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Vitoto Officially Shutting Down
2012 – San Francisco… Vitoto was a failure. It feels good to say that. There has been an air of uncertainty around the state of the company for the last few weeks, its nice to make a decision. Firstly, I am proud of myself for taking the shot. “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”—…
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Product Idea: Hairdresser Poncho with a Clear Window for Phone/Magazines
So I went to the hairdresser today and… you can probably guess the rest from the post title. I wanted to use my phone while getting a haircut and started to think why there was no clear window in the poncho so I could use my phone without getting hair all over it. This kind…
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Startup Idea: Evernote for Spreadsheets
Someone needs to make this or Evernote needs to integrate spreadsheets into their platform, because my current spreadsheet experience is pretty poor. I currently have 13 Excel Spreadsheets open, 6 Google Doc Spreadsheets and 2 files open in CSV file editor. Why is there no solution for me to manage this? Here are the reasons…
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How to get Asana (and other web apps) onto your Taskbar
I was so happy when I found this I just had to share it. I LOVE this trick. Basically, it allows you to add browser based web apps to your task bar when using chrome. This is what it looks like: Below is a YouTube video that shows you how to do it. Takes…
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Ingredients of a Successful Bootstrapped Startup?
I’ve been meeting lots of people and getting lots of feedback here in San Francisco. Here are some of the consistent ingredients of successful startups I have collected from observation and feedback. Note, these elements will probably not leave you with the next Facebok, but just know, for every Facebook, there are 1001 companies who tried to…
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Idea: Create Separate Instances of Browsers for Separate Web Apps
I always get lost in my browser tabs. I am a heavy heavy internet user and often find myself with 20-40 tabs open at a time in Chrome. Many of them running web apps that I like to keep open all the time: Multiple gmail accounts Google Calendar Google Docs (Drive) Asana HasOffers Cacoo The…
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App Idea – Turn iPhone’s into Public Hot-spots
So you already know that you can turn your iPhone into a hotspot, but a PUBLIC one? that anyone can use? Here is the idea. Its an app that allows you to create a public hotspot that anyone can access with NO password. But for the user to access the hotspot, they need to watch…
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Vitoto Editing Features Launched
We just released an update to Vitoto which includes the ability to edit your videos, its bad ass. Check it out at Vitoto.com Or on the iTunes App Store.