It’s been a good last week or so. Can’t divulge the details, of course, but it’s nice when things are coming together (or at least seem to be). I always find that when I’m feeling good the inspiration level goes up as well.  Every day lately

I’ve been a very heavy feed reader for a long time. At least 2009, I think when I first started working at YP/ATTi [http://corporate.yp.com/].  After getting out of the microcosm that is GDOT [http://www.greendot.com/], I felt that I needed to start staying

Wallaby Tells You the Best Credit Card to Use Wherever You're Shopping [http://lifehacker.com/wallaby-tells-you-the-best-credit-card-to-use-wherever-513180838] Android/iOS/Web: Swiping the wrong credit card could mean missing out on valuable rewards, points, or cash back. Wallaby makes sure that doesn’t happen to you by telling you which

There have been a number of articles lately about LA tech going down the ever-unproductive East side vs. West side, real-tech vs. non-tech path.  See exhibit 1 [http://pandodaily.com/2013/05/23/silicon-beach-the-selena-gomez-of-socals-tech-industry/] and exhibit 2 [http://pandodaily.com/2013/06/07/debunking-the-myth-that-la-doesnt-build-hardcore-technology/] .  These are also in part a

> The question was, if Starbucks products are sitting on the grocery shelf, what could we do that leverages the loyalty system of Starbucks? So beginning in the month of June, Starbucks roast and ground coffee sitting on thousands, tens of thousands of grocery shelves across the country, will have

As a startup founder, I can’t help myself from reading every thing about Yahoo’s billion dollar acquisition of Tumblr [http://yahoo.tumblr.com/post/50902111638/tumblr-yahoo]. That’s the lottery winning dream of the startup CEO. I’ve especially enjoyed the always sprited discussion of Marco Arment, former

Causation and correlation. What happens when you confuse them.

In the past couple of months I have been asked to speak at a number of events around LA. I'm quite flattered to be asked and have noticed some themes in the questions. One theme or question that almost always comes up as a topic is "What

I moved to Pasadena in 2005. We ended up here more because of a cool Craigslist post than anything else—it was the house we were renting more than its Pasadena location. Pasadena hasn’t much been our radar. I had been to Pasadena before. I visited a few times

I’m on my way back from a business trip and I’ve finally had one of those mapping experiences that makes you wish you were paying more attention before you got in the car. I’ve, of course, read about the various Apple Maps fails, but hadn’t had

Long delay in writing a post here.  Been a busy month and lots of posting over at Wallaby [http://www.walla.by] (Android app, survey contest, etc.!) So, I was reading Jason Fried’s blog post about ignoring the details [http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3387-ignore-details-early-on], which I guess is

We’ve spent quite a bit of time lately around the office talking about the value or titles in a startup.  Do you give people big titles because they are effectively in charge of things? Or do you give people smaller titles so you can promote them (and not sound

Home repair is expensive! But it drives a lot of economic value. People have to buy materials.  Then, when we homeowners mess up our repairs we have to hire professionals to come fix it. This leads to usually buying more materials as well as paying for the time of the

This past Friday night we had our first open house for Wallaby Financial [http://www.walla.by/] at our new office in Old Town Pasadena.  I think it was a great success with more than 50 attendees: investors, advisors, friends, potential future employees and business partners showing up to support

I grew up in the mountains of Northern New Mexico.  Born and raised at about 7,200 feet above sea level, the heat never rose above about 96 or 97 degrees.  Every night it cooled off really nicely, too.  So even if it was hot, at night you just opened

There have been dozens of articles around the web, twitter, etc., complaining about NBC’s coverage of the Olympics. There’s a general feeling that if the technology exists to watch something live then there’s an obligation to do so.  So everyone is pissed off that NBC is tape

If only it were really like this.  Seriously. Source: http://dilbert.com/strip/2012-07-12

> Information wants to be free. Information also wants to be expensive. Information wants to be free because it has become so cheap to distribute, copy, and recombine - too cheap to meter. It wants to be expensive because it can be immeasurably valuable to the recipient. That tension will

I drive a decently new car–a 2006. It has the “technology package” of the time with bluetooth phone and voice dialing commands.  But it doesn’t have traffic or anything fancy like that. I live in Los Angeles. I ALWAYS want to know the traffic. I’ve tried using

Going all of the way back to high school I’ve acted old for my age.  Call me an “old soul” or whatever, but there was a joke that I was 15 going on 45.  I’m not sure what specifically created that perception, but I felt it was very