Defining Roles and Responsibilities
Use the Responsibilities Canvas to define roles and responsibilities for individuals and teams.
Writing on building startups, software development, and the marketing industry.
All of my long-form thoughts on startups, leadership, product management, software programming, design, marketing, and more.
The Stinky Fish Exercise: Opening Up and Taking Action
The Stinky Fish exercise prompts open discussion about concerns, fears, and challenges that we may be avoiding.
Team Purpose: Guiding the Way
How to lead a team purpose exercise to help your team align on why you do what you do.
Building in Public: The Future of Startups
The future of startups is all about transparency and customer engagement. If you're not "building in public," you're getting left behind.
Marketing Mix Modeling: A History and New Approach
A short background on the history of Marketing Mix Modeling and how we approached building our new MMM product.
Twitter Advertising: DTC Companies as Revenue Boosters
An analysis of how DTC companies are using Twitter Ads as part of their marketing mix.
Using Google Docs as a Form Processing Backend
A quick and simple hack to use Google Docs as a backend for collecting submissions on static websites with your own styled form.
Approaching Sales as an Engineer
One key aspect many engineers-turned-CEOs often overlook is the need to sell your product. This is some of the advice I have for approaching founder-led sales as someone with an engineering background.
The Delicate Balancing Act: College (vs?) Startup
Pursuing a startup while being in college can be quite a tricky balance. My thoughts on how to balance the two.
5 Design Principles to Keep in Mind
Some of my thoughts on UI design and a few key principles I have found the most useful as a good starting point.
Configuring Nginx and Apache for Django
A guide on how to configure Nginx and Apache to work together for serving a Django website.
Creating a Nested (Chained) Queue in Celery
A guide on how to create a chained queue in Celery to handled nested operations.
Django Development with Git on EC2
A beginner's guide to setting up a Django development environment on EC2 with Git.
Hello World!
I’ve been thinking about opening up a blog for a while and decided it was finally time to do so. I’ll be talking about a variety of topics from code hacks, my experiences as a college entrepreneur, and anything else that captures my interest.