Archives
All the articles I've archived.
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I'm Joining Eaze
I'm joining Eaze's engineering team next week and moving to San Francisco
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I'm Shutting Down Valet.io Today
Two years after founding my first company it's time to move on
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Understanding Open Source Communities
There is no "open source community"
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Six Months as a Dropout
What I've learned about life and startups in six months as a full time founder and college dropout
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How to Start Contributing to Open Source
Open source lets you give back and learn more. The hardest part is getting started.
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Sucking Less at Business Development
How I'm re-engineering my relationship habits
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The Open Default Principle
How sharing everything helps me beat the gatekeepers
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In Defense of Knowing Less
Learn and do more by letting go of your impulse to know everything
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Collaborating Asynchronously to Get More Done
How applying a software design principle made work meaningful again
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Why I Didn’t Apply to Y Combinator
Why I Didn’t Apply to Y Combinator
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The Future is Service-Oriented
It’s easier than ever to build distributed applications—start now
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The 5 a.m. Principle
Getting up early makes me more creative, but you don’t need to wake up early to take advantage
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How Citi Bike Salvaged a Botched Launch
Why you might want to reconsider "launching"
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When No One's Looking
When No One's Looking
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5 Reasons Why My Company Will Fail
And why those failures won’t teach me anything
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Going All In
I’m leaving school and depending on my company’s success. And that still scares me.
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The Myth of the Costless Startup
Early capital matters to student startups as much as any other
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Thinking Big and Small
Put productivity tools to work for you, not the other way around.
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Entrepreneur Interviews: Greg Skloot
I chat with Greg Skloot, now founder of Attendware, about how he turned Northeastern's entrepreneurship club into a powerhouse.
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Entrepreneur Interview: Dan Shipper
I talk with Dan Shipper, blogger and founder of Firefly, about Dorm Room Fund and the case against dropping out.
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Entrepreneur Interview: Jack McDermott
I talk with Jack McDermott about Rough Draft Ventures and building companies that fulfill real needs.
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Entrepreneurship is a Mindset
The intro to my brief but very worthwhile discussion series with student entrepreneurs.