Jack Smith is one of the top startup advisors in the world. He’s originally from London, UK and has been living in Silicon Valley for half a decade and has founded companies Vungle and has help launched many popular startups like Coin, Survios, and Onfleet. I first met Jack in 2011 through Thomas Korte’s Angelpad startup […]
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OK, Twitter’s Dick Costolo Stepping Down – Are you happy now?
I’m not for one minute going to sit here and pretend like I know the best way to run Twitter; but I will say that I had a chance to work at Twitter under Dick Costolo after we (MoPub) were acquired. What I can say is that the guy did a hell of a job taking […]
LOST by David Wagoner
This is a poem that my father has recited to me many times over the course of my life. Whenever I find myself asking questions like “what now?” or “what’s the right path?” I think of this poem: — LOST Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you Are not lost. Wherever you are […]
26 Leaders that are Disrupting B2B Sales Tech
Max Altschuler, CEO at SalesHacker | Conferences, Author, Thought Leadership Andi V Smith, CEO at AV Search | Recruiting Matt Hubert, Product Manager of Dashtab | Sales Development Workflow Software Rob Nagle, Lead Software Engineer of Dashtab | Sales Development Workflow Software Ilya Semin, Founder and CEO at Datanyze | Sales Intelligence Ben Sardella, Founder and Chief Revenue Officer […]
We ARE Just HUMAN
This post is in acknowledgement of my very dear friend Aslam Najeebdeen. Why? — because we must acknowledge and support people in our lives — for no reason at all. Love and help others and good things will happen. — I met Aslam in early 2011 via a Ruby on Rails IRC chat room while […]
Bigger Than Business
I arrived in Silicon Valley for the first time in 2006 when trying to raise money for a social travel startup that my partner and I bootstrapped from my graduate school apartment in Tallahassee, FL. We had decided to pack up and head to the “motherland” to try to raise money and recruit engineers. I […]
Poem: The Wise Entrepreneur
In the past I wanted to start a company just to start a company. To give myself meaning. To make myself proud of I. I didn’t care if it was a great idea, really; and just rushed into it head first. I just wanted to BUILD SOMETHING. I just wanted to PROOVE SOMETHING. To Who? […]
Life’ish Thoughts: PEACE
My last blog post was all about my perspective on how life, love, and entrepreneurship mirrored each other in so many ways. Its crazy how much I believe I have grown as a human being over the past two years; a two year period of tremendous experiences across all facets of life. My awareness has […]
Life, Love, and Entrepreneurship
Food for thought: Success is in the eyes of the beholder I’m 31 years old. Since I was a kid my mother tells me that I always had a curiosity and passion to build, invent, love, make music, and make friends. She reminded me of the time I tried to build a small boat from scratch. How I […]
Quick Sales Tip: PostWire.com for Sales Prospecting
I am always looking for new ways of improving the way that I prospect, especially when it comes to qualifying opportunities. I came across PostWire earlier this year and have to say I really like it. The way we sell has certainly evolved and contrary to many “sales experts” cold calling is not dead, it’s […]