Weekly insights from an Entreprenuer: To spend one year as a tiger is better than to live forever as sheep
By far, THE most important thing (and probably one of the hardest) about a successful startup is finding the right co-founder. I’ll leave it for another post to discuss what to look for in a cofounder and use this one to discuss a couple reasons WHY you need one: 1) They challenge you – Your [...]
I’ve been a PM (Program manager) for the core of my career and one of the things that comes with the job is figuring out how to make things sticky. (Picture is of a glue truck that fell over and dumped it’s load everywhere haha) That’s why I was so excited when I ran into [...]
Whenever I tell anyone about what we’re working on, alot of them typically ask “How did you come up with that idea?” followed shortly by “Startup ideas are so hard to come by, everything’s been done. If I had a great idea, I’d definitely do a startup.” To which I usually respond by saying: “ARE [...]
I’m at the Bellevue Honda dealership right now and was pleasantly surprised at the exceptional customer experience here. Pleasantly surprised because I’ve been here at least 4 times a year and this is the first time I feel appreciated enough to tell people (aka blog) about it. The funny thing is that I realized it [...]
The past few days I’ve read myself to sleep everyday… with a incorporation book. I’m never going to be a lawyer… that stuff bores me to tears. But it’s SOOO important. It one of those great necessary evil things in this world – kinda like taxes. I’ve searched all over for references and books on [...]
At Zillow, occasionally, we’d have an all hands meeting to talk about Company Values. Everytime we’d have one of these, I’d be bored. Last week. I was in a weird position. My company was getting to the point where company values were becoming important. So now, it’s my turn. Man, I should’ve paid more attention. [...]
We’ve had a very busy week last week generating mockups and writing specs for our product. Lots of exciting stuff happening – I’ll blog about some of it and save the SUPER EXCITING stuff for later. I ran into Google’s User Experience Guidelines a couple days ago and thought it was really good. Here their [...]
I just finished watching BillG talk to the UW gang in a Live webcast (you can watch the archive here) and have drawn a few conclusions: UW students are idiots. At least in terms of asking questions – they were SOO lame. Seriously. UWTV has awesome technology. It took me only a couple clicks to [...]
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