I started hearing the buzz just two weeks ago. Rachel Sklar was making a music video (see it towards the end of this post) for the Raise Cache fashion show, to benefit hackNY. Unfortunately, I was far away at Clarkson University… studying hard for a Fluid Mechanics exam I had the same day of the [...]
Collin Yarbrough has been my roommate and my main man at Clarkson University since freshman year. Almost straight away, he introduced me to the Steve Jobs keynotes (or, “Stevenotes“) and made each one a scheduled, required viewing in Cubley Hall 108. In no time, I was hooked. Today, he found an email that I sent to him on June 4, 2010 [...]
Right now, a movement is taking place. A Party revolution. It all started with Gary Lachance throwing some pretty insane parties. Today, the parties have grown to tens of thousands of people. In a few weeks, they are bringing the ridiculous fun to the US for the ‘Strictly Business Tour‘. Along with his co-founder and fellow Canadian, Tom (pictured on the left), [...]
My mentor/friend Larry Chiang inspired me to write this story. It is a story from personal experience of building genuine friendships with mentors, and the value of learning from them. Last year at the inaugural TechCrunch Disrupt conference in New York City, I was unexpectedly introduced (via text message) to the famed man of [...]
Do you know how much energy I have right now? One post certainly won’t do justice to how pumped I am about the redesign Matt Ackerson, Paolo Roa and the PetoVera team did for my blog, ‘The X Factor’. I am fired up. Motivated. This is only the beginning. Thank you, thank you, thank you. [...]
*NOTE: About five weeks ago I hand-wrote a letter to Dwayne Carter (the artist better known as Lil Wayne), who is currently serving a prison sentence in Rikers Island, New York City. My friends urged me to publish what I wrote, but I had already mailed it. A few days ago I decided to write [...]
This is the 2nd part of the most extensive text interview I have ever done (if you missed Part 1, catch it here). Eric Norlin has been described as a zealous conference founder and a big tech thinker. He’s the founder of three separate conferences on technology: Defrag, Gluecon, and the brand new conference Blur. [...]
How many times have you read a blog post and been inspired? Have you ever come across a particular blog post and had the thought, ‘this topic could be something bigger, I bet I could make a conference out of this’? Well, Eric Norlin has. More than once. Eric is a zealous conference founder (he’s [...]
On July 23rd, I had the opportunity to be interviewed by Bruce Peters on the “The CEO Hour” ; a “revolutionary radio show designed by and for the Upstate New York business community.” If you’re interested in hearing the interview, I hope you will listen to the first segment as well as the second segment! [...]
Last year while I was in New York City for the Web 2.0 Expo, my friend Harrison Painter , the Host of “Coffee With Harrison”, asked me to make a video for New York Entrepreneurship Week answering the question of why it might be important for a business to use social media. So, my best [...]