My Parents… The Original MVP Builders

Tonight, I will play my first basketball game in two years.  Basketball was a large part of my childhood.  I’ve been thinking back to the origins of playing basketball in my youth.  Here’s what I remember. My first basketball hoop was a bright orange milk crate with the bottom cut out. It was hammered to…

Why I’m Blogging Again

I write down about a dozen notes or ideas every day in a moleskin notebook. It’s about the size of a passport and I keep it in my back pocket. Today, I lost that notebook. Days, weeks, and months worth of notes and ideas – gone. If you write something on paper, it only lives…

What are your goals?

This is the first question Hiten Shah will ask you if you ever ask him for advice. It’s a good question. Your goals should be what you work towards.  Every decision you make should be attempting to meet one of your goals. I’ve been pondering what my goals should be for my entire life.  I’m still not…

For Those Of Us Who Always Forget To Tweet

I have had a love/hate relationship with Twitter since joining the platform in 2008. On one hand, I find it really amazing how it can bring people together to talk about cool projects and new opportunities. My good buddy, Jay Neely (who runs the Boston Startups Guide), absolutely loves Twitter. He loves everything about it. He…

Using Fiverr For Fun and Profit

A coworker suggested I check out Fiverr.com.  I didn’t take him too seriously.  I remembered Fiverr.com as a collection of random people doing outrageous things for 5 dollars.  Someone would wear your shirt for five dollars, or create a custom video singing happy birthday.  I was pleasantly surprised to see that Fiverr.com pivoted and are…

I’m Helping out with subVerses

I met Blaine Stillerman almost a year again at a networking event and I consider him a good friend.  I recently met his friends and business partners Mike and Leo.  Together, they are working on a mobile language acquisition gaming startup called subVerses. After talking to the team, I decided I wanted to help.  Besides being…

Screencast – Fixing The Tutorialzine How to Build a Chrome Extension Tutorial

There’s nothing more frustrating than an old tutorial that you can’t get to work.  I encountered this when attempting to Tutorialzine’s Tutorial on Creating Chrome Extensions.  There are 7 main issues that are wrong with this tutorial.  There are links below which will explain each individual issue with the tutorial and how to fix them.  Alternatively,…

Fixing the Broken Images form the Tutorialzine Chrome Extension Tutorial

              This post is part of a series of posts fixing the Chrome Extension Tutorial from Tutorialzine.com. [sc:fixing_the_tutorialzine_tutorial_navigation] If you made it to this page, you probably fixed the major issues with the Tutorialzine Chrome Extension Tutorial and now there’s only a few aesthetic changes to go!  Since popup.html…