Yohei Nakajima

Author: Yohei

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • Promise Yourself These Things

    I recently came across this quote by Christian D. Larson, who is one of the driving forces of the New Thought Movement.

  • Eating Healthy

    You are what you eat, or so they say. That’s true to a certain extent. Much of what you eat is expelled through the A, through your blood, the rest circumvents. For 120 days your red blood cells live, carrying nutrients along the way. And since what you get is what you give, I give […]

  • Ruby on Rails is Awesome

    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 […]