Best friends make the best business partners. No lie!

Photo by James Sharp
I have often heard that you shouldn’t hire your friends or family to work with you because you’ll just end up hating each other and getting into fights.  After all, your best friend wouldn’t take it very well if you were giving him orders all the time.  Though working with a friend [...]

Startup Life Ep 13: The Lost Episodes (Part 2)

Here you go for your viewing pleasure!  The second Lost episode contains the final footage of the Startup Life Season 1.  We had a lot of fun runnig around and taping our lives, and now it’s time to finish off the season with a bang!
We have a meeting with Peter Lee from Prism Ventures, and [...]

First physical team meeting of 2009!

This post is going to be two parts: The first will be about my feelings, apprehensions, thoughts, and opinions before the physical team meeting; The second part will be about how I feel after the team meeting.  Hopefully I come out feeling super alive, happy, and excited about 2009!
Before the Team Meeting
It is Monday morning [...]

Help Viralogy pitch to investors and achieve funding!

Viralogy just entered a competition sponsored by Vator.tv and The Funded where the top 10 companies get the opportunity to pitch to investors and the winner receives funding!
I want to thank you so much for following my blog and the team’s journey to build a successful internet company.  If we are able to achieve funding, [...]

My ode to Brazen Careerist

I’ll keep this short and sweet:
If it wasn’t for Brazen Careerist, I may have never met such a wonderful group of people that I admire so much and learn from everyday
Things that Brazen Careerist has done for me:

Provided the platform where I met my first friend in the blogosphere - Monica O’Brien
Positioned me to write [...]

At the brink of having no money and still smiling!

Photo by Chandra
I have been working “non-stop” for 1.5 years on my startup company.  Yu-kai says we have made a little over $20,000 with Future Delivery, though I have seen very little of it.  I have made $8000 in savings last me this long, but now, I am at the brink of completely running out [...]

Startup Life Ep 12: The Lost Episodes (Part 1)

You thought all we had was 11 episodes didn’t you?  Well, Chris Lew and I dug up some of the footage that we never aired that we filmed after the Presentation with DIMG and created 2 lost episodes for you guys!  Yes I know, the episode is a bit random, but I thought you guys [...]