Yohei Nakajima

Author: Yohei

  • Three Most Underutilized Marketing Strategies for Early-Stage Startups

    Disclosure: We have a  one-day workshop coming up with Sean Percival at Coloft that focuses on these three marketing tactics. Regardless of whether you join us for the workshop, I think you’ll benefit from knowing these strategies exist. I had the chance to chat with Sean Percival, who recently joined the Distribution Team at 500 Startups where […]

  • Publishing a Website Using Google Spreadsheets

    Since spreadsheets and databases are pretty much the same thing, I thought it would make sense to have a web publishing platform built on Google Spreadsheet. After taking a look around, I’m having difficulty finding anything. I checked out the Google Spreadsheet API, and they seem to have all the functionality you need to build […]

  • LA Tech/Startup Event Calendars

    Are you organizing an event for the LA tech/startup community? The best way to get the word out about your event is partnering with people/organizations that have a reach to your community, ideally those with large and engaged mailing lists. That being said, you should get your event listed on all the tech/startup focused event […]

  • Celebration Nation

    We are the citizens of celebration nation, we walk this world with an attitude of gratitude, our friends and foes, from their head to their toes, every single mood, every type of food, every day of the year, both love and fear, both sun and rain, both pain and gain, we thank them all, ’cause […]

  • What Is “The American Dream”?

    Guy Kawasaki suggests that startups ditch the mission statement and instead have a mantra, a phrase with three or four words. It’s purpose is to help employees truly understand why the organization exists. A mantra creates a cohesive context for discussion, helps drive decision-making, and is a constant reminder of a shared goal. The United […]

  • Four Thousand Years of World History on One Infographic

    This thing blew my mind so much I had to just post it. Makes you realize how long we’ve been on this planet, how baller the Romans were, and how new the United States is.

  • Streamlining Process – How Long Should You Spend?

    Trying to decide if you should spend time making a process you repeatedly do more efficient? Think about how often you do the task and how much time you can shave off if you make it more efficient. Then, look inside the table to see how long you’re allowed to work on the initial workload […]

  • Brushing Up On Coding Chops

    I just built a log-in, sign-up functionality from scratch using PHP/MySQL this past week. There’s so much logic built into something that’s seemingly so simple! – What to do if people sign-up with a non-valid email address or password. – Checking to see if a new sign-up isn’t using an email address already registered. – […]

  • The 7 Questions That Tell You Who You Are

    I like the 7 questions posed on this Thought Catalogue article titled The 7 Questions That Tell You Who You Are. I know my answers to these questions may have been different a year ago, and may be different a year from now. That doesn’t mean that answering these questions isn’t a good exercise. It’s […]

  • In & Over My Head

    I’m about to sit in on a Coloft Academy class called Elasticsearch, An Introduction. As it’s title suggests, it’s a class that introduces you to Elasticsearch, a “flexible and powerful open source, distributed real-time search and analytics engine for the cloud.” Long story short, I’m pretty lost already. Other students of this class include the […]