Entrepreneurship

I became involved with a SaaS startup last August. Stripe was the natural choice of payment processor. It’s been a learning experience. Rather than mindlessly recount the myriad benefits of using Stripe, I want to provide some of my personal

Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy by Jonathan Taplin Rating: ★★★ Date Finished: December 24th, 2017 Reading Time: An afternoon This book wasn’t what I was expecting. I guess that’s what

Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley by Antonio García Martínez Rating: ★★★★★ Date Finished: December 1st, 2017 Reading Time: Ten days; Audible Liar’s Poker—remember that book? I wonder how it was received in 1989. It’s now

If you spend enough time on the internet and enough time pondering ways to make money, you’ll become aware of freelancing. More specifically elancing, though I’ll use the terms interchangeably. Elancing is the practice of performing freelance work that is usually both

4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss Rating: ★ Date Finished: October 15th, 2017 Reading Time: Three days A seminal propagandist work poisoning the minds of Americans young and old. Though Tim Ferriss dedicates more than a few sentences to his musings

Hello, Startup: A Programmer’s Guide to Building Products, Technologies, and Teams by Yevgeniy Brikman Rating: ★★★★★ Date Finished: September 13th, 2017 Reading Time: A week What’s special about Hello, Startup is how thoroughly the author is dedicated to his craft.

My review of Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don’t by James C. Collins. Rating: ★★★★ Date Finished: March 16th, 2017 Reading Time: A week I enjoyed reading Good to Great. The author’s writing style

The Millionaire Real Estate Investor Review

The Millionaire Real Estate Investor by Gary Keller, Jay Papasan, and Dave Jenks Rating: ★★ Date Finished: November 5th, 2016 Reading Time: Ten days In a bull market, everyone seems like a genius. Though the advice contained in this book

Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble by Dan Lyons Rating: ★★★ Date Finished: August 3rd, 2016 Reading Time: Two days If the bubble bursts in the next few years, this will be shelved in the hall of fame. Since

At risk of reiterating a common piece of advice given by those who run out of things to write about on their blogs, I want to talk about starting small. In a world of unicorn startups and child prodigies making millions in the