Startups are ridiculously hard. When you work on as many startups as we do here at Big Kitty, you start to develop a kind of sense of things. You understand complexity on a whole new level- not just in technology but in people, and how they have to endure the unknown with a kind of…
Old habits die hard. I used to be a serious magazine hunter. Like collect odd ball magazines. I spent a ton money back in the day collecting magazines of every niche fringe field of interest I could imagine. Now a days its all PDFs really as print media has taken quite the hit. I occasionally…
I have a secret. I know the future. Its augmented reality. Really, it is. Its been forecasted for years. If you’re on the pulse you’ve seen it as an artifact in science fiction- either read about it and imagined it or more consumed its articulated manifestation in movies, TV shows, or my favorite medium of…
No. You need two things typically but today I guess I’d add one more thing. And these are all either or aspects. You have money. Your product made money- that seems like a win at first but its not. It has to reveal how you made money and often raises more questions that can actually…
Self delusion, however this is one of your greatest powers. But you can be self absorbed into your own delusion of how something should or could work. Now i’ve done this myself but when i do this, i treat the whole concept as an experiment lowering the expectations and the guilt load of how the…
Today I logged into Linkedin and was reminded of an old gold claim I done and possibly forgotten. A tip to anyone who wants to claim influence, be on the fringe, it has its rewards. I started the first ever Amazon Mechanical Turk group on Linkedin, before even Amazon itself took the product as seriously…
