The Archive
March 16, 2013
Founder Fiction is a new series I have created to express common experiences, thoughts and feelings I discuss with founders using fictional characters and situations that blend my own experiences with stories from others...
Read more →March 14, 2013
Klout, the company that calculates your individual influence score based on your engagement on various social media sites like Twitter and Facebook, feels stagnant. To make matters worse, last week TechCrunch reported th...
Read more →March 13, 2013
Google Reader is my most beloved Google app and I thought they’d never shut it down. It is endlessly useful, I would pay for it, and now it is going to be gone. Yes, I know there are probably tons of alternatives, but I...
Read more →March 12, 2013
I’ve got more than 250 drafts in here, so what would you like to hear about? Once you submit you can see the results in a pretty pie chart, and I will post the final outcome here as well. Loading poll… Favorite
Read more →March 10, 2013
My greatest fear as a startup founder isn’t to fail, it is to become a zombie startup.
Read more →February 18, 2013
Hacker News has been down for scheduled maintenance (which is running a bit longer than the Internet expected) for about 5 hours now, based on PG’s tweet: Apologies for the HN outage.We think it may be related to the new...
Read more →February 16, 2013
February 9, 2013
Something has changed, permanently, in me. I’ve been trying to figure out how to express it, because the transformation has been so interesting, unexpected, and meaningful to me. If you are a first time founder, or plann...
Read more →February 3, 2013
This post is part of a series called “Playlist” where I post songs I find meaningful in life and entrepreneurship. If you like this I hope you will check out the other posts. Yet another with less than 10,000 views on Yo...
Read more →January 9, 2013
Alternate Title: How NOT to Do Social Media for Your Startup This morning, I happily tweeted about the service UserTesting.com, which I’ve been using to get brutal but extremely helpful feedback on user experience at Ref...
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