Stephe's Random Thoughts

Paul Graham is a dynamite idea guy for startups. Here’s his “office hours” from Disrupt.

Photo credit Andrew Warren

So, I spent the last six weeks or so writing Ruby, Javascript, HTML and CSS code – on LocalFoody – and now have to switch hats completely to focus on:

• traffic acquisition
• promotions/pr
• business plan work
• pitching investors
• attending events
• building out the content database
• figuring out how to get my mobile apps built
• attending to accounting stuff

etc, etc etc.

This is the life of a bootstrapping startup. It is never boring, but often overwhelming and whiplash inducing.

If you are an entrepreneur how do you manage it? I would love to hear your tips.

Two weeks ago in Vancouver a bunch of Canadian entrepeneurs and Silicon Valley types met up to network and share learnings and war stories. Here is a sample of some of the great talks that occured.

This guy is the startup marketing guru of the moment. A smart approach for startups.