Resources

Here are some resources that I use regularly.

Entrepreneurship

Jersey Shore Tech Meetup - Our local tech meetup group which is mostly about the startup life with a little bit of tech mixed in.  Come join us and mingle with movers and shakers in East Coast Tech

Running Lean - The most practical book on how to implement a customer development & lean startup methodology

Mixergy Premium – Filters out so much noise.  Get your hands on some of the most valuable information and advice for startups period.  I’m a yearly subscriber.

Udacity – How to Build a Startup Course (EP245) - Amazing course on startup building!

General Web Development

Jon Kragh Starter - A collection of CSS, JavaScript and Html that I created as a starting point for web projects.

Knockthrough.js – A debugger that I wrote for Knockout.js

Google UX – Mirrors my beliefs in UX

http://formalize.me/ – Kick start your forms awesomeness (from Nathan Smith creator of 960.gs)

Bootstrap from Twitter – Jon Kragh starter is based off of this

.Net & Asp.Net MVC

Squishit - Awesome JS and CSS minifier and combiner – covers a lot of extra little details that other minifiers do not.

http://www.dotlesscss.org/ - .Net port of the Ruby Less Css Library

http://ravendb.net/ - Raven DB a document database for .Net

Phil Haak’s Asp.Net MVC Route Debugger - Very useful for troubleshooting routes that are not working in ASP.net MVC

Development Tools

My Visual Studio Theme – This is a theme I created and use every day in Visual Studio

Balsamiq – A must have mockup tool

Resharper – I used coderush for a long time and for me, Resharper is much better.

Marketing

The complete guide coming soon.

Photography

 

Apple Aperture - This is the easiest program for my workflow with photos.

 

 

I’m demoing Adobe Lightroom and so far it the quality of the photos is superior to Aperture.

Music

Gearslutz – The best place to talk about music production

Tech Podcasts

TechZing – my favorite tech podcast – mostly about nothing at all but I love it.

Stack Exchange Podcast - Joel & Jeff – usually pretty entertaining

My Reading List

Best books I’ve read (coming soon)

 

Books I’m reading (coming soon)

 

Books I would like to read

The Best of Guerrilla Marketing: Guerrilla Marketing Remix by Jay Levinson

Influences

Tony Robbins - http://www.tonyrobbins.com/

Dr. Flint McGlaughlin - http://www.flintmcglaughlin.com/

Jeff Bezos - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Bezos

Inspiration

Quotes

“You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.” – Wayne Gretzky

“If you can’t fly, run. If you can’t run, walk. If you can’t walk, crawl. But by all means, keep moving.” - Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Stop feeling sorry for yourself” - My high school football coaches if anyone was dogging it

“No thought has much meaning until it is written or spoken.” – Harry Reasoner

Random Inspiration

2010/01 Michael Bierut from CreativeMornings on Vimeo.

Why Not To Do a Startup – Dave McClure from Seattle20 on Vimeo.