Finding a co-founder for your startup
Update: this list is now being maintained on it’s own page: Finding a co-founder Someone recently contacted me at MicroMentor with a few questions about their startup, including, how to proceed without a business partner. I told him he should probably find one...
Book Review: Build the Fort: Why 5 Simple Lessons You Learned as a 10 year-old Can Set You Up for Startup Success by Chris Heivly
This is a short and sweet book that compares the act of starting a company, a startup, with that of building a fort. It’s a very enjoyable read with the childhood stories of building a fort and it reminded me of those days in which it seemed easier to find a...Startup Weekend Lausanne 2011
This past weekend I participated in the Startup Weekend Lausanne 2011, my first startup weekend ever. It was amazingly interesting. I worked on an application called Eneo. Eneo allows you to talk with people around you using your mobile phone, people that you...What is a "startup project"?
I’m (hopefully) creating a term: “startup project”. A startup project is a project done on the side, not setting up a company, with or without partners, with the intention of one day becoming a startup. I don’t have a startup, but I have many...Currently working on:
MoviePal
Spend less time choosing, and more time watching movies.
MoviePal helps you and your partner or your friends choose what movies to watch. It’s a social network that lets you connect with friends, rate movies, get recommendations, run watch parties, keep your list of movies to watch, etc.
Bestie
Don’t ask for help,
get help.
It’s an app to help friends check in on each other. Periodically it will ask: Are you okay? If there’s no response it will alert your friends to reach out to you. When you are down, all you need to do is nothing.
I'm writting a book...
Building and Managing
Distributed Teams
In this book I distill the techniques and methods that I’ve been using and advising others to use to successfully run distributed teams and whole companies. This book will be short, to the point, tactical, and have tool recommendations.
