In early 2013 I (Miki) stepped down as CEO of Parsecco. Jackson and Peter pivoted one more time before calling it quits for good. Here is a post I wrote on Medium about the end from my perspectiv...
By Miki Johnson The new year is always a good time to take a step back and consider where we’ve been and where we’re headed. If you haven’t checked it out, I love Chris Gillebeau’s�...
By Miki Johnson I joined Toastmasters recently, an organization that helps its members improve their public speaking skills, and gave my first speech to the club on Friday. It was an �...
By Miki Johnson YOU KNOW WHAT’S HARD about being a startup? Admitting you’re a startup and not a “company.” Technically, of course, we are a company. We incorporated; we have a t...
By Miki Johnson Was I nervous pitching Parsecco publicly for the first time to 500 people? Let’s just say that I might have forgotten to say my own name early on. Aside from the ne...
By Miki Johnson I came across Liz Ryan’s brilliant Huffington Post article a last week, RE: How LinkedIn’s implementation undermines its message by forgetting certain human truths . L...
By Miki Johnson Since my last post (which I was ecstatic to see shared more than 800 times on Facebook and Twitter), I’ve had difficulty writing under our old tagline: “A couple sta...
By Miki Johnson I fell off my bike last week. Or rather, I fell on my bike, since I was still very much attached to it when I locked up my brakes and laid it down. As the waves of pain and e...
By Miki Johnson This blog was quiet in mid-March, mostly because Jackson and I were in Austin for SXSW Interactive. It was my first time there, his second, and, as we might have expected, we...
By Miki Johnson I’ve learned over the last few weeks that creating a business, especially of the start-up variety, means you are always pitching—yourself, as well as your idea. Our team ...
By Miki Johnson A good idea is one that lots of people have had before but very few people have acted on. I realized this while Jackson and I were talking, yet again, about creating a bl...