Category: Random

There seems to be a generally well agreed upon method for promoting events on social media. Take a gander at the following resources and notice what they have in common, which strategies stand out to you, and make a decision on how you want to proceed: How to Promote Your Business Events on Facebook (Forbes) […]

Imagine a social grocery shopping experience, one in which you interact directly with the farmer’s who grow the produce your purchasing, where you’re surrounded by music and good atmosphere, and where you might run into and spend time with friends. That’s what a Farmer’s Market is. Today, I experienced 7 distinct ways to enjoy the […]

Check out LATechEvents.com for more tech & startup events in Los Angeles! Am I missing events? Post them in the comments and I’ll add them right away! The best way to get events in your inbox is subscribing to the LA Startup Digest. Disclaimer: I think the curator Matthias Galica aka emcee de Beastmode.fm is a G. […]

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. […]

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 […]

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) […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]