As I’ve worked on my startup WinOptix, I’ve thought a lot about the mistakes I’ve made in my past startups and how I can avoid making those errors again. So I figured I’d write a few (or many) blog posts about my lessons learned. The first lesson I’ve learned has to do with how to […]
I recently listened to an episode of the podcast Seeking Wisdom where David Cancel and Dave Gerhardt from Drift talked about why you should forget about your weaknesses and focus on your strengths. Read the blog post here and listen/watch the video at the end after you finish reading this post. 🙂 This point of view certainly makes […]
Ted Leonsis has said that a successful product is either loved or needed. Your electricity provider is needed. Your Honda Civic or Toyota Corolla is needed. Airlines are needed. They certainly aren’t loved right now. Snapchat is loved but not needed. Medium is loved. We didn’t really need another blogging platform, did we? Tesla is […]
Here’s a little story about how warped my brain is from entrepreneurship, the roller coaster ride that being a startup founder is, and how my idea of a “win” has drastically changed. Over the last couple of months, I’ve been doing customer development for my startup, WinOptix. I’ve spoken to over 30 government contracting business […]
Patience and perseverance are excellent traits to have. But in certain situations, you don’t want to wait too long, or endure for too much time. I wrote a post a while ago about how raising a kid is like running a startup, and I find that patience and perseverance can apply to both as well. Being patient […]
When you’re building a product for your very early stage startup, there will always be uncertainty. The weird thing is that it can come in different forms. I’ve been part of building two startup products, even though they didn’t get very far. One was a smart calendar called Dokkit and the other is ribl. In both […]
Communities have been an enduring theme on my podcast and have been crucial to the growth of many of my guests’ businesses. While I’ve taken a break from podcasting, I continue to listen to past episodes and learn from my guests, and it’s no doubt how important communities are to their success. Being involved with […]
I didn’t blog yesterday because I was at a conference/workshop called CollabSpace Chicago: The Business of VR. And I presented our new startup, Sightpath! We are super early-stage but are excited about this product. Sightpath is an analytics platform for virtual reality app that allows app developers and product managers to truly understand the behavior […]
I was going through the airport security checkpoint this morning and the man in front of me (I’ll call him “Dude”) looked really impatient. The guy in front of him (I’ll call him “Guy”) wasn’t even moving that slowly. He was doing the typical things – taking off his shoes, putting his luggage on the […]
I recently listened to part 1 of an interview with Chris Sacca and Matt Mazzeo of Lowercase Capital on This Week in Startups. If you’re not aware, Lowercase Capital is one of the most successful seed stage investment firms in existence. Chris and Matt have invested in companies like Twitter, Uber, Stripe, Kickstarter, and many, […]