I’m a strong believer that with enough effort, anyone is capable of learning the skills necessary to start a company. Whether you’re rich or poor, whether you go to Harvard or a middle school in Zimbabwe, whether you’re 22 or 44, I believe you are capable of learning what it takes to successfully start your [...]

Jeff Clavier Last week, I got the chance to sit down and chat with Jeff Clavier, founder and managing partner of SoftTech VC (some of their representative exits include Mint and Tapulous). Before diving in, I want to give a shoutout to Lionel Vital for being totally awesome and setting this meeting up! So Jeff [...]

TEC has come to a close, and I’m now in my first week of classes at Yale. In the three short months since the program began, it’s incredible how much has changed, and how much those changes are a direct result of my experiences with True and Schematic Labs in San Francisco this summer. Just [...]

I recently had the opportunity to meet with Alex Moore, the founder and CEO of Baydin. Baydin, which means “foretelling the future through magic” in Burmese, is the company that brought Boomerang for Gmail and the Email Game into the lives of all of us who struggle every day to fight back the incessant flow [...]

In my first blog post I noted that my main objective for my time at Kiip and TEC was to learn as much as I possibly could. Mission accomplished. More than accomplished. I feel like I learned more this summer than in a whole year at school. So what exactly am I taking away? There [...]

Coding at BrightRoll has been intense, and unlike anything I’ve ever done before.  I knew it would be hard and that I would learn a lot this summer.  What I wasn’t expecting was how much of a difference it would make to be a part of a team. When you’re the only one working on [...]

Spending the summer at BrightRoll has been a big step for me in terms of becoming a useful engineer.  I’ve learned a lot at school, and I’ve done coding projects on my own, but there’s no substitute for working with real engineers in the real world.  When I came to BrightRoll, I knew that I [...]

The final day of TEC was last week and I’ve spent a lot of time since then thinking about how much has changed since the first day of the program. I’ve met more people, learned more things, and had more fun than I would have had spending my summer any other way. Everyone at True [...]

It does not matter how slow you go so long as you do not stop. – Confucius 11 interns. 13 books. 18 speakers. 8 weeks in San Francisco. One priceless summer. This summer has been the best summer ever. Why? I’ve learned and experienced so many things I never thought I’d try. Here’s a short [...]

After hearing Manish Shah talk at StartupRoots, I wanted to hear more about Rapleaf and Manish’s beginnings and story. Though I learned how Rapleaf ended up at its current state, I learned even more about team-building, a different way to look at rejection, and how to shape your start-up. Thanks, Manish, for all of your insights! Introduction [...]