11 Things I Wish I Knew When I Started My Business

Glitter was literally shooting out of my eye sockets as I quit my PR job to “be my own boss.” Then reality struck.

The Design Process: A Pyramid

Questions to answer before nailing your next design project.

Don’t Be a Gatekeeper

If you are somebody with an incredible amount of passion for high quality, you may be compelled to become a gatekeeper…

The Secret to Designing the Right Product

I will tell you how to build the best product.

The myth of the brainstorming session

Why you can’t schedule creativity

10 of the best growth hacks of all time

#1 Paypal’s friend referral bounty

My Employees Reviewed me, and I Kind of Suck

Reconciling Your Shortcomings is Tough Stuff

Eradicate the startup pitch event

Why pitch events reinforce the wrong things and what we could do…

Postmortem of a Venture-Backed, Acquired Startup

Lessons learned from Decide.com

How we crack the chicken and the egg problem

Hatching a Design Marketplace from Scratch at Visually