What Does the Future of Work Look Like After COVID-19?
COVID-19 has forever changed how we approach work. When the pandemic began, Dogtown Media said goodbye to its Los Angeles-based development headquarters for the past decade. We left this office, moved the entire team to remote work, and don’t have any intention of going back. The future of work has changed, and we’ve changed with […]
4 Remote Work Tips To Help Your Team Adapt To The ‘New Normal’
Original Article Featured in Forbes. We live in a time of uncertainty. It has been a year since the global Covid-19 pandemic started, but there doesn’t seem to be an end in sight. Has your business adapted to this “new normal” yet? Before the pandemic, Dogtown Media, my mobile app development firm, had a mixture of […]
5 Ways to Stop Skipping the Hard Questions of Entrepreneurship
Original article featured in Entrepreneur. Being passionate is human nature, particularly when you’re running your own business. But when that excitement takes the reins — something that routinely happens, for instance, when billionaire Elon Musk hops on Twitter — problems can result. In the past two months alone, Musk’s musings have led to his removal as chairman […]
4 Remote Work Tips To Adapt Your Business To Changing Circumstances
Original Article Featured in Forbes. Our society has been disrupted by the novel coronavirus. Around the world, airline flights have been grounded, communities have slowed to a crawl and countless lives have been affected. In the U.S. alone, we’ve harbored more than 2 million COVID-19 cases. It’s no wonder numerous companies (such as Twitter and Square) are encouraging […]
In An Age Of Disruption, Your Team Is Your Best Asset: Here’s How To Cultivate It
Original Article Featured in Forbes. Leonardo da Vinci designed a robotic knight more than 500 years ago. The term “artificial intelligence” was reportedly coined at Dartmouth College in the 1950s. Modern, commercial virtual reality first appeared during the arcade boom of the 1980s. According to Business Insider, the internet of things (IoT) is as old as the first wearable headsets from the late 1990s. Notice a pattern? Most […]
The Best Time to Start Your Tech Business Is Right Now — You Just Need the Passion to Do It
Original Article Featured in Thrive Global. It was 2007, and Steve Jobs had just announced the launch of Apple’s App Store to the world. After seeing and hearing him talk about this new technology, I was completely inspired. I had no idea what was ahead of me, but I knew what I wanted to do: […]
Here Are 5 Ways to Work When Life Unbalances You
Original article written by Dave Kerpen for Inc. Magazine There is a proven correlation between our happiness and productivity. Of course, sometimes whether or not we’re happy isn’t up to us. When your situation rules out happiness, it’s time to revise your strategy. If you relieve a little pressure, you’ll find the balance needed to keep your head up […]
What Does Microsoft’s $7.5 Billion Acquisition of GitHub Really Mean for Tech?
In a big turn of events, Microsoft, known a few years ago as a strictly proprietary code company, bought open-source code platform, GitHub, for $7.5 billion. GitHub, which has 28 million members, is a cloud-based software development host. GitHub is the Seattle-based tech giant’s third largest acquisition yet, trailing behind Skype and LinkedIn. Many industry […]
Here’s What Uber Wants Its Flying Taxi to Look Like
Even though driverless cars still have a plethora of kinks to work out, Uber’s already thinking of how to make flying cars a possibility. The company is using several aircraft equipment manufacturers to create a customized flying taxi design for consumers. Called the Common Reference Model (CRM), the new product, revealed at Uber’s Elevate Summit in Los […]
The Major Highlights from Google I/O 2018
This year’s Google developer festival, the I/O conference, showed that the shift to ‘AI-first’ for the company was in full swing. Held each year in Mountain View right outside of San Francisco, the event has served as an opportunity for the tech titan to demonstrate why it’s still leading in innovation. 2018’s I/O showcased the recent fruitions […]