Tweet Here’s To The Misfits… This is what entrepreneurship is all about. Perseverance. Not giving up. Seeing what others don’t see.
On 03.24.12, In Uncategorized, by admin
Tweet Today I decided to check out Google Plus once more, just to see if anyone I may be interested in was posting something I care about. The first thing I saw when logging into Google Plus is the suggestions. The problem? I know these people. Correction. I know exactly how I know those people. [...]
On 02.29.12, In Uncategorized, by admin
Tweet Since everyone keeps asking me for the slides of my presentation about “Co-Founder Issues”, here they are. It’s short and to the point. Even Rich Barton (from Zillow/Expedia) agreed with my views on how to split equity… Are you making one of the Top 5 Mistakes I saw so many times? Co founder issues [...]
On 02.02.12, In Silicon Valley, by admin
Tweet I have blogged several times about my experience with advertising on Facebook versus Google. And Facebook only keeps getting better. Case in point: for my latest campaign, I experimented with the “sponsored stories” option. You know what those are, Facebook shows you an ad saying “your friends X, Y and Z like this page”. [...]
Tweet Do you live in Seattle and want to raise money for your startup? Enter the pitch competition at the Startup Conference, taking place on Feb 16th, 2012 in downtown Seattle. 10 startups will be selected to give a 1-minute elevator pitch in front of the whole audience. The best 3 pitches will then qualify [...]
On 01.02.12, In Silicon Valley, by admin
Tweet One of the hottest stories of the year is the legal battle between Apple and Android. But you can’t have an intelligent discussion on that oh-so-hot topic, because the Internet troll police will smash you no matter what. Let’s be honest for a second and look objectively at the facts: 1) Yes, Samsung did [...]
Tweet Being knee-deep in reviewing pitches for the pitch competition of the upcoming Startup Conference Los Angeles, it forced me to address the key question: how do you actually win a pitch competition? Hint: it’s not about having the best idea. Case in point. What if Facebook pitched itself as a “social network where friends [...]
Tweet Startup valuation is a misunderstood and complex topic. You can spend a lot of hours trying to understand the mathematical models that attempt to give you an answer. But that’s not the right approach to understand how valuation works for your startup. It’s really not that complicated. Does this drawing make more sense? Before [...]
Tweet Do you live in Los Angeles and want to raise money for your startup? Enter the pitch competition at the Startup Conference, taking place on Nov 15th, 2011 in Marina del Rey. 10 startups will be selected to give a 1-minute elevator pitch in front of the whole audience. The best 3 pitches will [...]
Tweet A story posted on Hacker News got my blood boiling again. Why is it that software interviews always have to include questions about the complexity O(n) of algorithms? In my 20 years of programming, I may have spent 1% of my time on complexity. Maybe 10% on optimizations. Granted, I don’t work at Google [...]
