Getting Off the Ground, Lessons from Pearl Harbor
You have an idea, and you think it’s going to be “huge”. You are able to convince others that it will be so - partners, wives, mothers and friends. You spend a substantial amount of time preparing to...
View ArticleFinancing Your Life: Just Watch!
“A fool can earn money, but it takes a wise man to save and dispose of it to his own advantage.” - Brigham Young I spent the last couple years reading every finance book I could get my hands on. I...
View Article3 Ways to Get Creative Entrepreneurial Juices Flowing
I met a fellow entrepreneur this weekend at a forum on BYU campus. He is an aspiring individual, and is one of those future CEOs that has an ability to light a spark in the people around him. He told...
View ArticleWeb Apps should add value
On the topic of webapps. Stop focusing on delivering content. Focus on adding value.I met with a couple entrepreneurs this last week. These guys were great! They were motivated and tenacious; the kind...
View ArticleInsights for a busy life
The insights are in you!When I read blogs, I often skim. It’s not that I don’t value insights, it’s that often I think the best insights come from inside myself. I hold the same true for you. Things...
View ArticleMotivation is Overrated for Entrepreneurs
I love this! Motivation is good, but doesn’t play that much of a role.Unfortunately I know a ton of people who are highly motivated yet they still don’t really seem to succeed much.Actually, the more I...
View ArticleSalting Your Butter
People have expectations for your products. They want a unique taste. You can’t just give them normal butter.I lived in Japan for a couple years as an LDS missionary. We had a family that we worked...
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One of the more surprising things I’ve noticed while working on Y Combinator is how frightening the most ambitious startup ideas are. -Paul Graham
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Work as hard as you possibly can, make everything the best you can possibly make it, and be prepared to spend every waking hour for the next three to five years focused exclusively on one thing. -Dan...
View ArticleTablet Deployment Tools Should Be A Top Priority
I wrote a post for the ZAGGBlog about Amazon's new Whispercast service. In the 90s, business adoption of computers running Windows was driven heavily by the requirement for Microsoft Office. In order...
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Best Place In The World For Startups
LearnStack was awarded a $25,000 grant from USTAR North’s Go-To-Market program.We’re so excited about this that it’s been hard to keep inside since they sent us the acceptance emails.Six teams received...
View Article3 Quick Sodastream Tips
1Test out a few different levels of fizziness to determine what you enjoy most. Personally I prefer about five pumps (until buzz). The recommended three pumps (until buzz) wasn’t enough.2You don’t have...
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Getting Healthy: My 4:50 Goal
It is time for me to be healthy: exercise regularly, eat healthy foods, and spend quality time with my family.This post is going to be a bit more personal than usual. If you’re interested in the...
View ArticleCitizen Fund
Bryce Roberts posted about a service called SeeClickFix:As with most crowd funding campaigns, these projects can be opened to anyone, anywhere to back. Given the right tools, I think they’d be...
View ArticleDonate because you're one of the Lucky Ones
Mick Hagen and Undrip are doing something cool over at lucky.undrip.com for the entrepreneur victims of Sandy.Donate. I did. Then I downloaded the song from iTunes put it on repeat, and haven't stopped...
View ArticleTwo Xcode plugins I didn't know I needed
Mini XcodeGitHubLet's you select scheme and device with a simple (Ctrl + 7Ctrl + 8) shortcut. It also lets me size every window the way I'd like. No restrictions based on the toolbar.DerivedData...
View ArticleRecruit Rock-Star Employees on a Budget
Excited to see this post on Young Entrepreneur. It's something I'm sure a lot of us think about frequently:The best way to hire A-players is to be one yourself. In my many interviews with Silicon...
View ArticleIronically... You need to do it for you
When you’re the founder of a tech startup, your spouse will probably feel lacking in what your business demands from you most: time. You run into the frequent decision to sacrifice your time for your...
View ArticleCreate LinkShare Short Links
I have a lot of friends using affiliate links for apps in the store. The click.linksynergy links are embarrassing. The redirection is ugly, and tacky. You can create affiliate links that generate...
View ArticleHow we use GitHub as a killer bug tracker and code review tool
I like a place to organize my bugs and features. I don’t like to double track in my own to-do list and in a bug tracker. I’m also a huge fan of code review. It was important to me that code review...
View ArticleCount.ly SDK for iOS 'Finally' Added Persistence
A couple weeks ago, I reached out to the guys at Count.ly to express frustration that the SDK didn't persist events and data.It's a big problem. If the device isn't connected for a period of time, or...
View ArticleA detailed rant: Why mobile web apps are slow
It's a long read, but a great one. I love this portion of the article most: One of the problems with these “X is slow” vs “X is not slow” articles is that nobody ever really states what their frame of...
View Article"Leave the gun. Take the cannoli." - Balancing work and family.
In case you don't know the line here is the video:As you're leaving for work your wife says: "Don't forget the cannoli!" Your work is hard and can take a lot out of you. The end of the day comes, and...
View ArticleThe best logos work on many stages
I got a couple comments after sharing the Athlon Sports article that ranked the best college football logos (the BYU Y is in the top 5). Andrew Madsen, for example, thought the current logo was utterly...
View ArticleProgramming Is The New MBA
It’s obvious to me that learning to program could be one of the best things you could do for your own career. Similar to an academic graduate program (like an MBA) programming will open many doors.I...
View ArticleGoing for Gold
What I wantLet me start with a simple fact: I want the golden iPhone. I was depressed on launch day when, only 80th in line, I didn't get my new gold colored device. In fact, it was the first launch...
View ArticleThe Creative Process
You know Kibuishi nailed it when he said: "Creative process: 1) This is going to be awesome 2) This is hard 3) This is terrible 4) I'm terrible 5) Hey, not bad 6) That was awesome"You know he nailed it...
View ArticleI have 5 promo codes for Objective Clean. Want one?
If we're honest code style (like the famous 'nested else') is silly little problem that we all care way too much about. Objective Clean is a Mac app makes it super easy to fix. My development team...
View ArticleThe Value in Accruing Technical Debt
Steve Freeman wrote an excellent article on "Bad Code":Call options are a better model than debt for cruddy code (without tests) because they capture the unpredictability of what we do. If I slap in an...
View ArticleAn Empty Swift Project Template
Are you excited to start using Swift? Do you hate Storyboards? Did you notice that Apple pulled the "Empty" template from the latest version of Xcode 6? Do I have a treat for you: The Empty Swift...
View ArticleWhy I Chose to Learn iOS Instead of Web Development
I write the curriculum for DevMountain's part time iOS development course. Our first cohort was extremely successful. If you are considering learning to code or become a developer, you should consider...
View ArticleIs Apple Watch a Game Changer? The iPhone Sucked
People keep asking me if the Apple Watch is the real deal. They want to know if it’s going to be big like the iPhone. They read complaints that it's slow, and that it isn't waterproof, and that it...
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