Last July, I left a six-figure salary to work with a friend, Eric Lu, on starting a company. It didn't work. We had to try out multiple ideas before we found one that stuck. Now that we’re running a thriving startup, Eric and I both know that

A blog about entrepreneurship has been the highest return on investment for my startup. Popular posts have driven leads worth hundreds of thousands of dollars to our website with little engineering effort. In this post, I’ll share some strategies and tips for blogging for the tech community. Background I’

Last week, I was asked by a talented engineering candidate about my startup’s paternity leave policy. In this post, I’ll share how I designed a paternity leave policy for other clueless early-stage startup CEOs. Background I’m the CEO of a seed-stage startup called Kapwing [https://www.kapwing.

In the beginning, all we wanted was to eat ramen on our own dime. Now, we’ve raised $1.7 million [https://www.kapwing.com/blog/kapwing-press-release-06-16-2018/] from Silicon Valley VCs. In this post, I’ll tell the story of why we decided to raise money from investors for our

Last week, we announced Kapwing's seed round publically [https://www.kapwing.com/blog/kapwing-press-release-06-16-2018/]. Like most startup founders who have just closed a financing round, we’re thrilled to have found investors and optimistic about the future. But I also feel that these reports paint a misleading picture

Company founded by two former Googlers aspires to make short-form video production a quick, intuitive task for everyone rather than a specialized, full-time profession SAN FRANCISCO, CA. — July 16, 2018 10:03AM — Kapwing, the popular video editing website, announced today that it has raised $1.7M seed round to expand