Archive for the ‘Motivation’ Category

Working out of home

You gotta do what you gotta do. When you’re a startup, sometimes that means your home is your office and vice versa. There are all kinds of advantages: saving money, no commute, good music all day, nice homemade lunch, working all morning in your underwear, etc. Of course there are some disadvantages […]

“… We slept on floors. We waded across rivers.”

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, […]

“Startups are Like Medieval Monasteries”

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 […]

No Sleep or Another Name for…

… getting the Startup Bug. It’s currently 1AM PST (as of the beginning of the writing of this post). It’s also about 30hrs till our self imposed goal of releasing what we expect to be a viral facebook app, and, eventually, a platform outside of facebook. It’s also bed-time, to get those […]

Through the looking glass.

I’ll be blunt: I’m not sure how I got here. Six months ago I was finishing up my film degree at SF State, imagining a future in directing music videos and commercials. Upon finishing school, I breathed a sigh of relief and then realized that I was completely burnt out both creatively […]

Startup - the Final Frontier…

… 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 […]