Dan Shapiro

I've been wearing Pistol Lake tees and henleys since their first kickstarter campaign - can't wait to try out the new fabric.

Thanks so much all! Really enjoyed the excellent questions. I'm @danshapiro on twitter and busy hiring at glowforge.com/jobs if you want to learn startups from the belly of the beast. :)

A question from the PH slack channel: Kevin Ferret [3:34 PM] I am not sure how to formulate that one, but based on your experience as CEO (and the fact that you suffered/enjoyed IP), what would be your suggestions to manage-up such a CEO ? maybe to reformulate : what would have made your life easier as CEO, coming from your employees/execs/co-founders ? For me, I loved it when people came to me...

(And now I'm going to start replying inline like a normal human being, sorry about that. )

I think "Internet of Things" is like when people used to talk about 'hybrid media'... both paper and a website! How novel and exciting! Software is perfuming everything. Sometime's it's lovely and often it stinks. But the barriers between tangible and bits are falling, and nothing's going to change about that except it's going to cease to be novel and strategic, and start to be everyday table...

OK, having that taken care of - I'm going to start at the top and work my way down. Erik, the thing that killed me when I was starting my first company was that I thought I was alone in everything. Am I the only one who can't get along with my cofounders? Why am I the only startup CEO who doesn't know how a balance sheet works? It was only after years I realized that everyone was pretty much...

This is the part of the AMA where chrome hangs and I have to restart it. :)

This is magnificent - can't wait to get started! If you'd like a sneak peek of what's in the book, here are some links with freebies you can skim before the AMA (or during, if I turn out to be dull): * https://medium.com/@danshapiro/startup-ceo-imposter-135638635fe6 * http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/oreilly/booksamplers/9781449360733_sampler.pdf

I love the heck out of my Pistol Lake shirts. They look great and they're super comfortable. I backed them on Kickstarter at the start and I'm in for one of the sweatshirts now.

I had to borrow an iphone to try this out (yeah, android guy). Totally worth it. Beautiful and useful.