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  • Advice When Looking for a Technical Co-Founder

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    It’s been great watching the early stage startup community grow in the DC region over the past six to twelve months. Companies are getting funded, new ventures are being created every day, and on the whole, the entrepreneurs in the area no longer feel like lone wolves wandering around with no support network. As I’ve…

  • HeyAstro: Dropping Everything and Jamming for 16 Hours

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    When Mike IMed me a few months ago to ask if I would join him and Kunmi for StartupXLR8R, I resisted at first. I am already focusing so much time on STRUCTO, and already distracting myself with side projects like WhoMails.Me and ProudlyMadeinDC (the latter of which Mike is a co-founder), that another project would…

  • Presentation at DCPHP on PHP/AWS/Rightscale

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    In February of this year I presented at the DCPHP meetup. Based on my experience deploying large client applications built in PHP using AWS and Rightscale, I gave a detailed walkthrough of how to set it up. Fuzzy video below:

  • The @ProudlyMadeInDC Movement – Kickstarting a Startup Community in DC

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    As mentioned previously, I’m co-founder of ProudlyMadeinDC, a central site showcasing DC’s startups, showing to the world, and to ourselves, that DC is an up-and-coming startup hub. We started it as a small side project, but it’s grown to become  real movement, helping to power the rise of DC startups. I presented at Ignite DC…

  • 2010 In Review + Lessons Learned

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    2010 has been an awesome year. Of course, after the previous year, I could have done nothing but sleep all year and it would have been better for me. A few highlights: skeevisArts has been thriving. We launched a ridiculous number of websites (and those are the projects we can talk about), as well as…

  • DJ Lessons at the Beat Refinery

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    I’ve always loved DJing. I’m the kid who made mixtapes for his friends in high school. I got a small taste of it senior year, when I had my full setup in my basement, and hosted many sweaty fraternity parties (while destroying half a dozen speaker systems). But I never really understood what to do,…

  • Customer Motivated Entrepreneurship and the Lean Startup

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    As a hacker-founder (an entrepreneur who develops their own products), how familiar does this sound to you: Have an awesome idea. Don’t tell anyone about it. Decide to build it, convinced that everyone will love it. Still don’t tell publicize it. Keep working on the product. Not as wild about the idea anymore. Come to…

  • Say Hello to Structo

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    First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win. I’m behind in writing this post, but I’m happy to finally get around to talking about this now. I’ve been working on a new startup. Say hello to Structo. Structo was born out of a pain I saw as a…

  • The 80%/20% Entrepreneur

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    [insert usual excuse about blogging absence] While I am firmly established as an entrepreneur, having started one company of my own (skeevisArts) and been CTO of a now-acquired startup, I know that the business that I’m in is a means to an end. As much as I love to work with awesome clients and grow…

  • 2009 in Review: Extreme Highs and Lows

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    2009 was a year to remember, without a doubt. The Highs 2009 professionally was an amazing year, as it marks my first full year of running my own company, fulfilling a dream I’ve had since I was a kid. The people I’ve met, lessons I’ve learned, and amazing products we’ve collaborated on have been a…