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7 lessons to survive the next dot-com bust

Got your own online startup? Perhaps you’re building Zillow with millions in venture funding, or maybe it’s just you and your passion for furniture porn and other guilty pleasures. Either way, you’ll find something useful from the following list, which came straight from the mouth of a veteran online entrepreneur who’s [...]

kids, don’t try this at home

Just a quick snapshot that neatly captures what our working sessions are all about: alcohol, caffeine, and curiosity. And lots of trash, in all senses of the word.

JL

too late/early for a title…

It’s Friday at 5 am and we just wrapped up our second in-person working session, just in time to catch Justin’s ridiculously early flight. Like the first one in Chicago, this session lasted for two weeks, which is about the maximum amount of time you want to spend heads-down, 24/7 on a project to [...]

working session part deux

We’re now doing the second round of 2-week working sessions in beautiful Kirkland, WA – much warmer than Chicago! We’re still coding away…staying motivated by high energy music from artists like Scooter and other Euro dance tracks.
Random comment: According to John, when you flush a toilet, the splash generated by the flushing action [...]

Becoming exMSFT

Like my partner, my first job out of college was with a large corporation. When I started job hunting I had absolutely no thoughts of leaving the Bay Area, where I had spent my entire life and built up a large group of wonderful friends. My tentative plans were to join a local [...]