Blog

• Playing Moneyball With a Lean Startup Budget

  May 6, 2015

  Drawing on Moneyball and NBA glue guy Shane Battier, I explore how a lean startup can find undervalued, unselfish hires instead of chasing superstars.

• Welcome to Technollywood: How Funding a Startup is Like Producing a Movie

  March 18, 2015

  Comparing startup fundraising to pitching a movie in Hollywood, and drawing on Kathryn Bigelow's and Howard Schultz's early rejections for encouragement as a founder.

• Positive Psychology at Work: Creating a Happy and Engaged Workforce

  December 18, 2014

  Drawing on Gallup workplace data and Shawn Achor's positive psychology research, I argue that hiring happy people and fostering a culture of happiness builds stronger, more engaged teams.

• Part 2: Reaction Commerce: A Powerful Leap Forward for Ecommerce

  November 22, 2014

  Why existing ecommerce platforms are outdated, and how Reaction Commerce is using JavaScript, Meteor, and Node.js to build real-time merchandising and pricing without page reloads.

• Part 1: Ecommerce is Heading Toward a Major Upheaval (and Reaction Commerce is Ready to Fill the Void)

  November 11, 2014

  A history of ecommerce and its platforms, arguing the industry is overdue for major upheaval that Reaction Commerce is positioned to fill.

• Will Native Apps For Ecommerce Go the Way of the Dinosaur?

  October 18, 2014

  Arguing that native mobile apps for ecommerce will eventually give way to web apps, drawing on Meteor's new mobile tools, Steve Jobs's early web-app vision, and Facebook's HTML5 misstep.

• Being the Boss vs. Working for the Boss Thoughts from the founding CEO of a 365-day-old startup

  October 8, 2014

  One year into founding my startup, weighing the emotional highs and lows of being the boss against the safety net and clarity of working for someone else, drawing on 20 years at companies like Yahoo and Etsy.

• This is Fun: Thoughts on Positive Psychology From a Startup CEO

  September 22, 2014

  On discovering positive psychology's research on happiness and optimism, and why I believe hiring happy, optimistic people is the foundation of a good company.

• This is Hard (Year One Startup Thoughts)

  September 15, 2014

  Six months into building Reaction Commerce, an honest look at how hard bootstrapping, remote teamwork, and being a first-time founder really are.