Matt Warren

This week I’m finding myself on a surprise trip to California to meet the team that I’m going to be working with for the next little while. This time I’m integrating in with a well financed SV startup company. In many ways it feels like an episode of Silicon Valley – fully stocked free kitchen, […]

So, as mentioned in a previous post we have been long debating what to do about a boat/cottage/RV/car purchase. The final resolution was to hold off on all those extras and focus on simple road trips with a mix of hotel and tent camping.  With that in mind, what we had considered as a budget […]

For the better part of a year now, I’ve had a nagging question on my mind and a consistent conversation discussion with Heather about big purchases. The idea of buying a sailboat was on my mind for quite a bit last year after having done some sailing lessons.  I looked at a bunch of options […]

I started a logo contest tonight to help get my new website a good identity. I’m pushing through with some investments in this business to give it the best chance of success I can muster.  This will replace the placeholder logo I currently have for Fosterous. This weekend I managed to get the server spun […]

My current project is picking up. The more I think about it the more excited I become about the potential value that will be created with it. Things took a significant step forward on Friday with a meeting with an accountant firm and corporate lawyer.  I’m taking the weekend to think through the options they gave […]

My current side project is a bit bigger in scope than I had imagined when I set out my goals at the beginning of the year. With any large project it can be difficult to stay focused and passionate about continuing to work on it. For this project, the more I think about it, the […]

Last week I attended a local entrepreneurship discussion and mentoring event to dip my toe in the water, do a bit of networking and learn a thing or two about the topic for the night which was accounting for small businesses.  I wasn’t exactly sure what to expect, but found myself unprepared for what turned […]

For a little over a month now I have been going deeper with one of the ideas that came out of my brainstorming week.  I started building the prototype which should be ready for launching in mid-May.  I’m not going to spoil the launch too much, but the idea is about the sustainability of the […]

Humans are prone to many biases.  It’s one avenue of psychology that I find valuable because it helps you to question your own decisions to logically arrive at demonstrably better ones. People are driven to seek simplification to a fault.  It’s a bias that causes us to make bad decisions. “Everything should be made as simple as […]

Seems like it was a long winter this year, but now in mid-April the snow is finally mostly gone and flowers are starting to pop out of the ground. One of the things that I decided this winter was to plan a vacation somewhere warm to break up the cold weather next year.  So that’s […]