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No Silver Bullets: Etsy’s Randy Hunt on Product Design
While on my Peru Trip earlier this year, I read a great book called Product Design for the Web: Principles of Designing and Releasing Products for the Web. As one of two interaction designers who...
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Training Makes it Possible
(Reading via email? Click through to watch the videos) Have you ever looked at someone who was really good at what they did and felt a little daunted? Maybe it’s how they seem to easily make...
View ArticleTest Your Startup Idea with a Minimum Viable Transaction
The entire startup world owes Eric Ries a huge high five for everything he’s contributed to our understanding of how startups are created and grown. One term that he coined back in 2009, minimum viable...
View ArticleHow a Potluck Brunch Led to My New Job at Percolate
Update: I realize this post makes it seem like moving to a new city and landing an awesome job was a walk in the park. It wasn’t. There was definitely lots of long days of networking, doing consulting...
View ArticleEverything you wanted to know about the Presidential Innovation Fellowship...
I had the good fortune of serving as a Presidential Innovation Fellow at the Smithsonian, building and launching a crowdsourced transcription website at the Smithsonian that’s leveraged thousands of...
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24 Ideas From Scott Berkun About Tech, Leadership, and the Future of Work
One of the few people who can match Paul Graham as writer is Scott Berkun. They have both succeeded as technologists, Graham in Viaweb + YC, and Berkun in Microsoft and Automattic. They both write...
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Four Total Body Workouts When You’re Short on Time
Disclaimer: I’m not a doctor and this is not a substitute for professional medical advice. You know the drill: attempt these workouts at your own risk. Finding time to work out when you’re working a...
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How Startup Ideas Can Be Modeled Like Chemical Reactions
I’m sometimes envious of people who studied subjects in college that correspond to their actual careers. Finance majors who become bankers. Computer Science majors who become software engineers. Must...
View ArticleHow Has Your Perspective Changed? (My 28th Birthday Question Giveaway)
A few years ago, I started a birthday tradition on this blog, where I ask readers to respond to a question, and give away a sweet prize. When I turned 26, I asked “What’s one thing you wish you knew...
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Highlights from Startup School NYC 2014
I recently attended Y Combinator’s first Startup School in New York City. It was held at the Best Buy Theater near Times Square and was MC’ed by Alexis Ohanian (who told us there were in fact 28 YC...
View Article12 Enterprise SaaS Startup Lessons Learned in 120 Days at Percolate
Four months ago, I joined the marketing team at Percolate, a marketing technology platform. We work with brands like GE, Mastercard, Unilever to help them plan, create, publish, and analyze their...
View ArticleInsights on the Xerox Story From Bill Gates’s Favorite Business Book
When he met Warren Buffet in 1991, Bill Gates asked what his favorite book was. The legendary investor replied that it was Business Adventures, a collection of twelve business articles written by John...
View ArticleThe Best and Worst Parts of Peter Thiel’s New Book: Zero to One
In spring of 2012, Peter Thiel, cofounder of Paypal and Palantir and early investor in Facebook, taught a course at Stanford in the Computer Science department called CS183: Startup. One of the...
View ArticleYou Had One Job…
A few months ago, Rick Webb, co-founder of The Barbarian Group, joined my company Percolate as VP of People Operations. Rick is a top candidate for being the most interesting man in the world,...
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Create Moments of Victory
We make comparisons between business and sports all the time. We talk about hitting a home run, taking more shots, playing defense. But one of the challenges of business, compared to sports, is the...
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Three Days with MaGIC and Malaysia’s Emerging Startup Community
Inspired by Silicon Valley, many cities and nations around the world are trying to build startup and technology hubs – to spur innovation and economic development. In Asia, Shenzhen, Singapore,...
View ArticleThe Ultimate Guide to Hiring (or Getting Hired as) a Content Marketer
Note: If you’re a phenomenal content marketer based in NYC, my team at Percolate wants to talk to you. Learn more about how we work and ping me if you’ve got any questions. If you’re a giant consumer...
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High Stakes: Lessons Learned Organizing a Women’s Speaker Event
About two weeks ago, I helped organize an event in NYC called Lessons Learned. Held at the Young x Able popup shop in Nolita, we had 11 women share 5 minute talks about pivotal moments in their...
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Book Notes on Your Turn by Seth Godin [#WkofBks]
I love reading books, and but I know I can easily forget what I’ve read if I don’t document the ideas somewhere. Luckily, this blog helps with that. Some book blog posts I’ve done in the past include:...
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Reading Notes on How to Make Sense of Any Mess by Abby Covert
These are my reading notes on How to Make Sense of Any Mess, and the second installment of #WkofBks as part of the #YourTurnChallenge! The Book in a Nutshell: The human race is creating more...
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