Why it’s time to move toward usage-based billing structures in SaaS People give credit to Thomas Edison for inventing the first commercially viable light bulb and advocating for the commercialization of direct current. …

I had a weird feeling while descending into San Francisco. It was a mix of excitement and gitiness, but also a little bit of worry — I usually half-joke that I’ve never been out to California before because I was afraid I’d never leave. …

This post is a part of the Intask to Education series where I’m exploring the changing relationship between education and work. You can read the first post here. Students in the United States have a range of last-mile education experiences. …

This post is a part of the Intask to Education series where I’m exploring the changing relationship between education and work. You can read the first post here. Employers demand that entry-level hiring candidates have more work experience than ever before. According to a 2017 survey conducted by National Association…

Richard Xu is a great example of the diversity of change makers within the StartupIU community. Richard balances studying Finance in the Kelley School of Business, studying Violin Performance in the Jacobs School of Music, and growing the StartupIU community as a Shoemaker Scholar. Oh yea —somehow he manages to…

This post is a part of the Intask to Education series where I’m exploring the changing relationship between education and work. You can read the first post here. Until the internet, professors and instructors — key distributors of the information needed to meet the demands of the industrialized economy —…

This post is a part of the Intask to Education series where I’m exploring the changing relationship between education and work. You can read the first post here. After publishing my last post, I realized I was in way over my head. I thought I understood education’s problem. I had…

A mini-series on the relationship between last-mile education and work — In February, I ceased operations at my startup, Intask, because I learned I was chasing the wrong problem. (I also learned a lot of other stuff along the way) My vision was for Intask to leverage the growing freelancer economy and the plethora of project management and communication tools to…

A reflection on the current crypto market — This post is intended for informational purposes only and is not investment advice. It’s hard to guess if Satoshi Nakamoto could have predicted the current state of bitcoin, blockchain, and distributed ledgers. Since the release of the infamous bitcoin whitepaper in 2008, cryptocurrencies have minted a plethora of new millionaires…