We closed our last venture, ClearGears, with $100k in the bank and a very low burn rate. We could have closed the company and returned the remaining money to investors. I decided to keep the team together because we have
Why We’re Closing ClearGears
Over the past decade, I’ve been on a mission to improve life at work. Many of my solutions are experimental and weird (MetroNaps, for example), so I expect my failures to outnumber my successes. It’s therefore vitally important for my
10 Products In One Year
This has been a great year for my wife Anika and me. We’re iterating super fast on products and projects to learn more each day. So far this year we’ve already built: ClearGears – a totally new redesign. RollCallMe –
My Formula For Building Fast
I just built another project from concept to launch within one week, and I’m starting to hit on a repeatable formula for the non-technical CEO to use. In this post I’ll describe the project, and then share a dialog I
How I Built a Business in a Weekend
RollCallMe.com RollCallMe.com makes it easy to collect the contact info from everyone in the room, fast, by text message. It replaces sign-up sheets and business cards at the same time. The website looks gorgeous, the system works smoothly with all
So Long Suyash
I’m extremely lucky to have met and hired Suyash Ramineni. He’s wildly qualified: he has a BS and Masters in Computer Science, is co-authoring on a book on the Linux Kernel, codes in six languages, and is a very nice
The Value of a Plan
If You Don’t Have Your Own Plan, You’ll Become Part Of Someone Else’s. My first job after college was as an Analyst at Deutsche Bank in New York City in 1998. The stock market was at its peak, banks were