A speck in the universe. My dogs think I'm pretty neat though. Co-founder/CEO at Raincoat. (Acquired) 🇵🇷
Puerto Rico
Joined April 2013
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One of the weirdest side effects of founding a startup called Raincoat, is the amount of spam I get from companies trying to sell me raincoats. 3-5 a week at minimum.
Today I celebrate the life of my mom. As I mourn your departure today, I celebrate you as you were. Always optimistic. Always full of hope. A fighter who persevered like no other, full of love for everyone and everything. I'll love you forever. Rest in peace mom.
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Once a year, for a rare moment at 7:15 AM EDT on July 8th, 99% of the world's population will be in the Sun. About 6.4 billion people in the daytime, while more than 1.2 billion people experience twilight. How cool is that! Source: earthsky.org
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One of the hardest challenges of a startup or any software project is staying true to your vision, while also dealing with complex trade-offs and opportunities that come along the way. Yet ultimately, uncompromising strategies are usually the ones that scale. A little story…
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Happy 18th Birthday CSS Zen Garden! In May 2003 the Canadian web designer Dave Shea launched a community gallery of websites called CSS Zen Garden.
webdesignmuseum.org/web-desi…
#CSS #InternetHistory
ALT CSS Zen Garden
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Incredible. Brian Armstrong’s HackerNews post looking for a cofounder for Coinbase.
“Because Bitcoin worked out so well. Have fun with that, dude.”
“I don’t think you’ve properly thought this through.”
“I’m gonna call it right now: bad idea.”
news.ycombinator.com/item?id…
I had no idea Puerto Rico had the most negative migration rate of any country in the world at -31.4%. That's pretty wild.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o…
“Diversity of economic background and diversity of worldview in hiring processes is largely ignored for identity-based diversity.” — @NaithanJones
So painfully true and for those in the outsider group it's one of the loneliest feelings ever.
link.medium.com/9SuwzGJs16
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Nobody talks about failure in Silicon Valley, yet 90% of startups fail.
Why?
3 yrs ago, @neerajberry and I shut down @Sprig, which raised $60M from @GreylockVC + @socialcapital & grew to $20m revenue.
Then, it all fell apart.
For an honest story about failure,
**Read on**
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"If you don't have a deep understanding of why you're growing, you're closer than you think to not growing anymore." -@bmrothenberg firstround.com/review/from-z…
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Next meetup! ... Hacking WebApps por @gcollazo
eventbrite.com/e/hacking-wep…
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Employers will do almost anything to find workers except pay them more latimes.com/business/hiltzik…
That feeling when you find a picture of yourself from the first #prtechsummit (5 years ago) in the "Puerto Rico Economic and Disaster Recovery Plan". It's insane how much things have progressed since then. @giangonz @rjgonzo @angeltheviera @jramphis p3.pr.gov/assets/pr-draft-re…
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The div that looks different in every browser codepen.io/MartijnCuppens/pe…
