Danny Boice

Article I wrote for The Wall Street Journal Recently

It’s about how we won the Pitch Jam contest at SXSW this year and got my co-founder an ass tattoo in the process

Startup UX & Design Demystified

Check out my post on the 500 Startups blog explaining the difference between User Experience and Design disciplines.  I also give examples of ux and design deliverables as we built our new Speek iPhone app.

Startup Tech Demystified

Check out an article I wrote recently for PandoDaily

Speek announces our $1.2mm+ seed funding round!

New article - Hiring Is A Dog From Hell

My latest piece for Tech Cocktail went out today.  

It’s all about hiring developers and designers.

Still not convinced to read it?  Here is a choice quote from my article:

“I don’t want to hire people that look like me. It’s not that I’m not good-looking (if you’re into the whole chubby, bearded, tattoo type), it’s about culture. We proactively strive to build a melting pot of gender, ethnicity, and race. From a non-selfish perspective, this is the morally correct thing to do. From a very selfish perspective, this is a genius thing to do; having a diverse team will help you make better, smarter decisions, which will make your startup more successful, which will in turn make you lots of money. You’re not a communist hippy, are you? Good, hire a diverse team.”

BOOM

Me and Virginia Lee giving a demo of Speek at Mobile Dev East 2012

Panina Press: Better Entrepreneurshit Than Corporateshit

paninapress:

Two blogs posts I’ve read recently have really cheered me up. You may have read them:

• Entrepreneurshit
• Corporateshit

Entrepreneurshit by Mark Suster

“You probably follow some high-profile entrepreneurs on Instagram and Twitter and see conference pictures of them in…

My guest blog post on Startup America Partnership

speekblog:

You aren’t in a cubicle by your computer all day, so why not use Speek on the go? Well, now you can with our NEW SMS FEATURE!

The next time you need to join a call on the go, text the Speek Link (example: “Danny”) to 571-814-5471, wait a few seconds and Speek will connect you! This trick works with any Speek Link. For example, if the Speek Link you were trying to join was www.speek.com/danny, you would text “Danny” to the number above.  Within a few seconds Speek will call you back on your mobile phone and put you on the conference call. Capish? 

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speekblog:

Our Product Monkeys have come to terms with the lovely iPhone! Now, all you have to do to join your call is type in the appropriate Speek Link into your iPhone browser and the above screen will pop up. Once you see this screen, just click on the button and you’re in the call! Easy peasy lemon squeezy. 

-The Speek Team  

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