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.