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Launching My First Incubated Startup Today 11 Jan 2011 | 04:11 pm
Here’s what I’ve quietly been up to for the second half of 2010: Slipstream . It’s my first incubated startup and I’m proud to announce that it’s launching today. In July 2010, I was the first one a...
Interviewed by GenJuice 31 Dec 2010 | 06:32 am
Wow, I’ve been heads down working and very quiet for a while. Get a peek at what I’ve been up to in my GenJuice interview .
Metrics Showdown: Mixpanel v. KISSmetrics v. Google Analytics 15 Jun 2010 | 11:35 pm
NOTE: This post describes Mixpanel, KISSmetrics, and Google Analytics as I used them in Spring and Summer 2010. At least Mixpanel has changed substantially since then. I’m planning to do an updated po...
Is Your Landing Page Just Collecting Email Addresses? 6 Jun 2010 | 06:58 pm
Most new product landing pages suck because they miss out on opportunities to learn more from people. Your page can articulate a great value proposition with clear benefits, strong credibility, clean ...
I Want to Make Twitter More Relevant for You 19 Mar 2010 | 03:18 pm
Twitter is the latest culprit in making information overload an even bigger problem than before. And between geolocation , the real-time web , and firehose this & that , the amount of info coming at u...
How to Have a Better Startup Networking Event 6 Mar 2010 | 03:24 pm
Monday I attended Entrepreneurs Helping Entrepreneurs, a networking event sponsored by the Mayfield Fund and First Round Capital. Roughly 100 founders were invited to come network over finger food and...
3 Ways to Fail at Customer Development 24 Feb 2010 | 04:39 pm
For the last few weeks, I’ve been auditing Steve Blank and Eric Ries’ Customer Development and the Lean Startup class at UC Berkeley. I’ll discuss the class as a whole in another post but I wanted to ...
Firefox 4 Home Tab Concept 14 Feb 2010 | 01:52 pm
I just submitted an entry for the Mozilla Labs Design Challenge Winter ’09 . It deals with the new home tab in Firefox 4. The home tab will replace the home button as a persistently open tab that show...
Awared 4th place at the CSUA Hackathon 11 Feb 2010 | 03:46 pm
I had a great time this last weekend at the CSUA Hackathon on the UC Berkeley campus. Basically, about 100 people got together for 18 hours (from 6 pm Friday to noon Saturday) to build the coolest thi...
Intel Youth Rock Stars Summit Recap 4 Feb 2010 | 06:18 am
I had a great time at Intel HQ last Friday. I didn’t know what to expect but I walked away surprised that the big chip maker is a lot more than just a big chip maker. They’re investing a lot in resear...
