April 2011
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1. Ship. 2. Fire your limitations.
Four years ago I was sharing an small apartment in Vermont with a closeted American Idol fanboy, making a near minimum wage sewing Nike swooshes onto gym bags. Then I poked the box. Now I am the Creative Director of a San Franciso company, built and run an online gaming startup with thousands of users, sold thousands of copies of my own artwork, been on national TV, in national magazines, and...
Apr 28th
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Startup Idea: ShoutBreak.com browser based chat
Back in December of 2009 I was really excited about this idea I had. Users would install a plugin or extension for their brower and when others users were viewing the same URL, they had the opportunity to create a small chat room. So lets say a news story breaks and thousands of users go to a CNN url, then those with the plugin can chat about the news story. Or lets say you are into fly fishing...
Apr 25th
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I got a job. Creative Director at Visual.ly
It’s been a while since I had a job.  Been doing my own thing since 2007. The opportunity to join Visual.ly came along and I took it.  I have already been working with those guys at Mint for years anyways, so its only natural to extend the relationship. I am excited to be working at the forefront of of the “big data + big understanding” movement.  People are waking up to the...
Apr 12th
Free Robot Radio
So back in 2007 I did a radio show on WRUV 91.1 FM called Free Robot Radio. The tag line was , IDM breakcore, folktronica, 8 bit throwback, robot liberation empowerment spirituals. It was great stuff.  I went by the moniker, Mibs, and my co-host was Lolly, who was an actual robot.  Lolly had a good ear for music but a snotty attitude, being from the future he thought he was better than...
Apr 9th
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