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2012 Prediction: an A-list director will fund a film on Kickstarter

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

Here’s my prediction: sometime in 2012, an A-list film director will successfully fund a feature film using Kickstarter. Kickstarter’s time has come. If you haven’t heard of Kickstarter, you’re about to. If you have, you’ll still find this interesting. Background Kickstarter was launched in 2008 as a “crowdfunding” site and it works like this: Someone who [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Feb 2011 Blog Income Report

03.01.11 Posted in Blogging, Entrepreneurship, Finances, Goals, News, Personal, Posts, Social Media by

The bloodbath continues:

Is being connected making it harder to connect?

02.22.11 Posted in Misc, Personal, Posts, Social Media, Technology by

I recently read an article by an author worrying that our smartphones and other gadgets are becoming an extension of our brains, so that when they’re not available, we’re helpless and unable to function properly. It reminded me of an experience I had while stranded on a train for three days in rural China. In [...]

21times is now DailyPath

02.10.11 Posted in Development, Education, Entrepreneurship, News, Personal, Posts, Social Media, Technology by

I wrote a post a couple months back about 21times, a new project I’ve been working on with Ben Rasmusen. We launched as a course for application developers to build and launch an app in 30 days. The response has been overwhelming, and we’re expanding in the near future. If you’re not a developer, don’t [...]

January 2011 Blog Income Report

02.07.11 Posted in Blogging, Entrepreneurship, Finances, News, Personal, Posts, Social Media by

If you’ve been reading my monthly income reports, you’d see that my goal for 2011 was to get my blog to the point where I could live off of the monthly income. In December 2010, I met my goal of 20% growth over November. Just barely, but I met the goal. If I can average [...]

Why I’m bullish on a Facebook I don’t trust

01.21.11 Posted in Future, Misc, Posts, Social Media, Technology by

I wrote a post yesterday about the uncanny valley of advertising, and how we’re currently in this weird area where advertisers know just enough about us to make it creepy, but not enough to make it perfectly relevant. I made the mistake in my post of comparing a hyper-relevant advertising service to a friend, in [...]

We’re in the uncanny valley of advertising

01.20.11 Posted in Misc, Posts, Social Media, Technology by

Image by Aaron Webb I had a good discussion with a friend today about advertising relevancy. It started because we were discussing his concerns about Facebook and how much information they have, like your social graph, taste graph, browsing habits, etc. What I found especially interesting is that his main concern is that Facebook will [...]

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