Category: Blog
Obama shakes hands with the crowd.
The room awaits @BarackObama’s arrival at Facebook HQ
Q: When Should a Startup Not Accept Venture Capital? A: When It Doesn’t Need It.
A few weeks ago, I came across this gem of a question on Quora: When should a startup not accept venture capital? Most people assume that raising money is always a good thing, that it will make your business better 100% of the time. That’s not always true — in fact many entrepreneurs raise money… Continue reading Q: When Should a Startup Not Accept Venture Capital? A: When It Doesn’t Need It.
The Star Wars mural on the Fox Studios lot in LA
The Golden Rule of Moderating a Great Panel
My very first panel after joining Mashable. Great moderators all have one trait in common: they know that they aren’t there to be the show. Since I joined Mashable, I’ve moderated my share of panels about media, technology or entrepreneurship. It’s taken me a few panels to get my style down, but now it’s like… Continue reading The Golden Rule of Moderating a Great Panel
So You Want to Learn Ruby & Ruby on Rails…
Whenever I get the chance, I’ve been studying up on my programming. I taught myself PHP long ago and took classes in C during college, but that knowledge has rusted. To get my knowledge back to a respectable level, I’m learning Python, and will hopefully move into Ruby/Rails and then Objective-C, since I’d like to… Continue reading So You Want to Learn Ruby & Ruby on Rails…
Q: What Makes a Great Leader? A: Communication
I stumbled across an interesting question on Quora today: “Which makes a better leader, a person who communicates well with other people, or a person who gets the job done?” While I think the author was hoping people would say that charismatic leaders aren’t as important as specialized professionals/strategists/work horses, the comments surprisingly went in… Continue reading Q: What Makes a Great Leader? A: Communication
I killed a ninja today. True story. Cc:@Veronica
Stop Trying to Chase Success
There’s a fantastic thread on Quora that’s been grabbing some attention lately. The thread in question, If I haven’t succeeded in my mid 20s, could I be successful in the rest of my life?, hits hard on the human need to be someone special… to be important… to matter. Of course as you’d expect, the… Continue reading Stop Trying to Chase Success