Design For Hackers – First Impressions
Today I got my copy of Design for Hackers by David Kadavy. I’ve followed the writing and marketing of this book since it showed up on Hacker News months ago. I’ve read the first chapter so far and I’m enjoying it so far. David presents himself as very knowledgeable, but not in an obnoxious way. Instead he seems like he’s genuinely awed by the power and value of design and he’s bursting at the seams to convey that information. I’ll write some more about it when I finish.
One thing I’ve tried to do lately with books is to get the big picture message besides just what the words say. Not every book has one, but here are a couple things I picked out of the first chapter:
- Section headings are in a sans-serif font while text is in serif. I assume this is demonstrating how to separate markup from content.
- Paragraphs are all roughly the same length. This makes the text flow and let me get into a good rhythm while reading.
- The page headers have the chapter number in bold, chapter name in regular, same font. This both unites and distinguishes the parts.
None of these points have been referenced in the book so far, and I don’t if the were intentional or even true. I’m just trying to see what a book about design says about design.
Great job David and I can’t wait to keep reading!
Joystickers – Tactile Buttons for Touchscreens
Shill time, baby!
Anyone who has read this blog knows that I love my iPad. I’m a sucker for the apps, the screen, the feel of it, the whole package. So I was excited to see a new project on Kickstarter for a new kind of accessory.
I don’t play games on my iPad as much as I did when I first got my iPod touch, but I used to play a lot. One of my few complaints about iPod gaming was the fact that there was no tactile feedback when you pressed the screen. The guys at Joystickers are making a button that you can stick onto the screen to solve just that problem. Go there, watch the video, pledge some money.
The part I’m really excited about are a couple of fancy styluses – one like a nice pen and one like a paintbrush. I love using NoteTakerHD, but the stylus I have is too short and thin to feel really comfortable in my hand. I’m dying to try out the Flow and the Scribe. To sum up, this is a great looking project worth contributing to. Check it out!
What Your Resume Really Says About You
THE SITUATION
- Strong Linux admin and Java stack experience – he could get a job in that kind of shop no problem.
- Evidence of interest in other programming tools – he did a Rails project in 2005(!) for an internship and some Django projects at his main job. This showed awareness of new tech trends and willingness to use the best tool for the job, not just what he’s comfortable with.
- More emphasis on greenfield, new applications than maintaining or growing existing ones
- Both desktop and web development projects
- Capable of integrating other tools and systems as needs (credit card payments, WordPress, SMS, etc)
THE EVALUATION
- If he wanted to work in a medium-to-large, non-tech company environment, he had a great set of skills and should be gainfully employed in companies like that for a long time to come
- I did not think he was well positioned to switch to a Python or Ruby shop or a small startup because most places need someone who can contribute immediately without a lot of training or supervision, and it didn’t look like he had a lot of experience with those. Some, but not enough to hit the ground running
- Smart and fast growing companies larger than a certain size (say 10 devs) could be a possibility because hiring fast is hard and they need a broad skill set and a fast learner. He appeared to be those things.
THE ADVICE
- You might think you’d be happier somewhere else, but bouncing jobs doesn’t always work. I’ve worked at 6 places since I graduated in 2005 and Groupon is the first place I’ve really, really loved. Don’t expect to get it right on the first try, but don’t be afraid to try!
- Work is a huge part of your life, so it’s worth researching companies beforehand to give yourself a better chance of landing the best job. Find and meet people that work there, visit the office, interact with the blogs/twitter of the people that work there, go to meetups they attend, find connections on LinkedIn, etc. Also try to meet former employees.
- Bonus tip: if you do those things, then when you apply, you’re no longer a resume, you’re a real person
- Having a web presence can give a perspective employer a more complete impression of you than can fit on a resume. How you think, how you write, what you’re interested in, etc. Public projects, OSS contributions, etc set you apart from most applicants and turn you from a flat resume into a real person. They are indisputable proof that you can produce things and are engaged in software as more than just a job.
- Tactical tip – name your resume something like “Resume – Jake Nelson.doc” – it makes the hiring person’s job easier and cuts down the chance that your info gets misplaced.
- Take a long think about where you want to live. This guy had worked in the same region where he went to school, a couple hours outside a major metro area. Smaller places like that have benefits, but there’s also a lot to gain by moving. You enter a bigger and richer job market and it gives you a chance to reinvent your outlook on life.
- He was in the Eastern US, so I recommended looking into New York City. For every ten articles I see about how hard it is to hire good developers, 8 of them are about NYC. There have been several Hacker News threads about hiring in NY and how good developers are getting multiple offers. Etsy, Foursquare, Gilt Group, etc are all growing fast.
- Once you find a place you want to work, don’t worry if you don’t feel qualified to work there:
- If you take the advice I listed above about getting to know a company, you’ll be a much more attractive candidate and you’ll have an idea beforehand if they would consider you
- Getting a great job is a discontinuous event in your life. If you can land an awesome that you’re barely qualified for there, then a year or two of working at that job will teach you enough that you’ll be in the same league as the rest of your coworkers. If you sneak into a job at Facebook, then after a year, you’re a Facebook Developer. Ditto for Google, Twitter, Groupon, Foursquare, etc. Those opportunities can change your career trajectory for years to come.
THE CONCLUSION
EPILOGUE
Advice to a college sophomore programmer
Background: One of the new responsibilities I have at Groupon is getting lots of awesome developers to work here. [If you are or might be an awesome developer, email my work address - peterc@groupon.com - and check out the job openings at http://groupon.com/jobs ] So I’ve put myself out as a representative of Groupon’s dev team, announced hiring, answered questions, etc. In one week, two people have responded asking about summer internships.
[HILARIOUS UPDATE: I left off one sentence that has confused at least one person so far. Groupon doesn't have an internship program right now. We're just barely starting on campus recruiting for college graduates. The friendly advice was a consolation prize since I couldn't help with the internship. Sorry for the confusion!]
Here’s some advice I gave them through email that I thought was worth posting publicly:
- If you’re already reaching out to companies when you’re a sophomore , you should be commended for being so on top of your career this early in school. Too many people wait until two months before (or even after) they graduate. Even if you don’t get the internship, you make an impression.
- If there’s an established technology you’d like to learn, a book is still a good place to start. There’s a balance of theory and practice, it will be edited and consistent, and give you a complete end-to-end look at the technology. But don’t just read the books, do the exercises in them. If you want to learn Rails, the book Agile Web Development with Rails has you build a complete ecommerce website and you can do it in a week or so. Sometimes doing comes before understanding (or rather, you can’t understand without doing). EDIT: How do you tell the good tech books from the bad? Ask someone who is good at that technology. Too shy? O’Reilly and Pragmatic Programmer books are generally good, and you can often get good recommendations by searching on StackOverflow or SearchYC.
- On that note, PLEASE don’t wait for a class to learn a new language or technology. CS classes have their place, giving you a broad foundation of principles and practice in certain specific subjects. But many techniques (e.g. source control), technologies (e.g. server administration, nginx configs, etc), and languages (many schools teach only C and Java) won’t EVER be covered in school. In the workforce, you’ll have to learn stuff on the fly and on your own for your whole career, so you need to start learning things outside of class now if you want to be decent.
- Don’t just focus on specific languages or frameworks, learn some general programming skills. Books like Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (free online at http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html) , Clean Code, The Pragmatic Programmer, etc are great for that.
- If you glossed over that last point, go back! Reading SICP, watching the video lectures, and doing the exercises will make you a fantastic programmer.
- Learn at least one “obscure” language. It will help you learn things that are hard to learn in mainstream languages like Java. I’m partial to Lisp and the book Land of Lisp is a great, fun way to learn that language.
- Find a project. It doesn’t have to be something meaningful or important, just do it! Write a scraper to find the nearest Starbucks to you. Make a group management website for your study groups. Write software to control a LEGO mindstorm robot. Just do something, post projects online, put code up on GitHub, and write something about what you did, and put it on a blog. This gives you a public record of interest in programming outside of work, which is very, very appealing to employers and probably the number one thing in getting to an interview. It will also give you practice writing and show you how you improve over time.
- Get involved with developers in your area. If there are meetings in your area, you can find them in 5 seconds thanks to the other Big G. If you can’t find any, it’s because those things take time and hassle to arrange. Volunteer to help with the meetings, find locations, etc, or organize your own. That stuff isn’t hard, it just takes time and the confidence to do. That way you will generate a lot of goodwill and make connections with people you can work with and learn from.
So there you go. $100 worth of books to buy, a years worth of homework, and you will have made yourself more appealing to employers than most college graduates!
Bonus points: If someone answers you saying “We’re not ready now but get in touch next year”, make sure you do it!
Observations After A Month At Groupon
About a month ago, I started working at Groupon. It has been a pretty exciting month since then. Here are some random observations based on that time:
1) Groupon is working on exciting technology problems. Big scale, big data, multi platform, etc. The problem space is straightforward but the scale and importance of every part of the system makes it a worthwhile challenge.
2) Groupon has a principled approach to software development. Pair programming as needed, small, focused teams, meaningful code reviews, sensible testing, operations and deployment options, etc. The team is a mix of permanent employes and long-term consultants, and they support each other. It helps that the consultants come from one of the most excellent companies in Chicago. The product roadmap for the coming year shows a legitimate need to balance short term business needs with building a platform to support continued growth into the future.
Groupon’s technology work isn’t bleeding edge or particularly innovative. It is extremely well done application to a profitable problem and has scaled from a team of inital whiz kids to a medium sized team better than any place I’ve worked or know of, and signs are that it will continue into the future.
3) By a quirk of seating, I sit right behind the CEO, Andrew Mason. I occasionally overhear him talking so I have a tiny bit of insight into the higher up business decisions. Let’s just say that if you’re competing against him an the rest of the exec team, good luck to you. I think a lot of people are fooled by how he comes of as a goofball in his interviews. Don’t get me wrong, he is a goofball, but he is also a savvy business leader. He knows what’s going on with us, our competitors, the technology, the business, etc. If you still insist on getting into the deal space, build a small niche based on personal relationships, because the chance to be a big player in the deal business is gone and it will not be relinquished.
If you’re interested in more about what it’s like to work at Groupon, leave a comment or email me. If you’re a talented developer interested in working here, email me now.
How To Recruit Developers
I received a nice email today from someone living outside a major metro that wanted to do a startup but couldn’t find a developer. While I’m no expert on recruiting, I do read a lot. Here’s the response I sent him, slightly edited and cleansed of incriminating info, that can hopefully help someone else.
- Attend all the developer social events you can. User group meetings, hackathons, etc. You’re more likely to find startup-interested people at a Ruby or Python user group but you’re trying to find a specific developer, not a demographic, so don’t be choosy at first. Do some research beforehand on the speaker and their topic so you can participate and ask useful questions. Offer to help the organizers – running these things is a pain in the butt so it’s easy to curry favor by helping out with mundane things. This will give you some credibility within the group which is useful as a non-developer. Even if you don’t find a cofounder, you will make some technical friends that you can use to help you “sniff-test” people you hire/recruit elsewhere.
- (if you’re not a developer) Learn to program. You won’t become great, but you do need to be competent. You can build a demo of a product without having a ton of experience. I would recommend either Python/Django or Ruby on Rails. Python is a little cleaner and more consistent, but Rails has a lot of tutorials and a platform called Heroku that makes it super easy to deploy and run a website. Buy this book: http://pragprog.com/titles/rails4/agile-web-development-with-rails and work through it until you’re satisfied with what you have. You should now be able to make a decent website and have some ability to evaluate other developers’ work.
- When you find someone, give them some small, finite, measurable deliverables that you pay for (cash or equity) upon completion of each piece. They’re auditioning as a developer, but you’re also auditioning as a boss/partner. Employing a person, let alone taking them on as a partner, is a big commitment, and you want more due diligence than a couple of emails.
- Pay. Microeconomics works, so the more money you can offer, the deeper your pool of candidates you’ll have access to. If you want people to believe your stock is going to be worth something, you’d better show some convincing proof. This goes doubly outside of Silicon Valley.
- Move, or allow telecommuters. No one is going to move to a somewhat isolated town of 350,000 for you until you’re an established company. Groupon could open an office there and people would flock to it. They won’t do that for you or me. The big tech markets of NYC, SV, Boston, Seattle, Austin, etc have the deepest technical talent, but they also have tight labor markets for developers. Big metros like Chicago, Atlanta, Houston, or Los Angeles have lots of technical workers without the startup culture. Also consider smaller places with high levels of technical talent – Columbus OH, Portland, Research Triangle NC, Pittsburgh, Ithaca, etc.
- Consider applying to the SproutBox program (http://www.sproutbox.com/ ). They take a higher % of equity than other incubators, but they co-build companies with you, providing developers and other resources beyond just a little $.
Readers, do you have any other recommendations for an unfunded, unheralded startup trying to find a developer?
iPads are awesome!
I’ve had my ipad for a couple months now and I love it! This is the first long thing i’ve typed on it so it’s taking me a while and I’m having to fix a lot of typos. But other than that, it’s great!
Most of the obvious things have been said already, so here are some things I’ve noticed but haven’t heard:
1) I bought a DODOcase and it is a wonderful iPad case! It looks great, feels much more comfortable in my hand than the iPad by itself, and it had kept my iPad looking brand new. My only complaint is that the corner foam pads don’t hold the ipad in very well when you’re laying down and the case is vertical or facing downwards.
UPDATE 8/12/2010: DODOcase mailed out a new set of corner pads. I haven’t put them on yet but apparently they are listening 
2) there’s not a great pdf reading solution that i’ve found. Any pdf that’s formatted with wide margins is a problem. iBooks doesn’t preserve zoom across pages so you have to rezoom every page. Goodreader preserves zoom but doesn’t turn the page the same way when the pdf is zoomed. Converting PDFs to epub with calibre can mess up page formatting and stick page headers and footers in the middle of pages (this is probably because the ebb and PDF pages wre different sizes.)
3) My kids love it. Of course they love the Dr Suess books and games, but their absolute favorite? The Elements, especially the song at the beginning. No more “Twinkle twinkle”, their lullaby starts out with “there’s antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium…”
There’s lots more to say but it has already been said. If you use a computer to entertain yourself, then an ipad will entertain you even better and I would recommend without hesitation that you buy one.
Everybody Hates Jason, or Why We’ll Never Have Robot Cars
[I had written a better, longer version of this but then WordPress barfed on it. Enjoy the shoddy, hastily retyped version.]
This week, more details came out about the TechCrunch extortion scandal (too boring and non-eventful to link to). The extortee Sam Odio emailed Jason Calacanis explaining that he was the one involved. Jason forwarded the email to someone whose style I find so distasteful that I don’t even want to mention let alone link to them. The backlash against Mr Distasteful and Jason Calacanis was fast and furious – the comments “Calacanis does not seem worth trusting based on this.” and “When did Calacanis ever seem to be worth trusting? He’ll do anything to get attention.” became two of the top 25 highest voted comments on Hacker News, ever. Lots of people just don’t like Jason Calacanis.
This seems wierd to me. I’ve never heard anyone say “I know Jason Calacanis personally and I don’t like him” or “I’ve worked with Jason Calacanis and he’s horrible.” Ever since Jason expressed an interest in GeekStack, I’ve asked people I know how it was working with him, and it has been overwhelmingly positive. For example, last week I emailed him asking for a lawyer recommendation, and he emailed me back within 2 hours with an introduction. I’ve written before about why I think it’s useful for tech entrepreneurs to listen to Jason Calacanis. It’s only people that know of him that hate him (I’m sure there are people that know him and dislike him, I’ve just never heard them speak up).
The short story of what happened is:
- TC reporter asks for a MacBook Air in exchange for coverage
- Sam (founder of Divvyshot) hems and haws about it, flustered by the direct extortion
- Story breaks with limited details
- Jason writes about it
- Sam writes an email to Jason confessing his role in it
- Jason forwards an email to Mr Distasteful
- Mr Distasteful threatens to expose Sam
- Sam comes clean, tells story
- Everyone piles on Jason for forwarding the email
Jason added some details on Hacker News
- He gets 400-500 emails a day
- This email was not clearly marked as confidential
- He didn’t know what Mr Distasteful was going to do with it
Sounds like a simple misunderstanding that we can all learn lessons from:
- When you want something to be confidential, put CONFIDENTIAL in the subject and first line
- When emailing a busy person, have useful subject, short body, and clear ask at the end
- If something seems “hot”, think twice about who you tell about it
Jason and Sam both made some faux pas here, but they’ll both survive. And despite this, Jason does tons to help entrepreneurs. TechCrunch50 has sped lots of great companies on their way to success, TWiST has taught lots of entrepreneurs and helped others directly (yours truly included), and Open Angel Forum has connected 10 (soon to be dozens) of startups with the best angels in the business. This is in addition to the small throwaway things that he does in private, like helping me find a lawyer. This is all in addition to his day job.
What does this have to do with Robot Cars? Just like the preconceived distrust people have for Jason keeps them from seeing the good he does, the distrust people have for technology that takes power away from humans will prevent us from using robot cars. Even if they perform 100x safer per mile, every accident will bring headlines like “2 More Die Due To Robotic Failure”. Fear will keep a net beneficial technology that saves lives from being adopted. Ok, it was a stretch of a point to make, but it was a really fun headline to write.
Good thing Jason has thicker skin than the robots!
Build Your Own Mentor (or Why One Hour of Mixergy Isn’t Enough)
Lots of people read, liked, and shared my post about Mixergy yesterday (thanks to @prague360, @brentcapello, @kicauan, @technophilis, @antest, @monocat, of course @AndrewWarner, and others for spreading the word). The outpouring of appreciation for Andrew’s work was voluminous and well deserved, and so I thought I’d add some extra thoughts that didn’t make it into the original post.
I knew about Mixergy long before I became a big fan. One of his interviews would get posted at Hacker News, I’d recognize the name and click through, then find a video to download and usually it would end there. I’m a copious podcast listener and one of the greatest moments in my podcast-listening life was when the iPhone OS 2.0 (3.0?) added a “2x” button to podcast playback. This lets me listen to twice as much audio in the same amount of time. But it doesn’t work for video. So Mixergy interviews, while they sounded nice, were already long and because videos can only play back at normal speed, it feels twice as long. This meant Mixergy was a curious footnote and nothing more.
I finally listened to one when I just couldn’t say no to the interviewee (I think it was Jeffrey Kalmikoff of skinnyCorp) and was pleasantly surprised. It was my first exposure to Andrew’s interview style and it was so much more deep and informative than anything I’d heard before. This made me much more ambivalent (no, it doesn’t mean apathetic) about the amount of content Andrew produces once I knew how great it was. But I couldn’t keep up with it and didn’t watch another video for almost 6 months.
The magical moment was when I was reading the HN comments for one interview, someone posted a link to the audio for the interview, and I eventually found that there’s an iTunes-subscribable feed of the audio of all the interviews. This meant I could listen fast and have each interview dropped onto my iPod every day. Since then (around Christmas) I’ve listened to every interview and I realized there’s something different about listening to all of them vs just one. Listening to any given interview will give you some good insights and exposure to one person’s ideas. Some are particularly useful for dealing with a specific topic (like Law 101 for Startups – btw Andrew, many, many entrepreneurs become paralyzed by legal uncertainty and the cost of finding good answers – this was 100x better than reading web pages about law that are either too general or untrustworthy) but usually you don’t get a life-changing experience from one interview, just some spectacular anecdotes.
Listening to 10, 30, or 50+ interviews gives a whole different perspective. You move from anecdotes to data. Andrew goes into such detail that you basically have raw data on a bunch of successful companies, kind of reading business case studies in MBA school. Nobody tells you what you have to do to be successful, but you can weigh your situation against the situation and decisions made by so many others. I’d imagine it’s like the value Paul Graham and YCombinator provide. YC has graduated hundreds of companies and so they have a statistical level of experience with software startups and product development. When pg or any of the YC partners give you advice, it’s not just based on brains or hunches, it’s shaped by more experiences than any single person could accumulate. As detailed as he is, Andrew doesn’t know his interviewees as well as YC knows their companies, but Mixergy is free and open to anyone who takes the time to listen.
For an investment of 30 minutes a day, you learn enough to bounce your own ideas off of a stable full of entrepreneurs. You sort of become your own mentor. If you have access to a real life startup mentor like Paul Graham or Dave Cohen (of TechStars), by all means, use them as much as you can, but if you are locationally challenged, not ready to dive into a startup, not connected, too young, etc, let Mixergy be your mentor. You can come up with reasonable excuses for not moving to Boulder or Mountain View, but if you can’t or won’t take the free, unlimited mentoring that’s available at Mixergy, you’ll be walking blind with only your own untested entrepreneurial instincts.
Critical Fans (or how Mixergy did the Impossible)
I’m a regular reader of Hacker News from the beginning. For those of you who don’t know it, it’s a community site where people post, vote on, and comment on links that are of interest to hackers. A corollary of that is that people want to find new stuff. For instance, I don’t subscribe to TechCrunch or any of the general tech news sites, I just read the good stuff that makes onto the Hacker News homepage.
Every once in a while, some writer ends up having every thing they write posted to Hacker News for a while. (Well, there are lots of people who get everything they write posted to HN but the problem I’m about to describe only affects those that write frequently). Whether it’s a flurry of good writing, or exposure to new readers that get excited about their archives, they can end up with several links on the front page, or something of theirs posted every day of the week. The problem is that for the HN readers that already have an opinion about this writer, these links are noise. If you like the writer, you’ve already subscribed to their blog, and if you don’t like them, you don’t want to see them every day. So tension builds, snarky or negative comments get posted, and then there’s a backlash against links to that writer. After the backlash, the links from that person slow down and once again, only the best of their stuff gets posted rather than everything they write. I’ve seen it happen with Coding Horror, Seth Godin, 37signals, TechCrunch, and others.
This brings us to Mixergy. Mixergy is a site with daily interviews of successful entrepreneurs. The interviews are broadcast as live video, then available for download in audio or video format later. There are a couple things that make Mixergy special. First, Andrew Warner gets excellent guests. In addition to many big names in tech and enturepreneurship, he finds a constant stream of people with interesting and valuable experiences that you’ve never heard of. Second, it’s very well produced – interviews are at the same time every day, there’s a calendar of upcoming events so you can plan ahead to watch ones you’re interested in, the video and audio recordings are up later that day, and there’s a community-produced transcript for each episode. Third, there’s a strong community that participates in the interviews, suggests and connects new people, and pushes Andrew to continually get better. But the biggest strength by far is Andrew himself.
Most podcasts are somewhere between god-awful and tolerable. The “best” ones are still generally a couple of guys shooting the breeze with maybe something resembling a plan. But Andrew researches each person he’s going to talk to, prepares questions in advance, sends the questions to the interviewee, and has a pre-interview talk with them, including going over which questions won’t be answered (like finaicial figures). Despite all the preparation, Andrew probes for and chases down whatever interesting tidbits come up in conversation, then works his way back to the plan. Nothing gets past him or left out by him. For instance, when he was interviewing Rahul Sood of Voodoo PC, he was very meticulous about the timing of Rahul’s entrepreneurial activities as a teenager, including when he bought an old house in Calgary that he ended up selling later for $1M. If you listen to Andrew talk to someone for an hour, you’ll feel like you’ve known that person for years. And after 200+ interviews, he has his technique down pat.
Those are all great, but the thing that really makes Andrew special is how gracious he is. Listening to him talk makes you feel like he’s shaking your hand, but the really nice handshake where they put their left hand on top of your clasped rights. He’s extremely polite and thankful to all of his guests, his listeners, community, and sponsors. He seeks out, graciously accepts, and implements feedback he receives on his site and other forums. He’s truly a class act, one of those people you want to hate for being so good, but there so good that you can’t help but like them. I haven’t met him but I’m sure if I did, he’d make me feel like a million bucks and that he was the lucky one to get to meet me.
Back to Hacker News, there has been a Mixergy backlash building because his interviews have been posted every day for the last couple of weeks. People were starting to get agitated, but then something amazing happened. One person asked:
Serious question: is Mixergy considered a worthwhile site? Haven’t I seen it dissed on HN before?
I was worried that people were going to pile on, but then 10 people responsed, all positive, some extremely so. Here’s a sample:
I think it’s a life-changing site for sure and you get to hear from industry veterans first hand about a lot of relevant info. What more do you want?
They’re always really useful interviews. It’s like having several more long chapters in the “Founders at work” book.
If there was a Pulitzer for startup interviews, I’d expect Andrew Warner to be nominated.
I’m counting on Andrew’s insightful interview techniques so that he can “conjure” up from interviewees all the knowledge that they’ve build along their entrepreneurial experience so that we can learn from their successes and even failures.
Wow! Google could open source their search algorithms and I don’t think they would get as ringing praise as that from the HN crowd. Andrew, if you’re reading this, please know that you’re doing something very special as Mixergy and there are many, many people who appreciate it. Keep it up!
If you’re not Andrew and you’re interested in entrepreneurship at all, listen to a few of his interviews. While each person’s story is unique, hearing many of them helps you pick out common issues, pitfalls, characteristics, and opportunities. Mixergy lets you walk in the footsteps of giants, rather than fumbling in the dark.
UPDATE: Read the followup about how to Building Your Own Mentor here
