Many venture capitalists and other investors never read your whole business document. They read the executive summary and (if you’re lucky) skip to any other section they’re interested in – usually the financial parts. So, the executive summary is the most important part of whatever you’re writing for them. It is the first [...]

Recession? What recession? In the fifteen years I’ve been developing web sites and applications I’ve never seen more business than in 2009. It’s been a banner year for my businesses (probably because the recession has created thousands, if not millions of new entrepreneurs with nothing to lose now), and I know I’m not the only [...]

DICE iTPA-220 iPod Tube Amplifier System This, friends, is one amazing iPod docking station with speakers. It uses tube amplification, which is pretty old-school, but I absolutely love the merger between old and new. I mentioned something like it from Hammacher Schlemmer way back in the day, but that bad boy costs $4k. I’m way more [...]

Since the creation of my Wordpress photo plugin called Duh Gallery, hundreds of thousands of people have hit this blog looking for the perfect photo gallery. It’s been years since that plugin was created, but today there are even better options available. I’m going to mention a few amazing photo galleries you can [...]

Serendipity. n. an aptitude for making desirable discoveries by accident. We are indebted to the English author Horace Walpole for the word serendipity, which he coined in one of the 3,000 or more letters on which his literary reputation primarily rests. In a letter of January 28, 1754, Walpole says that “this discovery, indeed, is [...]

I’ve realized that most of what I create on the web is about 2 years ahead of it’s time.  And as much as I can both pat myself on the back and at the same time get depressed about the fact I didn’t make billions off of my ideas, there are many more people who [...]

“Honestly,” she says to me, “there is absolutely no market for stated income loans anymore.” These were the words I was afraid of, was warned about, and didn’t believe. I wasn’t easily turned away. “Why? What’s the difference between a stated income loan and a full doc loan… is that right? Is it called [...]

Matt Langdon is the founder, creator, and visionary of the Hero Workshop, a fascinating project-turned-organization who’s aim is “to show young people that by doing the little things every day they can become heroes. Far from having to perform miraculous deeds, they are provided with an attainable goal.” I’ve asked Matt to write a post for [...]

For years I’ve been helping my friends and family understand some of the jargon that goes along with being on the web. Now that the web is commonplace, the number of questions I get has increased. Thankfully, there are many resources out there to help people get some great answers now. For [...]

The past year has been full of social media being the first to break the news. Even prior to this year I was hearing of earthquakes and good news reports from citizen journalists long before the traditional journalists showed up on the scene. The Iran elections have changed the face of media and government control [...]