May 2011

Hacking the American Dream

Submitted by mikehostetler on Thu, 05/19/2011 - 11:12

Last week I had the privilege of attending the 2011 BigOmaha conference. BigOmaha was by far the best event I have ever attended. The Silicon Prarie News team did an amazing job organizing and executing this conference.

Filled to the brim with inspiring content and amazing introductions, Jonathan Sharp, Andrew Wirick and I sat down to just hang out and decompress on the event. The short discussion that followed crystalized a perspective I've held for a while, but am only beginning to understand and communicate.

Hack the Dream: Control, Natural Consequences and Grace

Submitted by mikehostetler on Thu, 05/26/2011 - 14:57

As a follow up to my post last week about how appendTo was founded and Hacking the American Dream, I’m going to blog on some of the philosophical pillars we built the organization upon that led us here. If you have a question, please don’t hesitate to leave a comment or contact me.

Om Malik interviews Steven Blank: Taking Venture Capital is a Pact with the Devil

Submitted by mikehostetler on Fri, 05/27/2011 - 09:24

Steve Blank just posted a great interview he did with Om Malik. In the interview, he talks about many different topics but my favorite part starts at 13:00 where he discusses the fact that when you take VC, you're really making a pact with the Devil.

http://steveblank.com/2011/05/27/entrepr...

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Mike Hostetler is an inventor, entrepreneur, programmer and proud father. Having worked with web technologies since the mid 1990's, Mike has had extensive experience developing web applications with PHP and JavaScript. Currently, Mike works as the CEO of appendTo, LLC, The Company Dedicated to jQuery, based in Denver, Colorado. Heavily involved in Open Source, Mike is a former member of the jQuery Core team, leads the QCubed PHP5 Framework project, and participates in the Drupal project. When not in front of a computer, Mike enjoys hiking, fly-fishing, snowboarding and spending time with his family.