Weekly insights from an Entreprenuer: To spend one year as a tiger is better than to live forever as sheep
Because you’re frustrated with some problem or inefficiency and you think you know how to solve it. You see other people suffering and it pains you. You need to solve it. And you need to solve it now. Too many people are into the “startup thing” for the wrong reasons. Money, power, impact, influence, social [...]
Startup people are rare. Actually, I take that back. People that dabble in startups (side project here and there) – plenty. People that are willing to risk everything and go at it full force – rare. So what is it that makes someone a “startup junkie”? Here’s what I’ve gathered from observing successful startupers: You [...]
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 [...]
I’ve been excitedly anticipating the launch of Glassdoor, partly because it’s led by my old mega boss Rich and partly because I knew it was going to be very close to what EggSprout is trying to do. It is. And they’re definitely doing some really cool stuff. In their own words, “Glassdoor gives you an [...]
I need to head over to the Seattle Tech Startup meeting in 10 minutes, so I’ll make this a quick post. Even though all the presentations at the meetings are really informative, the best thing about these meetings is definitely the networking. Every entrepreneur I’ve talked to has met someone through someone through someone else [...]
One month after I took my first step to start my new adventure, I wrote a quick recap about what I’ve been up to. In keep with that tradition, I figured it’d be cool writing up a recap for month #2. When I left Zillow, I wrote down some simple goals for myself: Become a [...]
Today, I spent the ENTIRE day on powerpoint. PM’s get made fun of all the time for their seemingly lack of any skills at all. Everytime I talk to one of my developer buddies, I always get the same old question. “So what DO you do anyways?” And then they go on and on about [...]
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