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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 [...]


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, [...]


Please take a moment to tell Congress to stop SOPA and PIPA

01.18.12 Posted in News, Personal, Politics, Posts, Technology by

Yesterday, I had the privilege of addressing an audience of hundreds of people to tell them about my startup DailyPath, and how we’re using the power of the Internet to help thousands of users learn and accomplish new things so they can build a better life. I’m very excited about DailyPath and the opportunity we [...]


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 [...]


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 [...]


Time vs money as a freelancer

02.28.11 Posted in Finances, Goals, Personal, Posts, Technology by

One of the things I love about freelancing is that it gives me an immense amount of flexibility in choosing how much of my time to monetize. People often talk about the value of their time, but until you freelance, that concept might be hard to really understand. When you work 40 hrs a week [...]


Why we don’t teach ourselves more new things

02.23.11 Posted in Education, Entrepreneurship, Goals, Inspiration, Posts, Technology by

Over the last few weeks, I’ve been digging deeper into doing mobile application development for iPhones and iPads, which can be a frustrating experience to start with. It’s made me realize how long it’s been since I really had to struggle with learning something. I don’t mean that in an egotistical way, just that I [...]


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 [...]


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