I build things and organizations. Periodically, I ramble on about them here. See https://colopy.com for information about Colopy Ventures.
I build things and organizations. Periodically, I ramble on about them here. See https://colopy.com for information about Colopy Ventures.
Early in the summer, my son and I started experimenting with a Raspberry Pi. Among other projects, I coded up JoeBotBot as my alter ego Twitter bot and, every day, automagically spout out morning motivations and grant a “Certificate of Awesomeness”. Ariana Grande won on Wednesday. Congratulations, Ariana. Please add this award to your LinkedIn […]
Yesterday, I had the pleasure of speaking with e-commerce guru Gavin Jocius of Wisdom.MBA and River Wise Ventures. We discuss Bronto, GrepBeat, Jurassic, and everything in between. We also geek out on the future of marketing tech. I have known Gavin since 2006 when he was with Duke University, an early Bronto customer. In fact, […]
Lately, I have been tinkering with Raspberry Pis with my 12-year old son as a way to get him more into coding and building tech. Raspberry Pis are neat little computers produced by the Raspberry Pi Foundation, a UK-based non-profit that wants to inspire more kids and hobbyists to tinker with computers. It is all […]
Recently, Donald Thompson of Walk West invited me on his podcast. We chatted about my pre-Bronto adventures and post-Bronto life with GrepBeat, Jurassic, and NCSSM. Donald is a great interviewer and we got into how startups really get started and why Silicon Valley is not all that. This podcast is less than 40 minutes long […]
Recently, I had the pleasure of being a guest on Ritwik Pavan’s new podcast, “In The Meeting.” Ritwik is a senior Comp Sci and Business student at UNC-Chapel Hill and a couple-times entrepreneur through Linker Logic Technologies and VADE. Because of this, he brings a unique perspective on the entrepreneurial experience and asks great questions. […]
The other week, I had the pleasure of speaking with Elizabeth at Hatchit about me, Bronto and Colopy Ventures. Hatchit is an online marketplace for buying and selling online ventures and digital assets like small businesses, websites, apps, domain names, etc. It was co-founded by Dennis Schaecher in North Carolina. Read more about them. Listen […]
Recently, I had the pleasure of joining Drew Adams on his podcast, “The Price”, to tell the Bronto Story, including the emotional ups and downs in starting, building and selling a business. He is a great interviewer so it makes for a nice long leisurely listen. I have known Drew for years since many moons […]
A few years ago, I spoke with the founders, Max and Connor, of Lessonly to give them advice on scaling their business and moving from a broad customer focus to a narrower one. Protip: Less is more. Max recently wrote about this conversation in his weekly advice message. You can read the post on their […]
Last month, I had the honor of being the keynote speaker for the MBA@UNC commencement. MBA@UNC is the online MBA program for the Kenan-Flagler Business School at UNC Chapel Hill. I speak fairly often. Sometimes it is good. Sometimes it is random. This is one of the good ones and worth a watch. I start […]
Last Thursday, after selling Bronto four years ago, we hosted a reunion at the Unscripted Hotel in Downtown Durham. Participation was amazing and it was like zipping back to the Golden Age of Bronto for just one more night. The enthusiasm at the event was a true testament to the strength of the Bronto culture […]
