In case you don’t know, my co-founder is a woman, Tracy Grover. Normally, I don’t think much about her gender and as she likes to tell me, I’m pretty good “for a guy” in how I treat women. But as I’m quickly learning, it seems to pay to care about her gender because there’s a [...]

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Proving that start-ups are a rollercoaster, today had a (small) downer and a big upper:
A contracting assignment didn’t materialize. There’s lots to learn from this experience but it mostly boils down to knowing what you can and can’t affect, the culture of a client, and using this understanding to shortcut lots of discussion that waste [...]

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Well the life of a stay-at-home entrepreneur is filled with endless stretches of time in his pajamas while he’s working on:

Find an engineering manager who also loves to code, knows mobile, is entrepreneurial…
Make the perfect pitch, practice it for the next two days straight, present at new VC firm on Thursday (more on that in [...]

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