In 2010 I was transitioning from New York City to San Francisco to help my buddy Jim with his startup and launch a sales tool called Feedgen. Jim and his co-founders were participating in the first ever class of a new startup accelerator called Angelpad. Jim said some very solid things about the program and […]
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How to Survive a Startup Accelerator Program
Hustler Spotlight: Jack Smith, Advisor to Coin, Survios, and Onfleet…
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 […]
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 […]
My Angelpad Experience
I was a participant in the Spring 2011 Angelpad class, which happened to be the 2nd class conducted since the program was founded summer of 2010. My view on the program was perhaps a tad different from some of the other founders. I was about to be 30 years old and had spent my entire […]
Mopub: A REALLY great company.
The @mopub team is awesome. I believe this is the next big thing on the horizon. Great leadership and talent coupled with a fun environment (check out their facebook page — do I see Mopub promo models?!) is a winning story. Now I must admit that I am pretty close to the management team. I’ve […]