Written by Jason Putorti, a 500 Startups SuperMentor, Venture Advisor and Founder of Votizen. The post below is cross-posted from his blog.

These are the tenets I give people when they ask me how to evaluate a user experience designer for their startup. It’s not perfect, it’s…

Meet Professor X, aka 500 SuperMentor Hong Quan (@hongdquan). An entrepreneur and recruiter building cars and startups, Hong has even hired a real honest-to-goodness rockstar (#3 on Billboard charts)…

Meet one of our super-mentors, Captain Underpants (aka Dave Schappell). In his own words: “I’m the founder, CEO and door-desk-builder at TeachStreet — a Seattle-based local/learning startup, helping people find great local (and…

Meet Plastic Man aka 500 SuperMentor Charles Hudson (@chudson). Charles is the Co-Founder of Bionic Panda Games, a new mobile games startup. Prior to Bionic Panda Games, Charles was the VP of Business Development at Serious…

Meet Green Lantern, aka super-mentor Ben Lewis. Ben is a co-founder and VP of Product at Tapjoy, a platform offering mobile publishers solutions for application discovery, rich advertising, and virtual good sales. Before life as an entrepreneur, Ben was a product manager at…

Meet The Riddler, the first 500 Startups super-mentor to make an appearance on this blog. The Riddler, aka Ryan Junee, is a serial entrepreneur and start-up advisor by day. By night, he schemes complex riddles to trick fellow entrepreneurs and…

Please welcome Christen O’Brien to 500 Startups! Christen recently joined the 500 team as Director of Events. You may recognize her work in recent 500 events such as Warm Gun and SMASH Summit. Look for…

Note from Enrique Allen: Please take a quick creativity break (even if you’re super busy just write the first thing that comes to mind from any of the following prompts)…