With The Band

Early stage incubators are hot now.
A couple months ago LaunchBox Digital was announced. Now a new one is launching in the mid-Atlantic area. Hello DreamIt Ventures!
Modeled on organizations such as Y Combinator in Silicon Valley and Boston, and TechStars in Boulder, Colo., it plans to raise a fund of $350,000 to $500,000 to provide eight […]

“The trouble with the first time entrepreneur is that he doesn’t know what he doesn’t know. After a failure he does know what he doesn’t know and can beat the hell out of people who still have to learn.”
Via VC Confidential

I’m not a networker. I’ll give you a second to get over the shock.
I’ve always operated under the impression that in the technical world, doing great work far outweighs who you know and who knows you, and that “networking” is left to the business types. In the corporate world, this holds true. You do good […]

I’m sitting here tonight on the brink of launching. The problem is, I’ve been like this for months.
Any geek with a few hours free and a web host (I have 3+) can throw together a web application. Take an idea you have, or just find one online. Buy a domain name for it, upload it, […]

I had been planning on writing my thoughts on this for a while, but spurred on by the announcement of a local tech incubator launching in the coming months, I felt it was time to write something.
Tech entrepreneurs, who dedicate so much of their lives to connecting people regardless of geographic location, still rely on […]

Having such lofty goals, and so little time to do it, maximizing my productivity is crucial. Every minute has to be devoted to doing something useful, and I have to ensure I have the mindset and the motivation to do it. You could spend hours on Lifehacker and similar sites, reading other people’s productivity secrets […]

Big changes are going on, as you can guess by the title. We still have to work out the details. It’s a lot less stress, because I no longer have to confront everything myself. But, at the same time, it introduces all the issues that arise when working with other people - trust, delegation, responsibility, […]

Background: Startup Weekend is an idea where area developers/entrepreneurs/geeks gather and, from idea selection to launch, develop a web application, and hopefully start a bona fide company out of it.
DC’s Startup Weekend is this weekend. I never signed up because of various other commitments going on, but I am proud to be a cosponsor of […]

It’s commonplace among technical entrepreneurs to have a form of ADD when working on web applications.
You sell yourself (and maybe one or two others) on a great idea, pursue it ruthlessly for some short period of time, then, just as it is nearing completion, hit a wall (like advertising it) or come up with […]

There’s nothing more satisfying these days than someone liking your idea. Loving it is even better. Especially if they are someone who knows their stuff, knows what to do, and knows who to talk to. It validates all the sweat equity you’ve put in to your work.
Can’t wait.