Archive for January, 2008

Startup Weekend Seattle – Build a startup company in 54 hours!

Posted by Matt on January 30th, 2008 under All, Business Lessons Learned Tags: , , ,  •  No Comments

I’m recovering from the past three days which were completely committed to Startup Weekend Seattle. This is an event where a bunch of locals get together and startup an actual company in one weekend. This idea was created just 7 months ago by Andrew Hyde from Boulder, CO, a very cool cat with big ideas, [...]

What I learned from eHarmony.com

Posted by Matt on January 3rd, 2008 under All, Business Lessons Learned Tags: , , , ,  •  No Comments

For the first time ever, I visited eharmony.com tonight after catching one of their TV commercials. Being a website developer by trade, I enjoy browsing popular websites to see if there’s any good lessons to learn. In this case, I found a couple of good lessons: Lesson #1: Double-check your math. The last time I [...]