Ideas

The value of engineering education

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

I spent most of this weekend refreshing and learning a few things in UNIX, and I kept thinking about two points: It’s great to know how to teach one’s self It’s great that there’s this thing called the “internets” to help Point #2 is something I want to revisit later. Using the internet as a [...]

Two Ideas for the NY Startup Scene

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

Tonight, I attended the second meeting of the Columbia Venture Community. As I wrote in my original post about the group, CVC is exactly the type of group that Columbia needs. In fact, it’s actually only part of what Columbia and the greater New York City startup scene needs. Now, I’ve never lived or worked [...]

Get to the net first

Sunday, June 1st, 2008

Early entrepreneurs are typically just brimming with ideas. There’s almost too many of them. You might know you want to start a business. The real trouble is knowing which one, or better, which part of which one? You might know you want to start a website, but it’s tempting to imagine your site 3 years [...]

Keys to Success: Funding

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

A topic top of mind for any starving entrepreneur is the funding of the venture. In this post, I will try to cover some of the more straightforward options. 1. Self-funding: If you are employed, or have any sort of income, some of that can be used to fund your idea. Depending on your circumstance, [...]

Back up. What the feed are you talking about?

Friday, May 23rd, 2008

To all those who’ve been writing recently about the future of the web and where it’s going next, I say, “hold on a second.” I’m not sure that everyone knows where we’re at. I’m not sure everyone knows what’s been created so far. I think there are a lot of basic, valuable tools that are [...]