June 28, 2006
Back in April, I posted about Ahmed Farooq's up and coming online "local search" contender - iBegin. What initially drew me to the site was the iBegin: The Craigslist of local search Digg article which at the time was receiving plenty of "diggs" and praise from the technical and ...
June 5, 2006
I started posting interviews on The Closet Entrepreneur because 1) I thought it would be a cool way to meet successful & up and coming Entrepreneurs, 2) I wanted to discover the intricacies of starting a business from individuals who had already done so, and 3) I wanted to share ...
May 11, 2006
This Fall will mark my one year anniversary working part-time. I was tinkering with the idea of leaving work entirely to pursue my entrepreneurial dreams, so I consider myself very fortunate to have an understanding manager who was willing to make a win-win situation out of it all and ...
May 1, 2006
You may be wondering why I'm bringing you April's Entrepreneur of the Month on May 1st. In a nutshell, the interview with Ward Andrews, a.k.a. Mister Shape, has been painstakingly edited and revised - an attribute that lies at the very heart of Mister Shape's business and design philosophy. ...
April 18, 2006
The history of LoveSac was suggested to me by Josh when I had told him that I was thinking about starting a business (circa 2005). One year down the road and I'm still figuring out what I want to do, yet the LoveSac story remains a great reference for ...
April 14, 2006
I initially came across iBegin on digg where it was receiving a good amount of praise by the normally critical digg community. There was a fair share of negative comments alluding to the superiority of Google and other established local search sites, yet I came away thinking that this ...
April 2, 2006
Although my condo renovation has been a bit of a nightmare, it has also served as a source of many interesting findings. One such finding is that there is a lot of money to be saved if I only had connections with people who did things on the side. ...
March 24, 2006
Back in January, I came across the Junk Guys while looking for an appliance removal service for my condo renovation. One of the guys who showed up was Matt Montoya, cofounder of the Junk Guys and a former manager at an auto glass company. Matt and his brothers-in-law ...