The Archive
June 22, 2012
I’ve been blogging for a long time, longer than I’ve owned this domain or had Google Analytics. Â Beyond public blogging I also keep a paper journal, and in fact cart an entire box of my old journals with me whenever I m...
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I obsess over my startup’s metrics. I constantly have Google Analytics realtime running in my browser to monitor traffic on Referly, and throughout the day I check it to see how many people are concurrently visiting our...
Read more →June 18, 2012
I’ve been thinking about how people make product placements online, and probably have watched over 100 “haul” videos trying to understand why they get hundreds of thousands of views. Â I’d be remiss if I didn’t make my o...
Read more →June 11, 2012
When you launch a company suddenly everyone is a competitor, or so it feels. Then you realize everyone you thought was a competitor might also be a partner at best, and a distraction at worst. Next you realize your idea...
Read more →June 3, 2012
I’ve embarked on a new adventure as CEO & Cofounder of Referly – a startup that is helping anyone earn rewards for referring products they love and generating purchases. We are in the YCombinator class this summer. Lea...
Read more →May 29, 2012
Its been two weeks since we launched Referly to the world, and I’m proud to report that I’ve earned $34.91 using the service to share products I own and love. I’ve tried to act like a (somewhat) normal person with Refer...
Read more →May 28, 2012
I love saying yes. I love helping people, and being generous with my time whenever I can. I love being a mentor. I love the brain dump, having my brain picked and picking others, coffee, chats, happy hour, walks aroun...
Read more →May 17, 2012
On Monday we launched Referly, and announced we will be participating in YCombinator this summer. While this is only my second full-time week as a founder, I thought it would be fun to rummage around in my email and Gith...
Read more →April 9, 2012
We’ve been done before And now we try to forge ourselves We’ve been done before And now we try to forge ourselves I’ll be true again But until then i fake the books ‘cause everybody knows This ain’t heaven Unti...
Read more →March 27, 2012
All the gold and the guns in the world couldn’t get you off All the gold and the guns and the girls couldn’t get you off All the boys, All the choices in the world I remember when we were gambling to win Everybody else...
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