How Paypal and Reddit faked their way to traction

When “faking it before making it” actually works

There were several factors that contributed to YouTube becoming the #1 video sharing service on the web. But a lot of initial adoption…

Platform Thinking: The Future of Work

Building businesses in the age of the internet

Every business is an engine. It needs to do a certain set of things repeatedly to create value. If you haven’t figured out that set of repeated operations, you…

From a Mailchimp email and Wufoo form to $25k in 3 months

Got a Startup Idea? Ask These Questions First

These two questions just might save you years and years…

Blog-First Startups

Five successful startups that started as blogs

13 Thoughts on Being an Entrepreneur

I started this post off wanting to make a list of things entrepreneurs shouldn’t say, or things…

value is moving up the stack

why design is more important to the tech industry than it used to be

As happens in most industries, value creation is moving up the stack. That is, companies make money in new technology-driven arenas at…

Options 101

Joining a startup? Here’s what you need to know about employee stock options

Market first, code later

How the full-stack marketer breaks the rules to get started

I do not want to use your product

We rely on multitudes of tools and various products to help us live…