Archive of stories published by The Frontier

The Costs of Growth

This essay is the first in a series documenting lessons learned from my time at Electric Objects. Follow me on Medium to find out when the next essay is published.

The challenging reality of building a hardware business is that growth is expensive. Each new customer…


Lessons from Electric Objects

I spent an incredible four years of my life working on Electric Objects. It was an exercise of passion, a product that needed to exist, and it brought together an extremely talented group of people that I was lucky to call my teammates.


Startup Dogma

This essay is the second in a series documenting lessons learned from my time at Electric Objects. Follow me on Medium to find out when the next essay is published.

Electric Objects was born out of a problem that I encountered and felt personally.


The Hardware Fundraising Trap

This essay is the fourth in a series documenting lessons learned from my time at Electric Objects. Follow me on Medium to find out when the next essay is published.

In response to yesterday’s essay about belief and venture capital, Hunter Walk posed a…


The Gods of Belief

This essay is the third in a series documenting lessons learned from my time at Electric Objects. Follow me on Medium to find out when the next essay is published.

In The New New Thing, Michael Lewis follows Jim Clark in the late 90’s through the creation of three…


Doing The Job

This essay is the fifth in a series documenting lessons learned from my time at Electric Objects. Follow me on Medium to find out when the next essay is published.

In a recent email exchange with one of my former teammates, we reflected on the caliber of people we were able to…


Product/Market Balance

This essay is the final of a six-part series documenting lessons learned from my time at Electric Objects.

Writing and publishing these essays has been cathartic. The process has helped me find clarity in an otherwise murky experience, and I’m glad to hear from…

These were the top 10 stories published by The Frontier; you can also dive into yearly archives: 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018.

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