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Recent Posts
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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 and feature tests and were discussing what was next. On the glass walls of the conference room we were in, we sketched out everything we Read more
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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 working on a startup?” The lessons learned I’ve learned have been numerous and wide ranging – some expected (eg. you have to be resourceful), and Read more
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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 the needs of a user, while a great product not only satisfies the needs of the user but goes beyond and offers such a satisfying Read more
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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 our marketplace, as well as the consumers who would shop on our marketplace. To determine what value we could bring to sellers and buyers, we Read more
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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. Wearable tech has been discussed for years already – fitness trackers from Jawbone and Fitbit, smartwatches from Apple, Samsung, and just about everybody else (e.g. Read more
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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 can ecommerce be headed in 2-5 yrs? When we conceived the idea for Mason Park, we approached it with the mindset that mobile ecommerce was the Read more
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