How my Computer Science Degree Actually Hurt my Internet Business
Most online entrepreneurs that I have met are not technical people. More often than not they are visionaries with some other specialize skill set like accounting, investment banking, or general business to name a few. For these people the fears and difficulty they have is the technical stuff: putting up their website, search engine optimization, ...
Oops, I’m #1 in Google. How’d I do that?
Back in the days of 2007, before anyone knew what a “tweet” was, when Facebook was still for college kids, and before email storage space was unlimited, I needed a way to archive my funny email forwards that I got from friends and family. Well, I thought: why don’t I just start a free blog ...
How to Avoid Burnout as an Entrepreneur
I used to lift weights a bit when I was in high school. I always thought that the harder I worked the more muscle I would gain. But after a certain point I noticed that it was much harder to see gains then it was when I originally started. This only convinced me that I ...
Marketing is Like Dating
In recent weeks I’ve had a difficult time explaining to my engineering buddies how I could be into internet marketing now. They tend to equate marketing with sales, and therefore think of it as a dishonest trade. The other day I finally thought of an analogy that helped them see things from my (newly discovered) ...
Sales and Marketing Lesson for Introverts
“If you build it they will not come…” It took me a long time to actually accept that phrase. Coming from a software and engineering background, when someone would mention the word sales I would naturally think of a sleazy used car salesman. “Who needs that?” as any good engineer would say. ”Why can’t these people see that ...
How I Got 12,963 App Downloads in 8 Hours
Today our Coupon Policy App is 9 months old and continues to bring passive income month-after-month. What started as a problem, then into a weekend project has grown into an actual product with over 25,000 users. Summary Unique downloads to date: 25,000+ Emails sent: 40 (November), 12 (July) Google posts on websites posted during launch ...
Lean Startup Cheat Sheet
So I’ve been reading several books lately in an effort to reboot myself. One that I found especially interesting was Eric Ries’ The Lean Startup. As I read, Eric’s words resonated with many of the past mistakes I have made. In an effort not to make the same mistakes twice I made a Lean Startup ...
What I’ve Learned from Failed Startups
What I’ve learned from failed not so successful startups: Focus on the customer first I originally thought that this simply meant getting a couple low hanging fruit to say yes to an idea. What it really means is that you need to figure out a way to build buzz around what you are doing, before you ...
Google isn’t the answer to everything afterall
I am quickly looking at life through a new lens. Not to sound like a droid, but ever since my senior year of college, I have been discovering the importance of human interaction. When I was going through school I was very focused on being the best software developer that I could be. I had ...
