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10 Things More Valuable than Money in my Bootstrapped Startup

Submitted by mikehostetler on Tue, 05/08/2012 - 13:03

In a startup, resources are required to keep the lights on, pay people, and pursue the vision for why a startup was created in the first place. Recently, I've seen more and more examples of where the pursuit of money becomes the focal point, thus ignoring the reasons why the organization was created in the first place.

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.

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.

jQuery San Francisco Bay Area 2010 Conference Slides

Submitted by mikehostetler on Wed, 04/28/2010 - 12:45

I was privileged to give a introductory talk at the jQuery Conference last weekend on April 24th. Below are my slides from the talk.

I really enjoyed giving this talk, and received great speaker feedback up on Speaker Rate. If you attended the talk, please head over and provide feedback, I really appreciate it.

Thanks to Lakewood, Colorado HVAC company, Paradise Heating & Cooling

Submitted by mikehostetler on Wed, 12/10/2008 - 10:31

The topic of this blog post is not the typical sort of content that I post on, but I felt compelled. Feel free to tune out if you're not interested in anything non-technical. The purpose of this post is to express appreciation to Paradise Heating and Cooling and is the least thing I could do to express that appreciation and send a little SEO love their way.

QDrupal for Drupal 6 finally sees a BETA release

Submitted by mikehostetler on Thu, 06/26/2008 - 07:43

After several months of development, I'm excited to announce that QDrupal for Drupal 6 has just gone into BETA. You can find the download on the new home for QDrupal at Drupal.org.

http://drupal.org/project/qdrupal

This release is the culmination of effort from several people, specifically Cliff Meece.

As this release settles, I will begin work on documentation for this release. Here's a quick overview of some of the exciting new features:

  • QForms are now Drupal Node's
  • QApplications now provide a way to define QDrupal settings right through your browser
  • You can codegen right through your browser

http://drupal.org/project/qdrupal

Attention management starting to go mainstream?

Submitted by mikehostetler on Mon, 06/16/2008 - 12:57

43 Folders had a great post this morning about an article from the New York Times regarding email overload.

What I find interesting is that this idea is just now going mainstream. Having listened to Merlin Mann's Inbox Zero mantra for a while now, and Timothy Ferriss' opinions about attention management, I am glad to see this catching on. Email overload is one of the biggest sources of lost productivity to businesses today. Thankfully, it's an easy problem to fix.

Total Leadership and 4-way wins

Submitted by mikehostetler on Wed, 06/11/2008 - 09:19

Tim Ferriss of the 4-hour Work Week published a great article this morning surrounding the subject of Work-Life balance and Psychological Interference. I've enjoyed following Tim's adventures after reading his book last year, and this latest article really stands out.

Zcodo Launches

Submitted by mikehostetler on Mon, 03/31/2008 - 10:18

I've got some exciting news. Over the weekend, Zcodo officially launched! Zcodo is a PHP5 framework built for rapid prototyping web applications that is based upon the Qcodo framework.

The motivation for creating Zcodo could more than fill this blog post. Suffice it to say that contributing to Qcodo was becoming difficult and my efforts for the last year to change this were uneffective.

Additionally, the future of QDrupal will be based upon Zcodo, so stay tuned for exciting news in that area.

http://zcodo.com

Freshly Minted Design Challenge

Submitted by mikehostetler on Mon, 03/17/2008 - 09:44

A Mountain Top has been privileged to work with Minted, a new online store. Built on Drupal and QDrupal, Minted will be offering fresh, modern custom stationery and invitations.

In preparation for launch, Minted has announced their first Freshly Minted design challenge. The challenge is to design a sophisticated and modern "Save the Date" card for engaged couples. Cash prizes are being offered for the top 5 designs.

Details are available on Minted.com.

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