Yohei Nakajima

Author: Yohei

  • Developing a Curriculum for Entrepreneurship

    This Summer, I have the honor of teaching an accelerator program for the Santa Monica Youth Tech Program. 14 hand picked high-school students will split up into teams and work on two civic tech startup ideas out of Coloft, 5 days a week for 5 weeks. Two hours each day, their minds are mine to […]

  • Life Is Beautiful

    Early Morning: 15 minutes of yoga, 20 minute bike ride, made & ate breakfast (omelet & banana)! I was looking at my new year’s resolutions yesterday and realized that some simple activities would tackle multiple resolutions. For example, “stress less about small things” and “maintain an awesome body” (read: work out more) can be knocked out […]

  • Santa Monica Youth Tech Academy: Day 1 of Week 2

    I know this is kind of jumping ahead because I didn’t document anything from the first week of the 5-week Santa Monica Youth Tech Program that I’m teaching this summer. But as part of today’s exercise, we had all the students type non-stop for 5 minutes. This was what I wrote up. We had an awesome […]

  • What Cooking, Burning Man, and SnapChat Have In Common

    My roommates make fun of me because I sometimes spend 30 minutes cooking a meal I devour in 5 minutes. I tell them I’m celebrating the temporary nature of art. I was introduced to this idea at Burning Man last year when I saw five story structures being burned to the ground. People spend months […]

  • Best Online Resources for Entrepreneurs, Organized.

    This will most likely always be a work in progress. Please don’t hesitate to add resources or input in the comments! I tried not to have too many services that were similar to each other, and mostly went with venture backed solutions where it existed. Hoping to turn this into a more interactive resource down […]

  • Amazing Video That Will Make You Want to Live and Experience Life.

    This 3 minute video got me pumped about being alive. I hope it does the same for you.

  • Tech Tools for People with a Startup Idea

    Here’s a few tools to get you started… First figure out what you’re trying to sell. Use Google Trends and Google Keyword Tool to identify the keywords that someone would use to find your product. This should give you a vague idea of the market, if it’s growing or shrinking, and the set of keywords […]

  • 147 Online Services for Entrepreneurs: Ver 1

    Version 1 (in no particular order): WordPress Mailchimp Eventbrite Twitter Facebook Google Drive Pinterest Instagram 1Password Hootsuite Buffer App PRweb Crunchbase Angellist Github Heroku Treehouse Codeschool Codecademy General Assembly Lynda Tuts+ Quora Google Analytics Google Keyword Tool Google Trends Google Apps Godaddy Bluehost Tumblr Flickr iStockPhoto Elance Odesk 99designs Craigslist Taskrabbit Recurly Chargify Shopify IFTTT […]

  • Online Tools for Landlords

    Rentmonitor – Simple rent collection tool. A Techstars company. Cozy – A more serious rent management tool. Has raised $1.5m. RentPost – Another rent management tool that also includes work order management. Splitwise – Great tool for splitting bills.

  • Everything is a Remix

    I just found out Eminem’s song publisher is suing Facebook and it’s ad agency, saying that in their recent ad, they stole his beats from “Under the Influence.” Then, the ad agency is saying Dr. Dre took the beat from Michael Jordan’s “Give It To Me.” Listening to all three, you’ll find the similarities uncanny. […]