.

There is a lot of "feature creep" in products these days where rather than refining the current product, more is added on to it to "enhance the user experience" or to provide "more productivity".

There should be at least one sprint per month or quarter that is devoted to removing backlog and feature / functionality from the product. Yes, removing features from the product.

Making this a normal process gets people used to the idea that it is ok to get rid of something and to be constantly looking at how to improve by removing things versus always adding.

Thank you... Glad you liked it...

Yes this one sprint per month good be great :)

If what you are building has a credibility and validity engine built into it (versus just crowdsourced upvoting), this could be a valuable tool for gamblers and fantasy sports fans.

What was interesting to me was that I thought this was where higher level players could share insights on the general sport strategy.

For example, I would love to know how football teams identify the "Mike" and how defenses and offenses are read for audibles.

I've heard people say pocket passers read defenses from the outside in and running quarterbacks read from the inside out.

If I was a defensive coordinator, it would be good to know what an expert does in each of those situations.

Yep, that's my target audience: gamblers and those that play fantasy sports or are in pickem pools. I've thought about how to add credibility to submissions but decided to leave that out for now.

Its real tough to be a solo founder and you need somebody with different skill sets to augment your own and to keep you on track.

The various founder dating sites and events are a means to an end. A lot of it depends on your pitch and idea but it's good practice and networking never hurts.

I met one of my cofounders on Angellist.com and the other on CoFounderslab.com.

I had a decent wireframe of the site and how the database and interactions would work but the other cofounders helped to elevate the rough idea.

RoomPoll.com would not be possible without my cofounders.

Did you try Import.io?

mailbox had their signup that showed you where you were in line to get the app which was pretty cool because it ticked down every day and you could see the number of people behind you.

Gmail was pretty awesome too.

Thanks Brothe2000, sorry for the late reply. Gmail had invitations for a long time...do you remember how long?

Leadpages is a great company and provides a ton of content and training on best practices.

Nice. Clean, staightforward, and will probably drive some money your way.

It will be a great lead into other services and requests from customers.

If their goal was brand awareness they achieved it as I had never heard of them until now.

That being said I want nothing to do with them.

In the case of the App Store, Apple is perhaps missing a lot of revenue opportunity due to the raise of the in app advertising platforms that have been built to generate revenue.

They take 30% on the sale through the store but if it's a free game with in-game advertisement, I don't think they get anything unless its the iAd platform, correct?