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Saving an old, but favorite, vision statement
I’m rebuilding my LinkedIn profile to reflect what’s next. I want to build businesses, and not just products. Not just any business, but a business that helps small businesses thrive in a world where corporations have a huge head start, and just keep getting further ahead. To tell that story on LinkedIn requires rebuilding my…
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Getting a Raspberry Pi connected to power
Supplies or you can get all of these together in a bundle from iUniker which I think is much easier Assembly The instructions that come with the box were great. Some key pieces that we found we wanted to triple check even though they seem very obvious… Make sure that the ports (USB, Ethernet, HDMI,…
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Building a 4-player arcade cabinet
Summer 2022, the kids and I built a 4-player arcade cabinet. We’ve still got some work to do to finish the cabinet, but over 3 or 4 weekends we were able to: We still need to: Then there is the debate over whether it will just be the cabinet, or whether we’ll build the full…
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Highest return in 2020? People
It’s been an incredibly tough year across – the pandemic, the election, and, amongst it all, building a company focused on GovTech. When nothing is easy, and everyday feels like a lesson in survival, it can be tough to find the motivation to face the next challenge. As I look at this year, and start…
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Winning startups develop their process muscles from the beginning
Startup mythology tells us to avoid process at all cost. It’s bureaucratic. It’s a big company control mechanism. It stops the only advantage that startups have – speed. The mythology is wrong. Every business needs to build 3 simple processes into their DNA from the very beginning: Define the next set of milestones for the…
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Metrics in; Product discipline out
In the Spring of 2019, we became obsessed with our metrics. Specifically, the metrics that focused on how large of an impact we wanted to have in the lives of our customers as opposed to the metric of how successfully we were solving the key problems in our customer’s lives. During this period, we lost…
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Why it was worth fighting for
It’s really easy for me to come out of the last 3 or 4 months with nothing but negative views on what happened, and why it ended up where it did. But the reality is that I was in the situation that I was because I strongly believed in something that – honestly – would…
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A letter to my future self to remember why I left Odeko
At the beginning of 2019, I founded and built an amazing startup. At the end of 2019, I left. Over the next few days, I’m going to write about what I think happened in 2019 that meant that I went from the happiest I’ve ever been in a role to depressed, burnt out, and running…
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The new onvural.net is live!
I’ve done it! The new http://onvural.net is live, and you can find the code for it here: https://github.com/meliho/onvural-website. It’s an incredibly simple site, and the build process involves locally building, and then FTP-ing the code up to my server. But it was really fun to build. The design and code are based on the tutorial…
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Building a new onvural.net
It’s time for a new project. On onvural.net, I’m going to build a timeline of all of our photos. It will give us a chance to put them all together into one place, and I’ll have fun building the tech stack underneath it. My mom has in a closet at the family house 30 albums…