17 11 / 2011
My thoughts on entrepreneurship after working for 1.5 years @WePay
Starting a company is sexy as hell. Building a company is the unsexiest thing you’ll probably ever do.
08 11 / 2011
"There’s a culture out here where people don’t commit to doing things, I feel like a lot of companies built outside of Silicon Valley seem to be focused on a longer-term."
22 10 / 2011
"Because we don’t know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that is so deeply a part of your being that you can’t even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more, perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless."
05 9 / 2011
Since when was working at a suicide hotline equivalent to a masters degree in experience?
19 7 / 2011
just tristan.: two years ago, today....
today marks two years since i sent my very first email to dennis and naveen (wow i was such a nerd! ha). naveen sent a reminder to team foursquare today and i thought i’d share it on my blog. Man, how times have changed:
Hey Dennis and Naveen
How’s it going? Hope all is well!
My name is…
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09 6 / 2011
WePay Journey - Part 3
After I joined WePay as an unpaid intern (see parts 1 & 2 of my WePay journey), I began coming into WePay a few times a week to help out. Although my hours required for my internship program were 10 hours/week, I found myself at WePay HQ more than 30 hours/week.
At first, I was doing facebook ad buys for multiple verticals (primarily fraternities and sororities) with a little bit of support/fraud detection mixed in. It was a great way to get my hands dirty in multiple aspects of a business rather than making copies or building chairs like some other students in my eLab class. I was fairly good at it until I had my first “hot lead.” Another student in the program mentioned that his best friend growing up now ran finances for the Central Pacific Snow Club (still quite possibly the coolest WePay user’s I’ve had the pleasure to work with). These guys were massive in membership (300+), did insane trips (think 100+ people to Whistler) and I had an inside guy. So, I did the only thing I could think of.
I cold called the treasurer.
03 5 / 2011
Another reason why WePay is awesome. Check out WePay Giving to see real donation campaigns collecting money for real causes.
