People’s Software Company

Okay, it’s true, I have always been someone for whom fear has been a strong incentive. My friends laugh at me because my car trunk has survival gear: water, a jacket, food, blanket, raincoat-in addition to the more usual jumper cables, flares, etc. Now that I am starting a company, I am experience a [...]

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One of the really cool things about doing TechStars is that Lisa and I are going to be working together–and living together–for three months. This is going to help us really align around our vision, our product roadmap, our team. The past three days have already taught us alot–we’re refined our pitch 15 times, had [...]

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Our startup was one of ten chosen from the pool of over four hundred that applied for the TechStars incubator program. That means my cofounder Susan and I have relocated for three months to Boulder, Colorado. I drove here, and it took three days.
I felt like turning around in Youngstown, Ohio. [...]

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Today Susan and I did four back to back interviews for a tech lead for our startup — two of them happened in the Panera on 29th Street, because we’re keeping it real that way. No Aeron chairs for us!
As of this evening, we have three candidates who we think are rockstars, want [...]

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I’ve heard it said that travel is broadening, but if that’s true, a trip has to challenge some notion you hold about the world, human nature, or yourself.
I’ve never thought of myself as superstitious. I’m a reluctant atheist rummaging around for an upgrade to agnosticism. I don’t believe that coincidences are meaningful, I [...]

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