April 2012
1 post
Venice Tech Entrepreneurs
After going to pretty much every tech related event in LA for a couple of months, I was shocked that there were no events in the burgeoning Venice Beach area. I live in Venice and love it here and I know of a ton of great startups and established companies (i.e. Google) based here , so there was only one thing to do, organize a meetup.
http://www.meetup.com/Venice-Entrepreneurs-Meetup/
Our...
December 2011
1 post
anyhan asked: Thank you for putting together such a great resource. Do you happen to know if there's a similar website that tracks startup events in New York City? I haven't found one yet. Thanks.
November 2011
4 posts
Asking the tough question in Customer Development
“On a scale from 1 to 10, 1 being ‘definitely not’ 10 being ‘fuck yeah’, how likely would you be to use this product?”
I know I always get that strange feeling in the stomach when I ask this questions at the end of a solution or MVP interview. And you know that the person sitting on the other side of the table is most likely feeling the same (not always). The...
Impressions of LA startup scene
Coming to LA from Sydney to work on Play Entourage has been quite an adventure. I’ll talk about this adventure in another post as I want to focus on my experience with the LA startup scene so far.
First thing EVERYONE here asks me is “Why LA? Why not San Francisco?”. My initial answer was that I had a feeling this was a startup community that’s on the cusp of breaking into...
How many people do you need for each cycle of...
Being a bootstrapped entrepreneur, you are pretty much short on all resources. This is a huge challenge but at the same time it forces you to trim fat wherever possible. I like being bootstrapped, I feel like I’ve got an “environmentally friendly” entrepreneurial existence. It’s quite cathartic.
So, since I love Customer Development and find a ton of value in interviewing...
October 2011
1 post
