Archive
The complete, dated index of everything Daniel R. Odio has published — articles, tutorials, short posts and shipped work.
643 posts
2026
- Topic pages and the archive now agree with each other
- Booking test pages now obey the same rules as real ones
- Booking link tests now mirror pages that can really exist
- Stronger checks behind self-correcting booking links
- Cleaner previews and a tidier index for search engines
- A complete archive of everything published here
- Booking links stay honest even when the address bar starts out wrong
- Booking links now always open the meeting you copied
- Topic links now go somewhere useful
- Made a test note self-explanatory
- Simplified a note in the date validation tests
- Corrected an inaccurate note in the date handling code
- Hardened the date checks behind article publication dates
- Very old publication dates are no longer discarded
- Impossible publication dates are now left off rather than guessed
- Article dates now read correctly everywhere they are published
- Articles now show their correct dates in search results
- Steadier link visibility rules
- A plan to make the site easier to find and easier to quote
- Steadier link visibility rules
- Steadier link visibility rules
- No more dead "See the code" links
- Steadier automated tests under load
- Light and dark themes now stay legible on every surface
- Sharper safety tests behind published post media
- A stricter safety net around who can reach admin actions
- Tighter safety checks on media links in published posts
- Editing a post no longer loses its images and videos
- Your contact details now stick the way you leave them
- Your saved details stop getting wiped by the contact form
- Fixed a broken link and brought outside resources home
- A faster way to personalize the site after you book
- Fewer redirects, one dead link fixed
- Your booking details are remembered properly now
- A friendlier booking confirmation
- Invite other people to a meeting when you book it
- Faster, cheaper refreshes of the site's search index
- Share a booking link that opens on the meeting length you meant
- Booking pages now respect your colleagues' calendars
- Draft a post on the site straight from a conversation
- Groundwork for choosing which booking details are required
- Shared booking links now preview the call by name
- Every call type can now book onto its own calendar and copy in whoever needs to be there
- Booking links now stay on the site you booked from
- One rule now decides what the site can search and quote
- Keeping the hand-drawn illustrations visually consistent
- Booking pages now list call options in the order you choose
- A clearer homepage, and illustrations that build as you scroll
- The deployment step now has an illustration that assembles as you scroll
- The rapid-prototyping step now has an illustration that builds as you scroll
- Clearer walkthrough of how a project actually starts
- Finished the proposed second illustration
- Change or cancel a booking straight from your calendar
- Sketch work recovered and a second illustration proposed
- Shipped entries now show their summary, not just a headline
- The discovery-call illustration now opens as you scroll
- Sparkle v0.97.0 — agents that get stuck now hand back to you instead of looping
- The discovery call, drawn as a conversation
- A clearer picture of how the work gets built
- The site can now write itself around you
- The site asks for your details last, not first
- Database changes can now actually be applied
- Refreshing the chat's knowledge of older writing is now fast and cheap
- Restored a check that a recent cleanup had quietly disabled
- A calmer homepage, and a way to book time
- Made a safeguard's input cleanup happen in one place
- A homepage that says one thing
- Ten homepage directions, built as real pages instead of mockups
- Closed the last quiet failure in the content-ordering safeguard
- Fixed an ordering safeguard that could still be misled by a note in the query
- Closed the one ordering case that could have failed quietly
- Simplified an ordering check and wrote down the inputs it is built for
- Simplified an ordering check and fixed a false alarm it could raise
- Strengthened the ordering safeguard against the failure that stays quiet
- Fixed an ordering check that could be fooled by a nested query
- Closed a reopened gap in the content-ordering safeguard
- Fixed a false alarm in the ordering safeguard
- Publishing alerts now clear themselves when things recover
- Closed a blind spot in the check guarding against wasted reprocessing
- Made a test safeguard enforce its own rule instead of describing it
- Made the last unprotected safety check fail loudly instead of quietly
- Closed a gap that could have let stale content stay stale forever
- A reprocessing safeguard now tests the real behaviour, not just the wording
- Removed hidden reprocessing that could have run on every save
- A failed publish now tells you, instead of going quiet
- Fixed a safety check that could never have reported the problem it watched for
- Tightened a safety check so it can't be quietly bypassed
- Made a safety check resistant to going quiet again
- Restored a safety check that had quietly stopped checking
- Renaming a piece no longer triggers unnecessary reprocessing
- Publishing a post no longer risks timing out
- Unpublished writing can no longer surface in chat answers
- Published writing reaches the site assistant right away
- Deleting a live post now needs the publish permission
- Least-privilege keys for automated publishing
- Caught six flaws in the images-in-posts plan before building it
- Designing images and photo carousels for writing posts
- Tightened the permission model behind conversational publishing
- The floating question panel no longer covers the subscribe button
- Groundwork for publishing to the site straight from a conversation
- More reliable one-time setup for connecting social accounts
- Founder guides, secure draft previews, and shipped-work automation
- Building DROdio.com, live
- Introduction to PRD and Chief
- Moved 21 years of writing off Ghost in an afternoon
- Measured Chief's latency and killed my own architecture
- Every agent I run in parallel is a coordination problem I'm choosing to have.
- Fixed a gitignore rule that would have 404'd in production
- Shipped a retrieval enhancement for a software customer
- A budget cap that would have capped at zero
- The default answer to 'we need search' is a second vendor. It usually shouldn't be.
- The Critical Skill Your Company Isn't Teaching You: Navigating AI's Jagged Intelligence
- The Slide Rule Moment: When Better Tools Threatened "Real" Work
- We are Atoms That Were Stars: Bridging Quantum Mechanics, Consciousness and Spirituality
2025
- AI Alchemy, Not AI Slop: Turn Your Engineers' Work Into Your Best Marketing Asset
- Satellite in a Briefcase: My Ultimate Mobile Office with Starlink Mini & Tesla Model Y
- The Cotton Candy Problem: Inhumane AI That Tastes Like Progress
- How I use AI as CEO to gain confidence in approving Eng codebase changes
- When 5-Year-Olds Can Build Apps: Change is Coming
- Vibe CEO-ing
2024
- Surrendering to Ozempic
- Using AI to analyze (and buy) Artificial Intelligence stocks
- Why we keep missing due dates and deadlines -- and how to fix it.
- Part 1: How I use AI day-to-day as the CEO of an AI startup (and you can, too)
- Build the right thing fast, instead of the wrong thing right.
- Actions vs. Outcomes: Distinguishing between the two
- Converting Starlink to a 12V "always on" system (Updated!)
- Freemium vs. Free Trial: Doing Neither Well
2023
2022
2021
- Going All-In on an Off Grid Workspace
- Inc. Magazine #Vanlife
- Why I Sign Emails with #Velocity
- Welcoming Armory's Next CEO
- Create Your Own WFH Workspace for Under $5k
- Finding Dispersed Campsites To Work (and Play!) From
- Do an Energy Audit
- Using Technology to Support a Small Town Fire Department
- Creating an "Instagram Life" Living Picture Frame
- Adapting to Extreme Climate Events
2020
- Distributed Work: Do the best work of your career
- Is Y Combinator worth it?
- How I prioritize my time
- Tech CEOs: Become a DEIB Accomplice, Not Just an Ally
- My INROADS story
- Understanding and Living Empathy
- Calculating COVID-19’s Possible Impact in The SF Bay Area (and Your Region)
- Still Betting on Elon
- Rip through books in 8 mins
- It's Not All About You: Truly Empowering Your People
- What is Your Leadership Brand?
- DevOps and Big Data are Flipsides of The Same Coin
2019
- How Much Do Relationships, Trust, & Fulfillment Matter in the Workplace?
- Creating an Open Source Culture
- Counteracting the HiPPO problem with a Roundabout culture.
- Creating Magical Human Experiences, with Magic
- Execs and Managers: An Engineer's perspective on Roundabout Culture
- Should I take seed money from a large VC fund?
- The Hard Truth about Unlocking Innovation
- Creating a Roundabout Culture
- DROdio .Readme
- Powering the Third Industrial Revolution (aka Why I Go to Work Every Day)
- How Many Golf Balls Fit in a Bath Tub?
- My Work, Parenting and Life Rules
2018
2017
2016
2015
- Software dominates industries like the fire breathing dragons in Game of Thrones
- Build Your Startup Like a Matryoshka Doll
- Leverage The Last Mile
- What I've Learned After a Year of Prioritizing My Health
- Beyond Fasting: The Ketogenic Rabbit Hole
- 15 Month Performance Review: Betterment vs. Wealthfront vs. S&P500 vs. Other Options
- Optimize the Passive Income on Your Short-Term Cash
- Fasting Update: Three Months In
- Elon Musk goes Back to the Future
- Behind The Scenes of the 2015 Buring Man Temple of Promise
- The Forest vs. The Trees: A Story About Focus
- Betterment vs. Wealthfront: Which One Will Maximize Your Wealth More?
- One Year In: Lending Money to Complete Strangers via an API... And Why You Should Try It
- Life In the Fast Lane: My Experiment with Intermittent Fasting for Health and Fitness
- Do Less, Better
- Marketing Your Startup by Giving Out Stock Options
2014
- Need vs. Want
- High Fives and Arash's Story
- Negotiation Pro Tip: Creating An Obligation
- Zuck in 2005: No plans for world domination, but the product/market fit to get there.
- How Are You Spending Your 700,800 Hours?
- Show Me The Money: Six Strategies to Put Your Cash to Work
- WhatsApp's Journey From Being Ignored To a $19 Billion Exit
- "Product Prioritization System" at Pandora
- It's settled: Native Wins over HTML5. For now.
- Quantifying Self by Counting Steps: Jawbone UP vs. Fitbit Flex
- First Round Capital's 'Review' is Now a Must-Read Publication for Entrepreneurs
- The Future of Customer Loyalty: Dynamic Pricing with a Hedge
2013
- The Secrets Behind Spotify's Product Success
- Hey Managers: Show Me The Last Thing You Created
- A Startup's Perspective on Time
- Musings on the State of the (App) Developer Nation
- Finally: Making Advertising Relevant
- Should Gurbaksh Chahal have been fired by his board?
- Dissecting Coin's Massively Successful Product Launch
- Reasoning from First Principles: A Framework for Disruptive Innovation
- Berkeley Haas MBAs visit ShareThis to talk startups, social media & entrepreneurism
- Transform Your Meetings, with Hackpad
- Hello World, Baby DROdio!
- Creating a Process for Process
- The Value of Going Deep instead of Wide
- When valuable employees quit/resign
- Fun In The Woods With The XP Camper V2 Prototype
- Overlanding Mecca: 2012 Overland Expo in Flagstaff, AZ
2012
- The XP Camper: Truck Campers, Reimagined
- Hallmark RV: The best of the soft-side pop-up campers
- Outfitter Pop Up review: Good designs, poor quality control
- EarthRoamer Expedition Vehicles
- Phoenix Pop-Ups: Truly custom, but questionable workmanship
- Find The 'Yes' By Starting With The 'No'
- Using Geeky Tools to Plan for Our Birth
- Creating an AngelList Syndicate
- Matter: Powering the Next Generation of Breakout Media Companies
- Focusing on Focus: Why We Sold AppMakr
- Remote Always-On: Connecting Our Offices with Sqwiggle
- Accelerating Innovation: Turner & Warner Bros Create Media Camp
- Panel: Changing the Conversation: Should Mobililty Rewire Your Social Strategy?
- Founders: Stay out of Fundraising Prison
- Focus on Steaks on Tables, not Table Stakes
- The Rise of the Internet of Things
- The Future On My Face: My First 48 Hours with Google Glass
- No Sloppy Thinking: A Framework To Achieve Your Goals
- What Does It Take To Be a Great Dad?
- Ideas Are Like Sperm
- Tile is Lojack for Anything
- This Is Why Focus Is So Important
- The Magical Power of Audio APIs
- This Is Why Mobile Wins: iPad Mini is 151x Faster than Hotel Wifi
- No, really. It doesn't have to be perfect. Just get it launched.
- Elon Musk Pwns Fisker Karma and Better Place
- Apple helps Microsoft: iOS 7 flatters Windows Phone 8
- A 9th Grader Takes a Leap that Terrifies MBA Students
- What Gets Me Hot & Bothered: Crypto Currencies, Drones and 3D Printing
- Yeah, Mobile Is Just a Fad
- There are 2 types of mobile engagement: Inherent vs. Enhancement. The CMO of Home Depot has it nailed.
- Hacking Google Glass: dSky9 Demos Starfinder App in its Glass Simulator
- Mega Trends, Social TV, Liberating Data & More at the Mobile Outlook 2013 + ApolloMatrix Happy Hour
- Journalists As Hitmen?
- A Raw and Vulnerable Moment: The Hugalopes Story
- Is Entrepreneurism Due To Nature, or Nurture? An Interview with Eric.
- CMOs: Stand Out In The Mobile Engagement Crush
- I Can Do Anything with a MiFi In My Pocket
- Optimizing Product/Market Fit: First Be Proactive. Then Be Reactive.
- Heidi Roizen Calls Me a Cockroach
- Venture Capitalist Vinod Khosla on Perseverance
- My Lyft with Romeo
- Entrepreneurship Is Taught Through Life, Not In The Classroom
- Socialize Was Acquired by ShareThis. Here's What The Experience Was Like.
- Selling Socialize to ShareThis: A Description of the Deal process
- Post-Deal Best Practices In the Socialize Acquisition by ShareThis
- I Rented a Tesla Model S for $25/hr From Getaround. This Was My Experience.
- I'll Show You Mine, If You Show Me Yours... Apps, that is
- How Wendy's Harnesses the Power of Social Advertising
- Managers: Learn To Code
- I'm Betting on Elon
- iPad Mini Keyboard Shootout
- I've Got 10 Invites for SETT. Who Wants One?
- A Warning to Fortune 1000 CEOs: The Mobile Crush Cometh
- Hyper Efficiency 2.0: Updated Lifehacker Tips
- Keep Your Enemies Close... Keep Your Customers Closer
- What are the Deadliest Sins of Software Patents?
- How I Handled Extortion by a Recruiter
- First Look at the New SOMAcentral Startup Space in San Francisco
- Make every morning a deadline, and achieve more
- Get rid of your crushing email overload, once and for all
- Mind blown: What will the next Neolithic Revolution look like?
- Dissecting what went wrong: a Stanford MBA's startup fails
- The Hotel California of cancellations: Audible tries everything to keep me
- GREAT negotiating techniques from NPR: How a hostage negotiator buys a car & others
- My top tips for foreign entrepreneurs
- Shame on me for voting for a retroactive tax in Prop 30
- Introducing Price-Gouging's Uglier Side: Time-Gouging
- I have seen the future, and it's mobile. Just one little problem: Engagement.
- Piloting a new Email "BigDripper" sales tool
- Jeff Bezos was a Nastyass Honey Badger at fundraising
- Get Rid of Grocery Shopping Once and For All, with Instacart
2011
- Tour of Four Wheel Camper Facility
- Facebook: To Friend or Not to Friend
- Make yourself uncomfortable and earn $20
- Vator hosts LivingSocial CTO Aaron Batalion + DabKick at Google Ventures
- From Zero to Hero: Android is Cleaning Up
- Buy Sam a Beer!
- Larry is now Lana: I'm $50 poorer but infinitely richer
- Buying The Unknown: Jefferson's Brass Cojones
- Who Else Wants 1,000 Options?
- Verdict in Sprint vs. AT&T by Blue Octopus
- What if organization and execution were the same thing?
- Learning to Take Insanely Great Pictures
- Dissecting the Massively Over-Subscribed Lockitron Launch
- My Politics Wish List
- Matt talks about the magical "moment"
- Overlooking The Obvious: It's All About Intent
- The Hustler's MBA
- Ping... Pong
- Mobile is not the 2nd Screen. It's the Brains.
- The DGF Principle
- Native Apps vs. HTML5: The Smoking Gun
- SDK Marketing For Developers
- Anticipating The Future When It's On An Exponential Curve
- Learning to Speak and Listen in Actions, not Words.
- Moving from Wordpress to SETT
- When YOU are the brand
- Content Magic: Using SocialCam to Capture & Share Your Expertise
- APIs: Ambassadors of the Tech Industry
- From Kickstarter to Major Toy Deal: The Story of the Hugalopes
- A peek into startup infrastructure-- what goes on back there anyway?!
- Tweet and you shall receive: Chrome Extension for Highrise Deals
- Videos from VatorSpark Gamification Conference
- Packaging & Distribution in the Digital Age: Or, Why Even Grandma Loves Apps
- Content From Two Great DC Conferences
- I moderate 'Mobile Marketing: Beyond The Hype' panel at Mid Atlantic Marketing Summit
- Designing for Social Apps: My presentation at MoDevUX
- Sick co-working space in SF: StartupHQ
- Daniel's Hierarchy of Speed: Get 2.1 Weeks of Your Life Back Every Year
- SDK Adoption: Doubled Our Conversion Click Rates
- Why Facebook's $1 Billion Acquisition of Instagram is Really Good for Socialize
- Turner Broadcasting Wants To Give You $20,000 via MediaCamp Accelerator
- Evolution of a Startup: Lessons Learned
- Great #Startupism Conference in SF
- Are You a 99er? Fear is Keeping You Unemployed.
- Deconstructing AngelList: How to Optimize Your Funding Profile
- Ten How-To Tips to Turn You Into the Coca-Cola of Personal Brands
- Cinegram is really cool
- Fantastic panel at Canadian Music Week: Media on Tablets & Mobile Devices
- Exclusive Peek Inside Tesla's Model S and Model X
- Efficiency Hack: Hybrid hard drive = Need for Speed
- Lifehack: How to deposit a physical check from 2,000 miles away
- Do high school students make better entrepreneurs than MBAs?
- Philz Coffee CEO Spills the Beans
- Unlocking the Secrets Behind the Post-PC Era
- College Students: Our Nation Badly Needs You To Be Entrepreneurs
- You are Not Smarter than A/B Testing
- Make your presentations 237% more awesome with Twitterfall
- Who says Cincinnati doesn't get mobile?
- Why I really love SCRUM
- Massive Productivity Gain: Get all your employees on CloudApp
- Fight to do good work
- OneMarket Startup Space in San Francisco
- 'What's App' panel: Understanding the world of mobile & apps
- Peek Behind the Scenes at Socialize
- Gmail with Rapportive, Highrise & Boomerang = Lifehacker Heaven
- iPad 2 Keyboard Shootout: Finding the best keyboard
- Mobile Security Panel at CES: "Tale of the Tablet"
- Tour of Sportsmobile West Facility in Fresno, CA
2010
- Hacking the Las Vegas Cab Line
- Trick the iPhone into showing all your Google calendars
- How I made the Socialize demo video using an iPad, PowerPinch & a BlackMagic box
- PowerPinch: Hacking an iPad presentation
- Mark Jacobstein - VP Product Management at Qualcomm: Way More Than Hardware
- LavaCon Panel & Presentation: Conference on Digital Media and Content Strategies
- Leading a Scrummy lifestyle: What's often overlooked
- Eating your own dogfood: Google vs. Amazon
- Leading a Scrummy lifestyle: Part One
- Tesla Model S Factory Tour in Fremont, CA
- Killer Panos
- Who's more amazing? Marquese or Matt?
- Make better decisions: Benchmark your startup against 3,200 others
- What the interest graph has in common with fire, cellphones and microwaves
- Future of the App Economy: Distribution and Financing event by AppBackr
- Let's Juice: Comparison of 3 juicers to replace two meals per day
- Jonathanscard: A social experiment, or not?
- Following Joyride's Lean Startup Journey
- Venture Deals: Best fundraising book ever.
- Google Apps + Chrome Efficiency Pro Tips
- Burr Grinder Coffee Adventures
- Awesome pictures of the Socialize crew
- StartupHouse: HOT new Hacker Coworking space in downtown SF + Hacker Hostel
- Daniel on 'Future of Advertising' Panel at VentureBeat's MobileBeat Conference
- Fixing What Facebook Is Missing
- An Ingredient in Startup Mixology's cocktail
- How To Basecamp
- An Argument to Service Providers: Blogging Turns You Into Superstars
- The iPad and Media: Daniel Moderates at Digital Media Conference
- VC Panel at the Digital Media Conference
- Steve Case Keynote Interview at Digital Media Conference + John Trimble of Pandora
- Comscore, CEA & Parks on Stats and Trends at Digital Media Conference
- Fundraising Panel at TechCocktail's Startup Mixology Event
- We Won Disruptathon :)
- Three Events In DC June 16-17, 2011
- Guy, Robert, Naval, George & Valley A-List share knowledge at FounderConference
- Uber: Me and my Driver... ish.
- Microsoft's mobile influencers dinner
- A Hot Second with Dennis Crowley + Girls In Tech Interivew with Liz of AllThingsD
- Groupon, Foursquare, Ngmoco & others speak at SecondMarket Mobile Disruption Event
- Anatomy of a Seed: Daniel's top tips from our $1MM seed round
- Virgin's T2 SFO Takeover: A Fail, For Now
- Mobile Web vs. Native Apps: Daniel Moderates
- 'Cliff Notes on Raising Your First $1 Million Through AngelList' Keynote + Panel
- Moving Beyond Basecamp: Managing Company Growing Pains
- Getting in shape + Epigenetics
- Some Big Thinking about small phones
- This is what happens when you cc lots of people in an email
- Things I know to be true
- Great 2 page spread in Entrepreneur Magazine about AppMakr
- How to 'Hack Your Funding' by Naval Ravikant of AngelList
- Forming a bond: Priceless
- Some honest writing from Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures
- Guest Post: Kairos Society Global Summit
- Here's Why I Endeavor to Capture Content Publicly and Have Conversations On My Blog
- To Your Health: My wish list for company health insurance
- FindBigMail: Sure, I'll pay $4.95 to save $50/year
- Social Media Outlook 2011 Panel
- Michael Benson's Amazing Planetary Images
- Google's Clever Marketing Angle at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona
- Here's $47 worth of awesomeness from AngelList
- Stellar dcMOMO Event: Digital Media and Mobile Content
- Photos Team: You Enabled a Revolution
- New Blackberry Logo!
- Sexy Geek Sheek: Custom URL shortener + CloudApp Vanity URL
- My awesome sub-$500 HD Camera Setup
- Jason Calacanis Quickie Interview at LAUNCH
- Green Goose - Hands down the best company in the LAUNCH demo pit
- Adriana Gascoigne, founder of Girls In Tech quick interview at LAUNCH
- IdeaMensch Interview
- Social Commerce Panel 2011 Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Commerce
- Social Gaming Panel at Goldman Sachs 2011 Technology and Internet Conference
- Online Local Panel at Goldman Sachs 2011 Technology and Internet Conference
- Inspiring young entrepreneurs at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology
- Max Levchin (Google) and Bill Gurley (Benchmark) at Goldman Sachs 2011 Technology and Internet Conference
- Mike Lincoln: How Deals Get Done
- LivingSocial's Tim O'Shaughnessy Rocks Deloitte Event
- 9 for $9 Zinfandel Showdown
- Daniel's Magic Decoder Ring
- Knowledge Building the SAAS way
- State Of Mobile 2011: CEO of Millennial Media + Panel
- Immigration secrets & pro-tips for hiring foreign workers
- How-To: Doing a CES Booth for the first time
- How-To: Making an Interactive Photo Booth for CES
- FounderConference: Adeo Ressi, Drew Houston, Dave McClure give tips;
- Video from iPhone and iPad Developer Night in Sunnyvale
- MobileMonday Silicon Valley: Web apps vs. Native Apps panel
- Jason Calacanis Lets It Loose at FounderShowcase
- SOMAcentral Startup Space in San Francisco
- Got My FoundersCard Today
- Hacker News iPhone App Live
- Playing a Computer like an Instrument
- Motorcycle Stunts at the Pier in SF
- At Apple 2010 Worldwide Developer Conference
- Talk at TJHSST for TjStar Event
- WSJ Social Media Event
- Start with the Why... not the How or the What
- Princeton Entrepreneurs Network panel on 5/11
- Disruptathon mobile event recap
- Social Matchbox Event Rocked!
- NFTE Dare to Dream Gala + Mobile Genius
- On CSPAN for Politics Online Conference in DC
- The Art of Enterprise Web Analytics
- Using a QR code to board a flight
- PointAbout Co-Founders Speak at George Washington University
- Could the 80/20 Principle be Wrong?
- Guy Vidra of The Washington Post event
- PotomacTechWire's Mobile Outlook 2010 Event at Ritz Carlton
- Sam Odio sells Divvyshot to Facebook
- AMA Blogging & Twitter Class Video
- Web Managers Roundtable CMS Event
- Ed Moran of Deloitte on Tech Market Predictions
- How to make a video blog and screencast
- My stance on MBAs working for us
- Venture Capital Outlook 2010 by PotomacTechWire
- And the Secret to being a successful entrepreneur is...
- Notes from FailCon 2010
2009
- The Summit & I/O Ventures in Mission, San Francisco
- The best competitive intelligence for the native & html5 mobile app space
- Tracking What I Eat
- Project Stargate is Live!
- Fundraising Hacks: Interview with Naval Ravikant of AngelList
- Native or Web?
- How to Succeed with Mobile Initiatives
- Video showcasing effective hiring process (honed over 10 years)
- MIT Club of Nor Cal: The State of Mobile Monetization
- AppMakr turns Ning Communities into iPhone Apps
- Project Stargate: "Always On" Skype video connection between remote offices
- Project Stargate Update: SimpleGeo's Implementation
- Mark Cuban plus PointAbout Named Top 100 Private Companies by OnMedia
- East Coast vs. West Coast: The Odio Brothers' Story in the Washington Business Journal
- Nicholas Negroponte at GigaOM Mobilize Conference
- Mayor-Elect Gray: Please Make DC Awesome For Entrepreneurs
- 4 Tools That Will Rock Your World
- Fundraising Cribsheet: Stephen DeBerry of Kapor Capital on deal structures & more
- Fundraising Cribsheet: Guide To The Fundraising Manifesto
- 8.47% of investors I spoke to, funded AppMakr
- Awesome time-lapse icon creation by Jeff Broderick, AppMakr's lead designer
- Emailed Verizon CEO for Resolution to Verizon MiFi Disconnect Issue
- Fundraising Cribsheet: George Zachary of Charles River Ventures Speaks To Entrepreneurs
- Fundraising Crib Sheet: The skinny on angel & venture fundraising
- Go from Zero to Hero at Airports with 3-Way Power Plug
- The cultural barriers to capturing content
- The Evolving Definition of "App"
- Fundraising Crib Sheet: Shai Goldman of Silicon Valley Bank on 'how to find your way in the Valley'
- The F1 GeekSpeed Challenge
- Litmus Test: Can You Be an Entrepreneur?
- AppMakr Party: Sold out, but 10 extra tix for HN readers
- The State of Mobile event at KickLabs
- Panel at Intel AppUp event
- APPNATION event in San Francisco (SF Mayor, Flipboard, Sequoia & others)
- Teleportation is real (seriously)
- 'Fireside Chat' with Evan Williams, CEO of Twitter by Claire Cain Miller of the New York Times
- Twilio Startup Waffles Event + Mirasense Killer Mobile Barcode Scanning
- Augmented Reality by Siamak Ashrafi & Mobile Energy Consumption by Frank Maker
- How I added a GPS unit to my motorcycle, using a spatula
- Lock & unlock your door using your iPhone, with Lockitron
- How I Moderate Panels + Previous Panel Examples
- Mobile Analytics Event at Holocaust Museum
- How-To Series: Blog & Twitter 3/3 at Johns Hopkins University
- Be 15 minutes ahead of your competitor
- Finally: How to leverage social media, right now
- How we got into The Wall Street Journal (and how you can too)
- PointAbout founders Interviewed by George Washington University MBA Students
- Facebook Presents at Web Managers Roundtable
- Projecting Twitter On A Wall
- The Entreprenuers Gut Check
- Twitter Nuke: Unfollow Everyone
- Tips You Can Use, from 37 Signals
- My lecture to MBAs who don't "get it" (but want to) at Georgetown University
- AppMakr Launch: The Craziest Week Ever + Paul Graham's Famous Graph
- Live Streaming from the iPhone
- Embracing ABBA: Focus your time on the things that matter
- Switching from Mail.app to Gmail interface (finally)
- "Brains to Ventures" Dinner & Panel
- Pics of our new AppMakr office in San Francisco
- Being an Entrepreneur = Always On
2008
- How I record videos in the car
- Podcast Interview: Jim Hopkinson of WIRED
- Original Content Really Works: PR=5
- Balsamiq Rocks Mockups
- 14 Tips for Building a Startup Sales Team
- Transcribe your content for 25c/min or less
- A Genealogy of the last name Odio
- How to Price Software
- The University of Virginia Holds Entrepreneurship Competition
- Humans v2.0: Thinking Abstractly and in Frameworks
- Interactive Advertising & Marketing Outlook
- Thoughts from a first-time Juror
- A Week in Manuel Antonio Park, Costa Rica
- Who can make the most from Five Dollars in Two Hours?
- Daniel Speaks at Digital Hollywood
- Kodak zi8 Flip-Style camera rocks!
- Social Media Outlook by Potomac Tech Wire
- Tony Hsieh - CEO of Zappos at INC 500 Conf
- Randal Grahm at Inc 500 Conference
- Doug Humphrey, Digex Founder, at Deloitte
- Want To Be an Entrepreneur? Start Here.
- A/B Website Testing (and possibly the most amazing YouTube video ever)
- Amazing Augmented Reality
- Daniel on AMA Social Media Panel 7/15
- Listen to CBS 60 Minutes in just 30 Minutes
- Daniel on Real Estate Social Media Panel
- Daniel's Social Media Hardware Bag
- Deloitte Event: The State of the VC Market
- PotomacTechWire's Digital Media Conf: Mobile Apps Panel
- Make your Kodak Zi6 or Zi8 (or any flip camera) into a Wide Angle
- Social Media Hardware
- Small Business Social Media Experiment
- How I Hooked Google Voice into iPhone VM
- Massive Twitter Secret: Get 2000+ Followers
- The Banking Crisis, by NPR
- "DROdio" vs. Daniel or Dan
2007
- VA's Commonwealth Competition Council
- Entrepreneurism Essays by Paul Graham
- About "Sticking To It" + Video Blogging
- I Finally "Get" Twitter
- How To Use Twitter
- Making Your iPhone's Speakerphone Louder
- Teaching Entrepreneurism in DC Schools
- NVTC / Equal Footing Panel
- My Thoughts on Networking Events
- Canon SD900 Video Sizes & YouTube
- Come to the DC Entrepreneurship Dinner
- Automating the Transcription of Blogs
- And We're Off to The Races
- LBS = As Big As Google
- Matt is My Hero
- Being Around Smart People
- Global vs. Vertical vs. On-Demand Marketing
- How the Credit Crisis Happened, by NPR
- Reading Your Voicemail, with Callwave
2006
- My Quest for Original Content
- 1-2-3 Punch: Web Leads + Followup
- Entrepreneur = Bending the Rules, Carefully
- Learn to Sell Effectively
- The Importance of Dates & Commitments
- The Power of YouTube vs. Goliath
- The Ultimate in Productivity
- Personalized Mass Marketing
- What Makes an Entrepreneur?
- Why Henry Ford would Love Blogs
- Introducing Maptimizer.com
- Beating Cancer. An Entrepreneur's Approach
- Just Use CTRL+F to Find
- Most Efficient Route
- Betty Crocker = Key to Life?
- The Secret To Getting Really Good Press
- Callwave is Amazing
- Becoming "DROdio-ized"
- The CEO vs. the Hot Dog Vendor
- The "Pick 2" Rule
- Learn, Use & Love Indexing Tools
- My Favorite Quotes
2005
- Thoughts on Human Knowledge
- The Truth about TYPING IN CAPS
- From Addy + SPAM
- Google is your Imaginary Friend
- The Importance of Attitude
- Things To Do Before I Die
- What an Amazing Man
- The 80/20 Rule
- Strategic Ignorance
- Being Aware of Original Awareness
- Waiting For a Trigger
- Switching To A Mac
- Musings on Fear and Expectations
- The Problem with Perfectionists
- Whoever It's More Important To, Wins
- Understanding the Purpose of a Website
- Keyboard Tips & The Industrial Revolution
- Asking Me Questions
- Force Multiplication and Knowledgebases
- What's the Big Deal with Instant Messaging?
- Game Theory is Awesome
- The Best Thing GE Taught Me
- Thoughts on Employee Compensation
- What Type of Credit Card?
- How to Hire People Effectively (Patent-Pending)
- How to reach any CEO
- Make the Food, then Build the Restaurant