A Pretty Good Interior Painting Process

A Pretty Good Interior Painting Process Every few years I find myself remodeling the interior of a new dump that we’ve just moved into. And, just enough time passes between remodels that I have to think through and carefully plan the paint job before I begin. Given that I’

Backyard Chickens — Reality Check

Last month my wife and I re-homed our hens after raising them from tiny chicks and caring for them for more than two years. Watching them leave, and knowing that we had failed them was devastating. I’m writing this with the hope that I prevent someone else from getting

CAN-SPAM [Tricky] Circumvention To Startup Founders

You may think that being willing to do anything to see your venture succeed is a virtue. It isn’t. Tenacity is a characteristic, an attribute, a trait, and it can be used for good or bad. Tenacity coupled with avarice causes tremendous harm and is a characteristic of many/

Day Trading: How to Scale-Up (Increase Your Size) Responsibly

When I started trading, which was quite a while ago, it took a lot of effort and a long time before I started to see some progress and an upward-sloping equity curve. Like most people, I started out trading a one-lot (initially on the ES and crude, and then on

Thoughts On “Psych lessons from one of Yale’s most popular classes”

I was on the road today and was, of course, listening to NPR in order to pass the time. Their Think show was on at the time and the host was interviewing Paul Bloom, a psychology professor at U. Toronto as well as a professor emeritus at Yale. He’s

Powell Has Restarted America’s Wealth Transfer Machine

Well, it would be more appropriate to say that he recently initiated the second phase of a well-architected cyclical mechanism that serves a single purpose: to transfer wealth from the lower and middle classes to the ultra-wealthy. Here’s a summary of how it works: Phase 1: Stoke the economy

Product Hypothesis Testing

Product development is an iterative process, and I view it as hypothesis testing. Others before me popularized this paradigm—Eric Ries (MVP) and Steven Gary Blank (Customer Development)—and I'd be remiss if I didn't provide attribution. Nonetheless, I have a specific set of hypotheses in

Evaluating Market Size: TAM, SAM, SOM

Preface In this article, I’m going to share a methodology for evaluating the market size for a fictitious B2B SaaS product named “Geospatial Crop Intelligence” (GCI for short). This same approach can be used to evaluate the opportunity for launching a new product at an established company or for

Perfect Startup Pitch Deck

Angels and VCs have very specific information that they want to see in a pitch deck. The more accessible that you make this info and the less you obfuscate it with unnecessary filler material, the farther you will get. Keep it simple and don’t “bury the lead.” Eight out

How to Choose a Good Domain Name

Finding a good domain name for a startup or new product can be a huge pain. Every good .com that you can think of is already taken -oftentimes by opportunistic squatters looking to make a quick thousand bucks; all of the keywords and combinations/permutations of them that aptly describe