Posts tagged “entrepreneurship”

After a slow six-month transition, I've stepped back from awe.sm. I remain an advisor, but I'm now a free agent for the first time in a decade, working on tools to make web development easier. Not job hunting, not in stealth mode, just coding.

I'm leaving Yahoo! to join Snowball Factory as technical lead and employee #1. We're building tools to help content creators use social media more effectively and measure their results. It's several hard problems at once, which is exactly why I'm excited.

Ideas don't come from thinking alone, they're accidents born of conversation. The Bay Area's density of geeks means more collisions between clever people, more happy accidents. You don't need to be here to run a startup, but you probably need to be here to get the idea.