Last weekend, Taylor Caby and I headed down to Austin for the SXSW Interactive festival.  We had a great time meeting some interesting people, catching a few tech panels, and exploring Austin. Who Won? Whenever people do a recap on SXSW, they seem to focus on “who won” the event.  Probably a little silly, but [...]

Vietnam is a country that I’ve been itching to visit for a while now.  At the end of February, my girlfriend and I took off from DC with a couple of friends to explore Vietnam over the course of two full weeks. Our itinerary included six stops: Hanoi We arrived in Hanoi (via Seoul) around [...]

This is going to be a blog post about startup ideas, but I’d be remiss if I didn’t start off by saying… Ideas are worthless Execution is everything.  This concept is hammered home in the startup and business world, but I know that coming from a poker background, I underestimated it at first.  It’s cliche, [...]

Happy New Years everybody!  One of my favorite parts of 2011 was the amount of fun and interesting business ideas I have been able to work on. Many of these ideas were brought to me by poker players, and one overwhelming theme was “I have a great idea but no technical skills to implement it.” [...]