01.18.10 Posted in Blogging, Development, Entrepreneurship, Finances, Goals, Inspiration, Misc, Personal, Posts, Reviews, Social Media, Technology by Ryan W.
I recently read Crush It!: Why NOW Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion by Gary Vaynerchuk and I enjoyed it enough that I thought I’d post a short review.
For those of you who don’t know, Gary is a very successful entrepreneur who has really pushed the limits of social media [...]
11.28.08 Posted in Development, Entrepreneurship, Posts, Reviews, Social Media, Technology by Ryan W.
We’re in the middle of working out some project and process management issues for BlueSwarm, one of which is what platform to use for project management and issue tracking. We used Basecamp for awhile, which was great, but we needed something that was a bit more geared towards tracking bugs. Free would be a nice [...]
09.18.08 Posted in Finances, Posts, Reviews, Technology by Ryan W.
Ok, it’s only been a couple days since I said I was going to give Mint.com a two-week trial, but things are already looking a bit bleak in terms of Mint.com being my primary personal finance tool. Here are a few of the issues:
1. Budgeting feels like an afterthought
Budgeting and planning are pretty important parts [...]
09.16.08 Posted in Finances, Posts, Reviews, Technology by Ryan W.
I’ve been using Mvelopes.com off-and-on for the last two years, but I’ll confess that I haven’t been so good about it for the last twelve months or so. Here’s why: it sucks. It has a horribly flash interface, is ridiculously slow and clunky, has bugs, and is always having issues with downloading my account data. [...]
09.12.08 Posted in Entrepreneurship, Posts, Reviews, Social Media, Technology by Ryan W.
When I first heard that Yammer (the “twitter for business” startup) had won TechCrunch50, I had mixed feelings. On the one hand, I’ve been using Backpack’s Journal feature to do something similar with an agency that I do work with, and I immediately saw the value. It’s interesting to see what other developers or designers [...]
08.23.08 Posted in Posts, Reviews, Social Media, Technology by Ryan W.
I’m a big fan of the “release early, release often” philosophy, where you break your software into small chunks and release it to market as soon as you can, let people play with it and give you feedback, and iterate from there. The other common option is to build a huge release and push it [...]
06.02.08 Posted in Entrepreneurship, Posts, Reviews by Ryan W.
My wife and I are both self-employed consultants, we have several investment properties, and we each have entrepreneurial pursuits on the side. All of these endeavors have income and expenses that need to be tracked, not to mention our personal finances, which are currently being tracked with Mvelopes and Mint. I took a bunch of [...]
01.14.07 Posted in Finances, Posts, Reviews by Ryan W.
Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki
When I was about 19, this book changed my entire outlook on money and finances. Looking back, and reading through the book now, I see a lot that I disagree with, but it sparked my thinking about how to manage money, and what financial freedom truly means. [...]
12.15.06 Posted in Posts, Reviews, Technology by Ryan W.
My wife works at Current TV. They recently had their Christmas party, and they gave a 30gb black video ipod to every employee as a little Christmas bonus. Fortunately, I had just bought my wife a green nano a couple months ago, so she had no choice but to give me the video [...]