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500Startups Experience – Week 0

“Do absolutely everything you can do get into 500Startups,” one of my friends who had just completed the 2nd batch of the accelerator program said, “It’s been a godsend to us.” Well, it’s only been two days since the start of the 14 week program of the 3rd accelerator batch and all I can think [...]

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Belated 2011 Tech Predictions

I haven’t wrote in a while on here (almost two months, to be exact) as I had started writing as a guest contributor to Greenhorn Connect, Boston’s top resource for entrepreneurs.  To be honest, I had planned for writing the “Prediction Post” (such as this) in mid-December but never got around to it.  As you [...]

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It’s You Against The World

“It’s you against the world until you have users who actually like your product,” Bill Clerico of WePay said in a way that resonated with me ever since StartupBootcamp 2010. He talked about how no one essentially believed that him and Rich (his co-founder) could pull off WePay successfully when he was starting out.  They [...]

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Being Young is a Gift

Growing up, I often hated being young (still do, to some extent).  I remember turning 15 and hating my birthday because “there was nothing special” about being 15.  I couldn’t drive and I still couldn’t watch R-rated movies.  When I turned 17, I hated it even more because “there was absolutely nothing special” about being [...]

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Why I Came to College

For most people, going to college is something that’s been etched into their “path” since as early as kindergarten as one of the most important and significant things they must do to become successful and live a happy life.  For me, college was never something I was fixated on “doing”.  I remember specifically during my [...]

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