Photo by Lindsey LaMont on Unsplash Getting funded is a pain in the ass and recently a new scam is hitting founders with little experience with cryptocurrency. I’ve tried my hardest to simplify this but there may be some terminology that isn’t clear. All you have to understand is this…

The following is an excerpt from my new book, Get Funded!, available now. Need a copy? Want to write a review? Ping me on Twitter @johnbiggs! The answer to that burning question keeps founders up at night–literally. Coming home after a full day of work to build another product is…

South Brooklyn is quiet. Where there was once an endless chaos of cars and trucks rolling up Sixth Avenue onto the highway, now there is only the expected. The morning begins with a lost Leviathan calling in the fog, a ship coming up an empty river under a silent bridge…

I’ve been working from home for twenty years. At this point in my career I actually like going into an office once in a while, if only for the free snacks, but I would never commute nor would I go in if I didn’t have an absolute need, like a video shoot or something that required my physical presence. Working from home isn’t for everybody, but it may soon be. Given the vagaries of real estate, the growing failure of office startups, and the general post-millennial attitude that a job is a lifestyle, you’ll probably be sitting at home sooner than you think. …

Two things made me start thinking about the current state of social media. Both happened today. First, my daughter came in this morning crying that she couldn’t access her account on Tik Tok that had 315 views and 10 followers. …

One of my favorite things about the past few days has been walking by my daughter’s school and seeing the little guys and girls who need a lot of special help in come out of their bus into the waiting arms of their teachers. …

Building a Slackbot is surprisingly easy and I wanted one that would send RSS feeds to a special room. This, I discovered, was a bit hard. This is why I wanted to share some of my work here. The first trick is to get your Slack API key. This is…

If you want to stay sane do the following: Delete social media apps from your phone. This forces you to go to the official websites, all of which are hot garbage. In this way you turn Facebook and Twitter into read only access points and/or broadcast mediums. …

I write and transcribe for a living. You don’t. You run a cool startup or you sell cupcakes or you do something else. But you have to write. You have to explain to the world what you’re thinking. Here’s how. Step 1 — Figure out why you’re writing. Few people…