Hi, my name is Tristan.

I am not a Rockstar.
I am not a Ninja.
I am not a Grasshopper Herder.

I'm just a guy.

Sometimes I get it right. Sometimes I get it wrong.

Sometimes I can tell which is which.

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I am simultaneously proud and embarrassed to have created something so profoundly silly. I have now earned my title as Part-time Startup Comedian.

I blog about my startup experience here. Yep...made the logo myself.

After much pontification, I have created an equation to fully explain the effect of hiring rock stars and ninjas for your startup.

TweetHerder is a plugin for Wordpress that allows you highlight phrases in your post and turn them into one-click tweet buttons for your readers to tweet. I developed it for

my blog.

AdHerder is a Wordpress plugin for A/B testing ads. I use it on my blog.

Upcoming Projects:

TooManyNinjas.com will be a follow up to startupSQUARE . Stay tuned!

The Invisible Shark is stealthy and hard to see coming.

This is an experiment in the media. Can the crowd tell which news articles are politically biased? (Yes, I reuse the same logo a lot.)

Discontinued Projects:

startupSQUARE was my first tech startup. Manuel Offenberg, Marcel Olsder and I built a community for entrepreneurs looking for advisors and co-founders.

This was an experiment for the LUXr.co program with Janice Fraser.

I used to mentor 14-18 year old entrepreneurs from Oakland Tech with Build.org. It's a great experience and I'd recommend it to anyone. I did it for two years.

KissMobs was a Startup Weekend project. To the best of my knowledge, it is the only Startup Weekend Project that ended the weekend cash flow positive. Unfortunately we didn't continue. There are some posts about it here and here.

Gregarious Narain and I put together this event to help entrepreneurs learn how to pitch investors in a workshop setting with venture capitalists, angel investors, and other experts giving honest feedback.

I like startups. I like karaoke. Great things go great together. 'nuff said.

At the suggestions of Jonathan Nelson from Hackers and Founders, I created a wiki to help people moving to Silicon Valley to start a startup. Then link spammers took it over.