A new venture, WP Lookout
A few months ago I had an idea for a new tool and service that I thought could be useful to WordPress developers and agencies who manage lots of WordPress sites, but who can't or don't want to go all…
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Startup
I've just finished raising $1.5 million in investor dollars, building an office and growing a staff to start a new media company focused on narrative podcasts. Okay, not really. But I HAVE just finished listening to the first season of Alex Blumberg's podcast…
Zero to One
I thoroughly enjoyed Peter Thiel's Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future. It's one of the few "business books" I've read recently that incorporates anything resembling a coherent global ethic into thinking about what it…
Y Combinator wisdom on helping startups succeed
I just finished reading Randall Stross's The Launch Pad: Inside Y Combinator, a great accounting of the origins, growth and successes of the seed accelerator company that helps "budding digital engineers." This blog post is a little bit book review, but…