The Personal Website of Jason L. Baptiste - CEO of STUDIO & Author of "The Ultralight Startup".
I've had my personal website on Wordpress since 2006 via MediaTemple.  It even inspired me to start my first company, Onswipe , which started out as a plugin for Wordpress and even powered the iPad version of Wordpress.com for a bit .   So why switch?  Despite
This past weekend, Moonbirds launched an NFT project and has done over 69,000 ETH in volume on OpenSea.  This brought out the crypto bot scammers in full force on Twitter.  Dozens, if not hundreds, of hijacked Verified (!!) accounts are tweeting out phishing links pretending to be Moonbirds.
I co-founded a new company over the past month that’s starting to turn into a small team. At Onswipe, we got a lot of the culture right, but there were many many things we just didn’t do until it was later on. When it’
Facebook just launched Instant Articles today. In short, it allows articles that used to be web links to load as part of the native code inside their native iOS application. I spent a good four + years working on a similar problem with Onswipe – how do we make the web
It’s exciting to see many startups going after big markets like transportation, food, and health. They’re much larger than the typical markets of software – IT budgets or advertising budgets. A good related read on the topic of Total Addressable Market comes from Hunter Walk . Just
Over the past month or so, many have had issue with Twitter and how they’re turning on startups like Meerkat and Datasift. Though it’s unfortunate, these companies are run by smart individuals and they likely never planned to be too dependent on Twitter. The issue isn&
I think local discovery is one of the big software problems we haven’t solved yet. The problem is akin to this – Google helps you find what you need online by putting in a parameter and drives traffic to the online world. No one has perfectly cracked the
As long as beacons require an app, that you probably don't have, there's a fundamental chicken-and-egg problem. — Benedict Evans (@BenedictEvans) January 12, 2015 Benedict Evans had a good tweet earlier today and expressed my biggest concern about iBeacons – it’s a
I’m a big believer in the thesis that software is eating the world. One main driver is the fact that software is so much cheaper to produce and now there are billions, not millions of devices. Those factors don’t describe the core product change that is
The perfect storm for electric powered everything is starting to come about in the same way the internet powered everything revolution came along. Tesla has proved that we can build an electric car, but it’s 2014 and they’re still the only real player in the game.
David Sacks joined Zenefits this week as COO , which is a huge win for the company. David could have done anything he wanted from starting his own company, joining as CEO, becoming a VC,etc. With the announcement, it made me realize that there’s an increasing importance of
I think this is one of the most important things a startup can do – be clever. Most ideas and startups aren’t that interesting when you get down to it. They just try to take a slightly better approach to solving the same problem. It’s not
I’m a big fan of deeplinking – it takes the best of the web, the ability to seamlessly jump from site to site, and brings it to mobile apps. Many such as Facebook, Google, and URX are trying to move deeplinking forward by making it easy for developers
I ask every single founder I get to spend time with one on one, a very simple, yet important question: “What will your product and as a result, the world, look like in 5-10 years if your company is wildly successful?” It seems like an open-ended
The photo for this article shows Gordon Gekko from Wall Street with a cell phone. In the 1980s, this was a toy for the super elite and rich. If you knew someone with a cell phone, they were loaded. Now, 2 billion going on to 4 billion people will have