mirz

Would be great to hear your feedback on this.

I've been pouring in the 16 hour days for a year now and executing well, but neglecting any sort of balance in my life. All the added stress has made me neglect my family and definitely eliminated any personal time.

I decided to do something about it in June.

Exercise has made a big impact. I started running almost every morning and logging 20M+ weekend mountain bike rides. I've realized that you need to keep your cardio strong and your physique honed or the lifestyle will simply make you pudgy and listless. Great Founders know how to eat right, work out right, and feel right. This is like running a marathon, so you must live your life like a marathon runner. I've also heard that its good to do some sport where you can hit something. Tennis, boxing, hockey, or martial arts, let you hit something hard and get the negative energy out.

I used to stay up working until 3 or 4am quite regularly but now walk away from my computer by 1AM so that I can get at least 6 hours of sleep. I think sleep deprivation is a reality for most startup entrepreneurs.

If you really want to mess your life up, forget to put your family in the balance. This is your most important asset and precious responsibility. Make sure you focus here and not only give them dedicated time, but meaningful time. I reinstated date night with my wife and I'm trying to make an effort to balance things out in general.

Yes, we worked on it for about a year bootstrapping. We ended up putting in about $50k between the three cofounders somewhere during that period of time.

Definitely. We have benefited a lot from what others have made public and will do the same.

I've also been working on a post that breaks down some of the performance metrics we saw from our celebrity social media tests.

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Would love to hear any feedback you guys have on our story. Thanks!

Sorry, I copied from the blog template.

Ooops... fixed. Thanks :D

Just set up our blog for Swagsy in preparation for our beta release. We've run some tests with a few celebrities while working on our MVP. I plan to share some of the insights around celebrity social media that came out of that.

Would be great to hear your opinions about the blog, the content, or anything related to celebrity social commerce in general.

Cheers

Miron

Google is NOT a pioneer in wearable computing and have really been getting more than their share of praise. This is a space that has been developing for quite some time. Steve Mann, a professor at University of Toronto, is probably the best known researcher that has been developing similar mediated reality technology since the 90s.

Google is just looking to commercialize the space and make sure it's their services that are driving the experience.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Mann http://eyetap.org/

Thanks for the feedback :D Genuinely appreciated.

I'll keep working away at it.

Ouch about the originality - but you're right.

Francis is going to make it big. He has it.

Well, it's really just the font on the header that is the same on the homepage. But again, had Francis' blessing and he just raised money from Thiel... so go with what works right?

They are both built using the Dress Rush pitch deck that was open sourced. http://www.women2.org/dressrush-pitch-deck-heard-%E2%80%99ro...

Francis, founder of evr.st is a friend of mine actually.

*on = in

Spent a lot of time building this out but don't have time to work on it anymore. Not sure if I should try to partner with someone or try to sell it or what. It generates some modest income but not enough to hire a full time developer.

Interesting job posting and interesting site - they seem to have created a social/crowd-sourced recruitment model.