Month: December 2012
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My 2013 New Year’s Resolutions
I recently posted a review of my 2012 resolutions. Here are my 2013 New Year’s Resolutions. I’ll type it up, print it out, and post it in my bedroom again. Wish me luck. Create more art. Understand my finances. Maintain an awesome body. Stress less about small things. Help 100 entrepreneurs. Make more strangers smile. […]
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How to Start a Blog (Part 2)
The first part was partly a to-do list, partly a live blog of what I was doing to get my blog up and running. This part is fully a live blog as I tackle Step 7 and Step 8, which is Building Out the Site and Developing a Content Strategy, respectively. ** Live Blogging Starts […]
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How to Start a Blog (Part 1)
I was inspired by Colbert Barr’s Think Traffic to start a new blog that focuses on one topic and will hopefully generate serious traffic and some revenue. If you’re wondering why I’m not simply rebranding my personal blog, that’s a good question. It’s because writing on my personal blog is therapeutic; for me, the internet (you) […]
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Top 40s Music is Awesome
I joke that I have bad taste in music because my favorite genre is “top 40s”. It’s a joke because “top 40s” isn’t a genre, just like “indie music” isn’t a genre, but rather an abbreviation for “independent music”, which by definition means “produced independently from major music labels.” Some people hate on popular music […]
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What is success? In 100 words or less.
He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much; Who has enjoyed the trust of pure women, the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children; Who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; Who has never lacked appreciation of Earth’s beauty or failed to express it; Who […]
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Review: My 2012 New Year’s Resolutions
At the beginning of 2012, I wrote down 10 new years resolutions and posted it at the exit of my bedroom so that I would see it often. On any occasion, I would be doing better at some, and less better at others. Over the course of the year, I achieved all ten to some […]
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Startup Technologies for Non-Developers
This PandoDaily article does a great job of explaining important startup technologies in plain english for non-developers. I pulled out bits and pieces for this post, but definitely check out the full article. Node.js Node.js makes it much easier, faster and efficient for your development team to do cool shit in your app in real-time […]
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LEEAP: Los Angeles Startup Ecosystem [Video]
My friend Simon Walker is doing a project called LEEAP where he travels the world’s top 10 startup ecosystems and interviewing prominent individuals to get a sense of how the cities differ from each other. He stopped by LA a few weekends ago and put together this 20 minute video for us: *featuring yours truly […]
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Coloft Academy
For those of you who don’t know this yet, I joined the Coloft team as their Academy Program Director just over a month ago. My day-to-day job is to identify and connect with amazing individuals who have the desire to share the knowledge they’ve accumulated with the tech startup community of Los Angeles. We host […]
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Brad Feld’s Startup Revolution Hub
Brad Feld just launched a social hacker news site at hub.startuprev.com/. The layout looks just like LAStartups.com. Now that it’s so easy to build and launch sites, everyones just “going for it”. Which is great, but what are the factors that make a social news site successful? Users. So the bigger reach you have, the […]