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Launching My First Incubated Startup Today 11 Jan 2011 | 09:11 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 acc...
Interviewed by GenJuice 31 Dec 2010 | 11:32 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 16 Jun 2010 | 03:35 am
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 | 10:58 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 | 07:18 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 us w...
How to Have a Better Startup Networking Event 6 Mar 2010 | 08:24 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 | 09:39 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 | 06:52 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 shows...
Awared 4th place at the CSUA Hackathon 11 Feb 2010 | 08:46 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 | 11:18 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...
