
I'm a husband, dad, son, geek, and entrepreneur. I've done my share of small startups, and have a crap-load of opinions on what it takes to be successful. In my adventures I've done a dialup ISP (sold in 2003), a distributed web crawler (bought and killed by Wikimedia), a photo sharing site (dead), and a log file search engine (in progress). My gadget addiction was recently featured in the New York Times, if you care to read it. Back in the day I ran a metal fabricating shop. When I was a kid my family was in the oil business in Oklahoma, and in the 1930s my grandfather invented and patented the hardfacing process. Yes, I can weld. No, I won't fix your kid's bike.
Learn. Risk. Live.