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Time to Go 24 Mar 2013 | 08:48 am
Late in May, my wife and I will be leaving home with nothing but 2 carry-on bags to travel the world for an indefinite period of time. Below I’ll talk through a few of the reasons for “jumping ship” a...
A Grand Experiment: Farewell Seattle, Hello Silicon Valley 8 May 2012 | 04:12 pm
This is a bittersweet post to write. I love Seattle. I love the people. I love the scenery. I love the startup scene and the underdog mentality. I’ve actually written data-driven posts trying to ...
Why is Apple Building “Yahoo Directories for Mobile”? 29 Feb 2012 | 03:00 pm
In the early days of the App Store, search wasn’t really that important. With relatively few apps (and very few good apps), the directory/browse experience was ideal. For those of you who were around/...
How to Evaluate a (paid) iPhone App Idea 17 Feb 2012 | 08:15 am
As I mentioned in my first post in this series, we dove into the App Store with a ($2.99) Productivity App called TouchBase Calender. It was a part-time effort as we were wrapping up other commitment...
Mobile is What’s Next (for me) 11 Feb 2012 | 08:15 am
Photo by John O’Nolan In the nearly 1.5 years since leaving RescueTime (still growing and profitable– woot!), it could reasonably be said that I’ve flailed about with my career. I’ve done a few gigs...
App Store Learnings (post 1 of 4) 2 Nov 2011 | 05:48 am
(We’re two web software geeks who decided to make a move to mobile. Our first app– built mostly on a part-time basis while we were wrapping up other commitments– is TouchBase Calendar, an iPhone Calen...
Why You’re Going to Hire the Wrong Designer 15 Sep 2010 | 07:30 am
“We are not UI experts but do know when we see a good design.” I saw this on a mailing list I occasionally read, in a post where a company was looking to hire their first design employee/contractor. ...
Anecdotal but interesting: NYC and London Up & Coming in the World of Startups? 4 Sep 2010 | 04:49 am
Every month or two, someone tosses up a “Who’s Hiring in Startups?” post on Hacker News. In my current voluntary jobless state, I’m looking at new startup ideas as well as hopping on board with pre-fu...
No, You CAN’T retire rich at 30 if you sell your startup 24 Aug 2010 | 04:26 am
I personally find the people who are in the software startup game just for the money to often be nearly delusional about their chances of success and the likely magnitude of it when it happens. Before...
Rethinking “F@#$ You Money” 3 Aug 2010 | 09:52 am
Now that I’ve stepped down from RescueTime, I’m pondering my next thing (whether it’s a product role at a very early stage startup or spinning up my own for the 3rd time). I figure it’s a good time to...
