Why You Should Outsource Your Startup After reading Joel Gascoigne’s article, thought I’d respond with some counter points. I agree with most of what Joel says, I just don’t think it paints the full picture. I must add the caveat that I run an agency that makes money by doing exactly what he says startups shouldn’t […]
The Death of College From Richard Linklater’s new movie “Everybody Wants Some” My partners and I are kicking off a school in November because we think the college model is broken. Students rack up debt studying a subject they aren’t sure that they’ll like. They major in something and find out later that they hate it. They’ve […]
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Thoughts On Instagram Copying Snapchat… Instagram Stories was announced yesterday and there was no shame in copying the exact name from where it was taken – Snapchat Stories. Copying has always existed in the valley… Periscope copying Meerkat, Facebook copying Twitter hashtags, Linkedin copying Facebook news feed, etc. But the admission of the copying is […]
It is Hard to Think Long Term We do an offsite work trip every year where we work (a bunch of our team is remote), have fun, and travel together (it’s been said that there’s no better way to know someone outside of traveling with them). This year we are off to New Zealand. In order […]
30 Day Writing Experiment — On Why Twitter is Dead and Always Will Be After reading a post by Brad Feld on why we should write daily in order to think I decided to give it a go for next 30 days and see where I am at that point. I make such a big deal about the […]
Facebook Messenger: The Next App Store? Facebook’s secret march madness basketball game has given us a sneak peak into how dynamic messaging can be as a platform. Messaging has been touted by VC’s as the next big thing, and Slack recently raised a large round at a $4 billion valuation. The messenger game (if you haven’t […]
The Most Depressing Post of the Year Sometimes it’s good to be sad My wife finished reading When Breath Becomes Air on a doctor who was diagnosed with cancer and quickly passed away in his early 40s. This is shortly after we both finished reading Peter Barton’s book Not Fade Away also on a business mogul who […]
Reflections on 2015 1000% business growth, heroism in South Central, crazy escapades in Europe, and the realization that it’ll never be enough As silly as it sounds, every year since 2012, I’ve noted a general theme that has marked each year before the year began. I’ve noticed that years can have their own personalities and mini stories, […]
One Formula Doesn’t Fit Them All What Homejoy’s business teaches us about the difficulty of replicating Uber Homejoy’s epic demise laid out here teaches us about the fundamental problem of trying to copy a model that works for one industry but doesn’t work for another one. If I’m hiring someone to clean my house and I […]