Month: November 2012

I wrote my first line of Ruby code five days ago. I installed Rails three days ago. I have a functioning Ruby on Rails app online using Heroku today. What I’ve built using Rails in three days is significantly more well built and tested then what I could have built using PHP and MySQL in […]

My least favorite thing in Los Angeles are the people who complain about living in (or having lived in) Los Angeles. Chill out and give it time, or move elsewhere and start pretending that’s what you always wanted. LA is a city for dreamers and visionaries, for people who see potential in people and things […]

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Crowdtilt let you collect money privately from groups of friends, Groupon style (meaning they only get charged once you reach a goal). It’s a great way to collect money for a group gift, throwing a party, or just buying a keg (which is basically throwing a party). Pretty cool news, you can make the collections […]

Kara Swisher is a badass. She’s followed the Internet as a journalist, before it was cool, and today runs All Things D, a major tech blog owned by the Wall Street Journal (technically Dow Jones & Company). Last night, Jazon Nazar interviewed her at Startup Uncensored. I don’t know if I laughed or learned more. […]

If you haven’t heard of Startup Weekend yet, it’s an event where 80~100 entrepreneurs get together and launch multiple startups in a matter of 54 hours. Startup Weekend Los Angeles is happening this weekend, and there are still tickets left for graphic designers! A few Startup Weekend’s ago, Ashton Kutcher stopped by with Demi to […]

This is an exercise in not stopping to write for five minutes. You sit in front of a computer for five minutes, and make any effort not to stop typing for even a few seconds. The important things here isn’t to make sense, it isn’t to make no mistakes, grammatically or contextually. What’s most important […]

Sean Ellis is the first marketer at a number of notable startups, including Dropbox, LogMeIn, Lookout, Xobni, and Uproar. Today, he is the CEO/Founder of Qualaroo. We were very lucky to have him teach “Enhancing User Engagement for Faster Growth” at Coloft Academy today. Here are some key take aways from his talk. What is […]

What’s trending in tech news? Amazon. Amazon Prime, which used to only have year long subscriptions as $79, is now available for a monthly fee of $7.99. For those of you who didn’t know, Amazon Prime offers a video streaming service like Netflix. While Netflix has more tv shows I like, Amazon has more movies […]

At last week’s #SocEntLA event, I was speaking to a gentleman in his early thirties who was telling me about how his generation is on a weird cusp when it comes to learning programming languages. He’s too young to dismiss the idea completely, but not young enough that he was exposed to the concept in […]