The Anorexic Startup – A Tale of Sex, Drugs, and C++

March 13, 2012

“Day 37: It’s been over a month since I’ve embarked on this masochistic lifestyle.  My eyes are bloodshot, burned deep by my laptop’s searing glow. The floor is littered  with streaked coffee cups and half-smoked cigarettes. A late rent notice is buried somewhere under the mess, along with other forgotten responsibilities. My hoodie and jeans [...]

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MicroConf 2012 – Coming Soon

January 13, 2012

You might have heard about my little podcast called Startups for the Rest of Us. You might have also heard about MicroConf, which is the conference that Rob Walling and myself put on for self-funded startups and single founder companies. If you haven’t been listening, don’t worry about it. We’re hosting this little conference again this [...]

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New Laptop

January 5, 2012

Back in August, I was doing some work in a hotel room on my laptop and things started going “weird”. The system would appear to freeze up a bit, or the colors would go all trippy, or windows wouldn’t refresh. After five or ten seconds, I would see the following error message: “Display driver has [...]

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WordPress Security

January 2, 2012

I’m doing a bit of an informal survey here, but I’m curious to know whether any of my readers use WordPress. If you do and have a few minutes to take a simple 6 question survey, I’d appreciate it. It shouldn’t take you more than 3-5 minutes to finish. Take the Survey

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Developer Fail

December 28, 2011

As you can see from the date of this post and the date of the previous post (about 5.5 months between them), my goal of getting AuditShark to alpha status at the end of July was, needless to say, a bit late. In fact, I wasn’t particularly thrilled by the sound of that self-imposed deadline [...]

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The AuditShark Challenge Results? FAIL… Sort of

July 6, 2011

Well, I made no secret of the fact that I wanted to launch AuditShark by the end of June. The end of June was a few days ago, so you might think I’ve failed to meet my goal pretty miserably. Except that in May I stated on my podcast that I was pushing back the [...]

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New Look for My Blog

July 5, 2011

Well, I decided to change things up a bit on my Blog and the new look that you see today is a result of that effort. It took me a couple of hours of tweaking last night to get it to where it’s at right now. I’m sure there’s a few odds and ends that [...]

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MicroConf: How it all went down

June 21, 2011

About three months ago, Rob Walling and I announced that MicroConf was coming to the Riviera in Las Vegas. Two weeks ago, it happened. And more than 100 people descended on the hotel for a conference we put together from beginning to end in a mere three months. If I saw you there, then I [...]

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Free Tickets to MicroConf

May 26, 2011

It was just two short months ago that I announced on my blog that I’m co-hosting a conference called MicroConf. Well, we’ve gone through the pre-sales process, and gone through the regular sales process. Now it’s time for the final push. If you’re interested in going to MicroConf, you still have time to get there. [...]

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Arbitrary Choices and Forward Momentum

May 25, 2011

Over the past several months, I’ve been diligently working on my new product called AuditShark. If you are new or haven’t been following my blog lately, the basic concept goes something like this. There are dozens of industry regulations which dictate specific settings that should be configured on computer in specific ways. They include things [...]

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