JohnnyStartup

2017-01-11

Dammit. I winced at the unfurled scrap paper sitting menacingly in the palm of my hand. My 2016 goals, splayed out for the requisite self-flagellation...

2016-07-13

“Stop the Car!” A casual drive down a leafy road in rural Lincoln, RI, was brutally interrupted by my wife’s plea. “There should be a cemetery over on...

2016-03-02

Sometimes I think Scott Kirsner, Boston’s most prominent and respected tech journalist, has a bi-polar relationship with the Boston tech scene. Shots...

2016-02-15

“This is God View.” Austin Geidt was radiating so much excitement, I thought she was going to slip off her bar stool at Mead Hall in Cambridge, MA. As...

2015-02-20

It was the time of night when the Bernie the cockapoo and Fernando the chihuahua are curled up in their beds, Michelle is chopping vegetables for our...

2015-02-18

This winter, after five years of helping build LevelUp into the strong mobile payments player they are today, I decided to embark on a new challenge with...

2014-12-28

I read biographies…a lot. I plowed through thrillers like “Confessions of a Wall Street Addict,” by Jim Cramer, and “The Snowball,” an account of Warren...

2014-09-16

“Oh yea, we lost the iPad on the second week and couldn’t test it out.” “Sorry, we didn’t get a chance to install the integration because we had to put...

2014-09-11

As I was finishing up an externship at a Philadelphia-area law firm one spring, one of the partners pulled me into his office. He told me not to waste...

2014-07-07

Wave upon wave of new consumer-facing apps are hitting the home screen of millenials’ smartphones. Uber and Lyft have harnessed technology to acquire...