As much as I don’t like to admit it, I consider myself an introvert. My childhood was spent traveling around the world with my parents due to my dad’s job. I’ve lived in North Carolina, Santa Barbara, Chicago & then going all the way over to Europe where I spent my teen years. That forced…
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Why You should Start a Business on Top of a Marketplace
Business is Business, software or psychical goods. No matter if you’re selling software, a house cleaning service or beef jerky there are three things you look at: product, price and who you sell it to. What people are willing to pay is easy to determine since for most businesses there’s already competition out there. If…
The Art of Never Finishing Things & My Cure for It
For the past couple of months, I’ve had the chance to travel the world while taking time off from work in order to focus on improving my physical health. Now that I’ve met the goals I set out to achieve before departing on my journey through Europe and Asia, I can’t wait to jump right…
“Treat everything like it’s your first project”
Puff told me likeThe key to this jointThe key to staying on top of thingsIs treat everything like it’s your first project, nomsayin’Like it’s your first day like back when you was an internLike, that’s how you try to treat things like, just stay hungry – Notorious B.I.G
Increased Productivity by Reducing Noise
As the New Year started to 2 days ago, I’m a little bit behind with what I promised myself to be better at in 2015, which is: shifting the balance from consuming to producing. What I mean by that is (when reflecting on 2014), I definitely feel like I spent 80% of my time researching…
Lessons Learned at DreamIt Ventures Accelerator
Have a Solid Plan Before coming into the program I would highly stress putting together a comprehensive product roadmap for the duration of the program as well as 2 months after. Start by splitting the upcoming 3 months into individual weeks & writing out goals both for the tech side (development, design, UX etc.) of…
Getting Back on Track to a Healthy & Sustainable Lifestyle
Ever since I`ve settled on the path of being a full-time developer my lifestyle changed dramatically. Over the past 4 years, I`ve been gaining weight at a steady pace, even though I`ve been to somewhat psychically active. Having completed a Tough Mudder, Spartan Race last year & being able to keep up with some of the…
Steve Blank Fireside Chat at AlleyNYC
Tonight I had the opportunity to sneak into a sold-out event at AlleyNYC , organized by Startup Grind. The guest of the evening was the one and only Steve Blank, the godfather of “Customer Development” & author of Four Steps to the Epiphany as well as The Startup Owners Manual. In most startup circles he`s regarded as the catalyst to all…
How to find a business Co-Founder
The Importance of Testing Business guys that are trying to get into the startup game are a dime a dozen. That’s why is so important to filter through the ones that are all talk, no action.Sure you could probably validate them through references, previous positions held & how well they performed at those. However, why…