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I am extremely proud of our team today for launching Kitchenbowl. Less than a year ago, we started with an idea that we wanted to “learn how to cook” and experimented with cook books (too much work), blogs (too fragmented), and recipe portals (poor quality).…

Kitchenbowl is now Available on iOS

November 22, 2014

There over a hundred different bags of chips at a super market. If I tried to examine each of these bags for size, shape, consistency, texture and flavor to determine the best chips, I would drive myself and the people around me crazy. Nearly every…

Lesson #1: Sufficiency

May 13, 2013

Having seen the post “Idea Guy Looking For Developer” pop up on Hacker News, I thought I’d weigh in my opinion as a developer-entrepreneur who has worked with various business and technical co-founders. Many technology founders can’t solve hard technical problems (algorithms, machine learning, scaling)…

Business Product Responsibilities

January 19, 2013

The most amazing reason to work at a startup is not the money that it makes or the product that it creates. Rather, it’s the environment that challenges a team and pushes us farther than what we would’ve accomplished individually. Our culture I watched our…

Farewell Bullet Media

April 28, 2012
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Having struggled financially, I embarked on a different journey than most of my peers. After the dotcom crash, my parents did not have the financial luxury to pay for my college education and expenses. Luckily, finding programming at an early age, I learned how to…

Passion First

April 3, 2012

In response to the TechCrunch article, “Silicon Valley’s dark Secret: It’s All About Age“… I once started a company called HotSwap as the CTO with some of the brightest minds from Berkeley, MIT, and Stanford (including some ACM world finalists). We had a lot going…

De-emphasize Age, Refocus on Play

August 29, 2010
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Creating a good brand is one of the hardest tasks of an entrepreneur. Aaron Patzer, CEO of Mint, stated that you should “expect to pay $3 to 15k for a 6-8 letter, single word, English domain name.” In fact, he paid $180,000 in equity for…

Thoughts on Domain Acquisition and Branding using AI

July 15, 2010
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