A few thoughts on serendipity
Sunday’s New York Times included a column under their Ping business technology section that made a pretty convincing argument that the web and mobile technology are stamping out serendipity. Instead,
Read More »Knowledge is Half the Battle
Shaving is not something I usually think about. Every so often, I would end up clogging the razor and eventually cutting my face. After running into my friend Holly who
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3 Things I Learned at Enterprise 2.0
Selling into the Enterprise is still a big business. I attended the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston this week. Besides the excellent booze and hors devours (I consider all free
Read More »I got my first job offer! Now what?
Congratulations! You aced the phone screen, survived the (potentially grueling) interviews, and your offer letter is in the mail. Awesome! You should absolutely go out to celebrate, but before you
Read More »How Dating Led to Baydin: Understand Your Users
Before Baydin, Alex and I started another venture. Without going into too much detail it was a mobile, social game with an end goal of making users feel camaraderie with
Read More »Startup Social Anxiety Disorder
What do an irrational fear of rejection, the inability to talk to girls at a bar, and a startup in “stealth mode” all have in common? I was riding the
Read More »Someone Else's Shoes
I was at a talk, recently, where the speaker mentioned “a lot of data driven people fall into the trap of wanting more information to make a decision. The problem
Read More »How cheap should we be?
As Baydin has started, I’ve heard a number of different voices on how cheap a startup should be. Those voices have almost universally concentrated toward the extremes – they advise
Read More »Effective Phone Interviews
Alex and I spent some portion of our time phone interviewing potential interns for the summer. Unfortunately, the resume is often an inaccurate indicator of one’s programming ability. In a
Read More »When You are THE MAN
Our friends have asked us if we were nervous about going out on our own, especially with the economy as it is. Alex and I have wanted to do our
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