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Startups and Girlfriends

A younger me used to believe that girlfriends + startup = fail. We've all heard the classic silicon valley story of a few entrepreneurs shacked up in an apartment coding all night, living off taco bell. The story ends with the question: how do you compete against that? So I

Fundamentals

Basic fundamentals lay the foundation for the outgrowth of complexity. Understand fundamentals and the rest is easy.

The space that FIELD NOTES filled

I bought a few packs of FIELD NOTES recently, however I already used a Moleskin Plain Cahier (bigger notebook) for almost everything note related, and was at a loss for what to do with them. Until one day I had a thought, and felt more comfortable reaching for and writing

Product

Yes, you can build unintuitive (read user friendly) product and be successful. It's like selling kool-aid to people who are starving. I don't wanna sell kool-aid. I wanna sell water. Let's build great product. Because we want to.

Friends

Surround yourself with people who inspire you. The kinds of friends one wants to have. What's inspiring? Achievement Beliefs Goals Ambitions Surround yourself with people that inspire. Feeling good is also important. People who make you feel good. People who respect you. For who you are, not what

Drive

I wrote this over a year ago and never published it for some reason. Go see it if you haven't it's now on Netflix. Drive was the best new movie I've seen all year. Plot was simple. But each scene contained so much punch:

Flowtown Has Been Acquired By Demandforce

Flowtown was my first ‘real-job’ out of college and it’s been by far the best 2 years 9 months of my life. There are just way to many people to thank. Therefore I’ve gone ahead a sent out personal correspondence and gifts to many of you :) If you’

How To Recruit A+ When You’re An Early Stage Startup

Your investors say it, your advisors preach it, the entire startup community practically chants it: only hire A+ team members. There’s boatloads of reasons why, but I think there’s one that trumps them all. Startups are about solving problems, the bigger opportunity the bigger the problem. The bigger

Everything You Never Wanted To Know About Recruiters

When we started looking into recruiters last April, I was surprised by the complete lack of information regarding anything recruiter. Funding, hiring, operations, development, you can probably think of more than 1 solid blog posts on all these. Recruiters... nothing. Even something as simple as the different kinds of startup