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02.01.12 Posted in Development, Entrepreneurship, Misc, News, Personal, Posts, Technology by

I launched SignPad, my first iOS app, last week (iTunes link) and I’ve gotten a lot of questions and feedback. I’m planning on releasing one app per month for the remainder of 2012, as well as updates and enhancements for SignPad and the other upcoming apps. So I’m launching a little club and since I’m [...]


SignPad is live in the App Store!

01.30.12 Posted in Development, Entrepreneurship, Goals, News, Personal, Posts, Technology by

I’ve been doing web development full-time for the last four or five years, and in 2010 I started learning how to create iPhone and iPad apps. I switched to doing iOS development fulltime in early 2011 and I worked on a number of client apps throughout the year. However, I haven’t released any apps of [...]


Check out the new DailyPath Trail Guide (a daily guide to moving forward)

01.25.12 Posted in Blogging, Entrepreneurship, Goals, Habits, Misc, News, Personal, Posts, Social Media by

Very quick note, just wanted to give you all a heads up that my startup (DailyPath) today launched The DailyPath Trail Guide, which is a blog with short posts on self-learning, productivity, motivation, lifehacking, and moving your life forward. Check out our first post below, and make sure you subscribe! How Cheating Has Opened the [...]


How can I be a better presenter?

01.19.12 Posted in Entrepreneurship, Personal, Posts, Technology by

I mentioned yesterday that I spoke earlier this week in front of a few hundred investors, press, and curious onlookers about my startup DailyPath. If you’re curious about DailyPath, you can check out the video of my talk below (it’s just a few minutes long). Overall, I’m pretty happy with the way it turned out, [...]


6 Lessons from Four Months in the PIE Startup Incubator

01.17.12 Posted in Entrepreneurship, Personal, Posts, Technology by

Two upfront warnings: first, this post is long. Second, this post is about my experience in a startup incubator over the last four months or so, so it might not be relevant to you. However, I think many of the takeaways can be applied to other situations. Background For the last four and a half [...]


Expect the worst of people

06.16.11 Posted in Entrepreneurship, Inspiration, Posts, Social Media, Technology by

I’ve been doing freelance web development for four years, I was a product manager at a major Internet company before that, and I’ve been building products of my own for the last five years. I’ve also spent a ton of time exploring products and ideas that fellow entrepreneurs have launched. So I’ve spent a lot [...]


Don’t accept no from someone who can’t say yes

06.15.11 Posted in Achievement, Education, Entrepreneurship, Goals, Misc, Personal, Posts by

I’ve been meaning for some time to write a post about my experience in the Navy and what it’s meant for my life. This isn’t that post, but I was recently reminded of something that a senior non-commissioned officer told a group of us once about navigating bureacracy. Being a large government organization, the Navy [...]


What the $1.5 trillion Federal budget deficit taught me about time management

06.15.11 Posted in Achievement, Entrepreneurship, Goals, Personal, Politics, Posts, Time management by

I was listening to NPR today and they talked to a writer from Newsweek (whose name I didn’t catch, unfortunately) about this year’s $1.5 trillion Federal budget deficit. Everyone says we should fix it, but we can’t come to any sort of agreement on how. Since the vast majority of the population receives some benefit [...]


How we paid 50 strangers $5 to pick our startup name

03.04.11 Posted in Entrepreneurship, Misc, Posts, Social Media, Technology by

The startup I cofounded with Ben Rasmusen recently underwent a name change from 21times to DailyPath. We had chosen 21times as a placeholder, and weren’t entirely thrilled with it. Then when we couldn’t secure the 21times.com domain name, we started looking at alternatives. We spent some time looking for names that a) we liked and [...]


Take nothing for granted

03.03.11 Posted in Education, Entrepreneurship, Future, Goals, Inspiration, Posts, Science by

The NY Times ran an article this week about Natalie Portman and her talents as a high schooler. Not her acting talents, mind you (though she had plenty of that), but her skills in…science. Yes, that’s right. Even after being cast in multiple roles opposite actors like Julia Roberts, Uma Thurmon, and Jack Nicholson, she [...]


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