August 19, 2013 in Learn
Bootstrapping Your Startup Idea
Malcolm Gladwell once wrote that it takes ten years and 10,000 hours to become an expert on a topic. While I’ve only been programming for a year and a half, I’ve been bootstrapping startups for over ten years and 10,000…
August 14, 2013 in Learn
How Much Should Non-Career Programmers Learn?
Lately I’ve found it difficult to get to the next phase in my knowledge as a programmer. After having spent the last year and a half learning to program and building my new startup, my job’s role has mostly transitioned…
July 3, 2013 in Learn
Startups Take Longer These Days
That’s why startups are raising so much money. I was casually talking to my co-founder of Uncover, Mike Potter, yesterday about all the large seed rounds we’ve been seeing over the past few years. They’ve been getting larger and larger…
June 4, 2013 in Learn
A Personal Anecdote About Learning HTML and CSS
When I set out to learn programming in early 2012 in order to build Uncover, I was primarily focused on learning Ruby on Rails. When I thought about what programming was to me, it was always about being able to…
May 20, 2013 in Learn
How Learning to Program Got Me A Technical Co-Founder
When I started learning to program back in February 2012 in order to build Uncover, I simply wanted to be able to see my ideas through to a solid prototype that customers could use. Nothing else mattered. I’d watch tutorials,…