How Getting Punched in the Head Helped Me Build a Better Startup
About a year ago, I took up boxing more seriously. While I had enjoyed boxing already, the classes I took typically were more boxing as cardio exercise and less boxing […]
Here’s How Walmart Plans To Beat Amazon
Note: All posts reflect my views and opinions only Part of the fun of I had with Mason Park, the e-commerce startup we had, was the challenge of understanding the […]
Startup No More – Shutting Down Mason Park
On a cloudy morning in San Francisco, my co-founder and I huddled into a conference room within our work-space. We had recently finished our latest round of user feedback sessions […]
My Top Startup Lessons And Entrepreneurship Lessons
Since working on our startup, Mason Park, for about a year and a half, one of the most common questions that come up is “What are your top lessons from […]
How To Get More From User Research
When designing a product, the most important goal is to match a user’s needs and wants with an elegant solution that satisfies those needs and wants. A good product satisfies […]
Building A Marketplace – Adding Value to Sellers and Buyers
With Mason Park, we’re a marketplace of independent retailers that serves a consumer audience. To build our marketplace we needed to provide value to both sides – the businesses on […]
Why Snapchat’s $129 Toy Are A Glimpse Of The Future
As smartphones gain in capabilities and more and more of the planet becomes tethered to our pocket sized computers, there continues to be a lot of buzz about what’s next. […]
What’s the Future for E-commerce?
Given all the movement from Amazon lately and through my own experience in ecommerce via Mason Park, I thought it’d be fun to try playing fortune teller a bit – Where […]
