Ask me anything
-
After many months of negotiation, I’m proud to say that Sal Randazzo and I have licensed our side project, NYUMobile, directly to NYU. We didn’t start the project with intensions beyond teaching ourselves how to make an app while solving a niche need for students. I wouldn’t have guessed my learning curve would be extended to crash courses in law and business. We were lucky to be aided by Roy Jacobs at Robinson Brog Leinwand Greene Genoveses & Gluck P.C. And I was fortunate to be aligned with Sal and Ricky.
The experience affirmed a feeling of happiness to be living right now. The growing power, versatility and accessibility of the boxes, which sit on our desks and rest in our pockets - is nuts. The abundance of blogs, streaming videos, forums and other free/cheap resources, which practically hand-hold you through making something from nothing - blows my mind. Add to that, the relative ease to independently* distribute whatever that something is, or convert those tutorialed skills into financial gain - and things really start to take shape. Not to mention, what you make just might improve a corner of someone else’s day.
Yes, ok, it’s 2012. This is all well blogumented and my disposition is overly rosy, if not naive. I’m not saying it’s all easy, quick, or without some serious downsides. For better or worse, I loose a lot of time absorbing dumb crap on those very advanced boxes.
Still, I’m just a bit more awed by the possible of now.
*Though, I certainly learned a bunch about the restrictive bureaucracy of Apple’s app store, which bummed me out.
