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“There are no rules. Don’t let anyone tell you any different.” -Jim Everingham Perhaps the biggest lesson I learned––though I struggle with it still––from my first startup experience was: YOU ARE ALONE. You are Cortez at the shores of Veracruz....
Business
“You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.” -Steve Jobs It’s easy to forget that lesson sometimes.
Business
“How are you going to win? It’s not going to come from blog posts or angel money – it’s going to come from having a great product and lots of customers who want to buy it. That’s what we should be focusing on. What is it going to take to make that happen?...
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Tomorrow is one of my old co-founder’s birthday. My phone reminded me. Unfortunately, we no longer speak. The end of SpeakerText was neither fun nor pretty. We fought over the scraps, echoing that old adage about academia: Academic politics is the most vicious...
Business
I am the founder of a beer & booze delivery service called Swig! We partner with licensed brick & mortar retailers to sell their booze online in the Swig! marketplace. It’s my first attempt at running a truly “lean” startup. When we built...