When you are a kid, there are a lot of influences on you and your general outlook on life. Parents are obvious, music is pretty common, teachers are important. For me, there was one that was critical, and seems pretty unusual: the movie ‘Real Genius’ It happened to be on cable last night, and...
Read more →One of the real advantages of working in a start up is the relatively limited number of meetings. I’m no fan of the meeting. It usually seems like there’s 10 minutes of useful information for every hour in a meeting. I do understand that they have some merit at times, but too often they...
Read more →The last several weeks have been rather crazy as we had our official launch. Sometimes things don’t go according to plan, but work out great anyhow. I’ve had a number of interviews, and it amazes me how many people seem to quickly “get” what we’re trying to do. We’re more than free at downtoearth.com. ...
Read more →The last few weeks have had the typical Christmas and New Year’s activity, combined with that of trying to doing our startup. It’s made for basically no time off, as I was doing customer care over the “break” as much as building out our launch plan and testing our marketing. Customer care itself is...
Read more →Before joining our startup I worked for a media company. Just like any jobs you had good days and bad ones. During the bad ones I always had the option to shut the door to my office and calm down. There were plenty of ways that you could feel better, from calling a friend...
Read more →In my typical crazy mode, I managed to have some fun this weekend. Audi was kind enough to send me an invitation to test out their new car as part of the audi driving experience on Texas Motor Speedway, and I was happy to oblige. My time was for 3pm on Sunday, and I...
Read more →Today the password came off of our dating site (www.free-singles.com), allowing me to start test marketing the site. The url isn’t what we hope to be on long term, so we’re keeping our spend very low for right now. It’s still a chance to test out what works for our site. Let me start...
Read more →The one thing I haven’t talked about too much is the actual startup I’m working for, rather than the experience, so a bit of background seems in order. The company is ready to launch a new free Internet dating site with an interesting angle. We are working to make the site as honest as...
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