Maps Are The New Social Network
While I am sure most people are going to think that the title of this post is cliche, I want to point out that that is not the case at all. A few years ago people started talking about mobile social...
View Articlethus you are now considered a GAP 50 finalist
A few days back I received an email from the CIT Gap Fund folks that reads as follows: “Subject: ACTION Needed: CIT’s GAP 50 CIT is celebrating Virginia’s most promising entrepreneurs through CIT GAP...
View ArticleWeddingWire Raises $25 Million in Post Series A Funding
WeddingWire, a Bethesda, MD based growth stage startup serving the wedding industry announced today that they raised a $25 million investment from Spectrum Equity. The company’s leadership team...
View ArticleBrightContext Raises $1.74 Million
Arlington, VA based BrightContext has just announced their raise of $1.74 Million in new funding. The company is in the social television space and is providing a service that makes it easier for...
View ArticleBuild Your Startup Community A Book At A Time
Right now I’m reading I’m feeling Lucky by Douglas Edwards. His book talks about how the team from Google hacked together one hell of a rack at Exodus back in the ’90′s and about the excitement that he...
View ArticleVisiting Houston & Dallas, Coworking Space Recommendations Wanted
I will be in Houston and Dallas next week and am looking for recommendations on coworking spaces. If you know a great coffee house that is a good place to cowork I would love to hear about it. The...
View ArticleSocial Matchbox Alum’s Kickstarter Project To Check Out
A few days ago I had a chance to catch up with Social Matchbox alum Chis Seline about a Kickstarter project for a game called Poker Smash. The game is best described as poker meets Tetris. He and is...
View ArticleShould I Hire A Growth Hacker For My Startup?
The tectonic plates in mobile and web application development are shifting faster than ever these days. Development used to be a about smart idea turned into project timeline with quality gates, and...
View ArticleGame Changers In Business and Technology
A few weeks ago I had lunch with another founder who has raised 20+ million for one startup and tens of millions for at least one other. He is working on a new one now. We were talking about...
View ArticleFree eBook Version of Steve Blanks The Four Steps To The Epiphany
I have recommended Steve Blank’s book, The Four Steps To The Epiphany, to a ton of startup founders building B2B products who have asked me what the #1 book that they should read is. Today I found a...
View ArticleMy Developer Conference Envy
In the last four years my world has shifted from being a founder at the helm of a services company with a side project that involves software development into that of a founder at the helm of a product...
View ArticleThe Business of Business Websites
This is a post for all of you founders out there who want to throw up a nice looking website with minimal effort. It is also the story of how I got into the business of helping founders and others to...
View ArticleWhat Programming Language Should I Learn Next to Land Great Jobs?
Earlier today, someone asked what language they should learn next – after PHP. I’m a subject matter expert on this topic so I decided to share my thoughts on this with my readers. I would love to hear...
View ArticleHow To Find A Co-Founder for My Startup
On a few different occasions, I have told people that one of the many reasons that I started SocialMatchbox was because I wanted to meet like minded people. On different days this meant different...
View ArticleHow to Interview Technical Job Candidates if You Are A Non-Technical Person
A non-technical person should stick to what they know, but not be afraid to trust their gut. There are a lot of things they can use to evaluate a technical person. Since this...
View ArticleStartup, Startup, Not-A-Startup
The definition of what a startup is and is not is a subject that I care a great deal about. I think that some folks decide to invest in creating a great workspace or a new product and because they are...
View ArticleFunding Facts & Fiction Event – This Looks Interesting
I noticed this event coming up on January 14th in Palo Alto and thought it might be interesting to those of you in the bay area for it. It looks like a great panel. Mythbusters: Funding Facts &...
View ArticleAn Open Sourced Startup Failure
Earlier today I had a chance to peruse the collection of documents associated with a recent startup failure (some information was redacted). Budget data is included in the documents. Here is a link to...
View ArticleHow To Fund and Actually Build Your Startup’s Minimum Viable Product
I feel a little sad every time I hear stories about software startup founders who have spent their life savings or wrecked their relationships in an effort to just get up to bat in the startup game. I...
View ArticleLearn to Code Bootcamps and Hacker Academies
Last week I read an article on VentureBeat about California regulators trying to reign in coding bootcamps like Hack Reactor, General Assembly and the Hackbright Academy. This is probably a move by...
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