About Dana Hooshmand I’m a life-long hacker, traveller, and learner. Here I write mostly about launching, running, and investing in website and app-related businesses. I also write about whatever else tickles my fancy.
Career No, Don't Get a Job (If You Don't Want) Why you shouldn't necessarily default towards the path of getting a job – It's not for everyone.
Life All the Times I Failed Before I Finally Made It — A Work-in-Progress Story A work-in-progress life story that involves a string of failures, some bright spots, and ultimately, an evolving definition of success that hasn't yet arrived.
Iran The "Sabzi Polo Ba Mahi" slogan in the Iran Protests Explaining the "sabzi polo ba mahi" slogan in Iran.
Business Why I'm Not Responding to your Marketing Email Here's why I'm not responding to your marketing / sales pitch email. You're guilty of one of the below.
Digital Investing — Buying Websites, Apps, and Online Businesses A Failed Empire Flippers Acquisition — What can go wrong An Empire Flippers acquisition failure story — my first and probably my last.
BJJ Going All-In on Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Going all-in on Jiu-Jitsu — why, how I'll do it, and some caveats.
Digital Investing — Buying Websites, Apps, and Online Businesses The (Lousy) Business Case for One Blog Post The business cases for websites/blogs. Why it's terrible, and why we do it anyway.
Business Starting a Startup Is Exactly As Fun as Getting Audited If you want to start your own business, be prepared for the worst parts.
Life What I Learned Getting to a 1000 lb Powerlifting Total How I went from weightlifting rookie to a powerlifting total of 1000 lb (455 kg) in seven years.
Business The Long and Lonely Road of Building Lifestyle Businesses The long and lonely road of lifestyle businesses — how impatience and fear can kill a good business that just needed more time.
Business Ten Better (for most) Alternatives to an MBA Ten alternatives to an MBA that I think are more useful in people's careers.
Life The Joy and Sorrow of Reaching One Hundred Thousand Page views The hardest part of getting to 100,000 monthly pageviews was the mental challenge of believing we could.
Digital Investing — Buying Websites, Apps, and Online Businesses Digital Investing Overview — Buying, Managing, Growing, and Selling Online Businesses An overview of a series of posts website investing, covering buying, building, growing, and selling websites. Sign up inside.
Life Idea: Manage Your Personal Time like a Professional How to get more out of life by managing your personal time the same way a professional does.
Life Reasons Why Not to Vote Trump All the reasons I could stand to find why you shouldn't vote Trump.
Life The Electoral College System Explained Simply The electoral college system explained simply — how it works, why it's broken, what works well, and what needs to change.
Tech How to Replace a BMS in an e-Bike Battery How to replace the BMS of an eBike battery — how to test, buy a replacement, and replace it.
Motorcycles — Buyers guides, Repairs, and Owners' Reviews The Dogs of War: Review of my Ducati 1098S A no-holds-barred review of my Ducati 1098S, only my second love in the history of my motorcycling life.
Life Bain & Co Hot Topics — A Throwback to Not Fitting In A collection of "hot topics" I submitted to the office town hall meetings at Bain & Company while I worked there in Australia, from 2008-2011.
Motorcycles — Buyers guides, Repairs, and Owners' Reviews Reflections on Crashing a Motorcycle Reflections on crashing a motorcycle - my Ducati Superbike 1098S. I was hurt and the motorcycle was damaged, but neither of us was destroyed.
Motorcycles — Buyers guides, Repairs, and Owners' Reviews Understanding Fuel Injection Open Loop and Closed Loop How closed-loop and open-loop modes work in motorcycle fuel-injection systems, and how it relates to your ECU.
Business Nine Powerful Tips to Improve your Business Writing Nine simple and powerful tips to improve your business writing that I wish I was taught (and I teach everyone I can).
Business Creating Amazing Products — Lessons from Mediavine What makes Mediavine outstanding as a company — an amazing product, community, and a raving fanbase.
Motorcycles — Buyers guides, Repairs, and Owners' Reviews Renting a Motorcycle with Twisted Road Rent a motorcycle on Twisted Road, a peer-to-peer motorcycle rental marketplace. Your first day's rental is free.
Motorcycles — Buyers guides, Repairs, and Owners' Reviews Does The Harley-Davidson LiveWire Have Soul? Exhaustive notes about how the Harley Davidson LiveWire (an electric motorcycle) can have a soul: Your soul.
