Blog Posts

How to market, especially at the very early traction phase.

Today the 5 most valuable companies in the world are tech comapnies: Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Facebook. Twenty years ago, none of them were tech companies. Software is eating the world ( http://a16z.com/2016/08/20/why-software-is-eating-the-world/ ) If you look into the future, do you see less tech or more tech? The answer is obvious, which is why it's obvious that you should invest in technology rather than the market as a whole - because technology will beat the market as a whole. I want to talk about how you can get started investing in tech, why you should, and the right way to do it (Robinhood to avoid commissions, no commissions enables you to start small and ramp up).

We're doing a cool thing, traveling around while bootstrapping Canny!

It's super annoying how every time you join a new Slack channel, you have to create a new password, recreate your profile, etc. One person should have one account with Slack, not N accounts. This post would be about why this is painful, how I'd fix it if I were Slack, and other considerations like how this probably impacts their metrics. General design / product-y post. https://slack.canny.io/feature-requests

Similar to my "Software Engineering -> SaaS Founder", but different. Would be more about the types of skills required to be successful at a big company vs as a founder.