I will be giving a presentation at the Weekend Apps [http://blog.weekendapps.com/about/] event on February 22nd.  This event, which will take place over the course of 3 days, will bring together some very bright minds to build a number of [what I hope to be] excellent Facebook Applications.  Weekend Apps takes cues from the very successful […]

If you thought Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Richard Branson, and John Carmack were onto something, think again. ‘Zillionaire’ Robert T. Bigelow is fulfilling his childhood dream of putting people into space by building the first privately-owned space station. And he already has orbiting prototypes full of live critters to prove the concept: http://www.wired.com/science/space/magazine/15-11/ff_spacehotel. […]

So, on Aaron’s suggestion, I am now almost done reading Masters of Doom by David Kushner: the gripping and very inspiring tale about the guys that founded id software and their journey. This is an absolute must read for any startup founder. Told through through the eyes of John Carmack, John Romero, […]

While reading the blog of Scott Heiferman (co-founder of Meetup.com), I noticed a trackback to Marc Andreessen’s blog. Marc, in turn passed this quote on from Glenn Kelman, CEO of Redfin, who wrote on the blog of Guy Kawasaki. Anyway, now that all the introductions and credits are out of the way, I […]

Wednesday’s night event was the SF NewTech Meetup organized by Myles Weissleder. It was a good event with an amazing turnout! (Very likely attributed to Guy Kawasaki’s attendance) Here’s my evaluation:
1) Quality of Presentations: 8.5/10 (Guy Kawaski was half the show. Amazing! Mo Kakwan also had a captivated audience.)
2) Venue: […]

… or so I hope as the co-founder of a new startup. Although not meant to be a self-indulgent post, I cannot help but be very thrilled to have finally made my move from my corporate/1099 consulting life in New York to the new and very exciting landscape of Silicon Valley.
For me, it came […]