Just this past Tuesday night, our Spring Quarter students rocked out 1871 with their Demo Day presentations. And while the 19 teams showed off their great web apps, those five-minute presentations really represented was three months of hard work. 80 students came from all over the country and the world to Chicago for three months [...]
Monthly Archives: June 2012
Minimum Viable Productivity
June 17, 2012 – 4:53 pm
Days I want to dominate the world with my productivity? Every day. Days I actually dominate the world with my productivity? Maybe 1-2 days a week. What happens on the rest of those days? Minimum Viable Productivity. What is minimum viable productivity? I don’t know I just made it up this morning so I’m kinda [...]
The Disadvantages of Clean
June 10, 2012 – 1:26 pm
Over a month ago I wrote a blog post entitled “GTFOMI” which for people who hate acronyms stands for GET THE FUCK OUT MY INBOX! For those of who know me (and this guy) emails in our inboxes are like poison. I sleep easier when I know I have cleaned out my inbox before bed, [...]
Focus and Follow-through
June 3, 2012 – 3:34 pm
Life in a startup can feel like this everyday: Switchboard Operators Daily Stand-ups, interviews, emails, designing, TA-ing classes, meetings, more emails, and that can happen all before noon! It’s amazing how you can work for 16-19 hours in a day and not feel like you have moved the needle forward at all. Amongst all this [...]
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