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How to Import an Existing Git Repository into GitHub 25 Apr 2013 | 12:00 pm
Recently I’ve had to move a number of private git repositories off a private server and onto GitHub. Here’s how to do that. (Based on GitHub’s own howto, but with a bugfix.) 1. Make a bare clone of ...
Engineering Teams on Twitter 27 Mar 2013 | 11:00 am
If you are like me and want to learn from the engineering organizations at other startups, here’s a list of Twitter accounts to follow. Startups @AirbnbNerds (Airbnb) @codeascraft (Etsy) @gilttech...
Great Team, Great Product, Great Space 15 Mar 2013 | 11:00 am
This parody of venture capitalist email boilerplate by Harj Taggar of Y Combinator is hilarious, brutal, and by all accounts, accurate. Like the VC world, the angel investing community has its own bo...
Angel Investing Mistakes 8 Nov 2012 | 01:00 pm
A history of miscalculations, forced errors and other mistakes I’ve committed during my first 2.5 years of angel investing in tech startups, and what I’ve learned from them: Mistake #1: Nitpicking on...
Angel Investing Mistakes 8 Nov 2012 | 01:00 pm
A history of miscalculations, forced errors and other mistakes I’ve committed during my first 2.5 years of angel investing in tech startups, and what I’ve learned from them: Mistake #1: Nitpicking on...
Early Startup Time Wasters 5 May 2012 | 12:00 pm
A major difference between launching a brand new startup and working on one that’s a year or two old is quality of shot selection. Every day begins with 1,000 doors in front of you: which door do you ...
Traction Role Models 8 Apr 2012 | 12:00 pm
In the middle of building a startup, I’ve found it helpful to have what I call traction role models. These are friends and contacts at other startups whose businesses have climbed one or two rungs hi...
Algorithmic Trading is Not High Frequency Trading 13 Sep 2011 | 12:00 pm
It’s not every day I come across a widely-shared article whose first sentence is factually incorrect, but a 9/9/11 story in Computerworld UK, “Algorithmic stock trading rapidly replacing humans, warns...
Baby Hacks 6 May 2011 | 12:00 pm
Lesser known technology hacks pertaining to life with a baby or toddler: OhLife OhLife is an online journal for your inbox. How it works is simplicity itself. Every day OhLife sends you an email. Yo...
Twitter Users Most Followed by Investors on AngelList 1 Mar 2011 | 01:00 pm
Updated June 21, 2013 Here is a list of Twitter accounts heavily followed by the angel investor & VC community. To create this list, I used the same methodology as an earlier post (Twitter Users Mos...
