Boris Mann’s Personal Blog

Boris Mann’s Personal Blog

Sep 2016

I grew up on Bowen Island (my parents moved there when I was 4).

I grew up on Bowen Island (my parents moved there when I was 4). I feel very lucky to have had a childhood there. I have...
Sep 2016

500 Words A Day: Should you move to Vancouver?

End of day right before I go to bed really isn’t the best time for 500 Words. I’ve already written words in many many ot...
Sep 2016

500 Words A Day: September Rolls In

Without a prompt, I got caught at the end of the day needing to write my 500 words. Is it cheating to write about dinner?
Sep 2016

500 Words A Day: Zooming in on Bowen

When you get this message, stop wherever you are and describe your location in great details (500 words of it). Everythi...
Aug 2016

Why cross-post to Medium?

Why cross-post to Medium? Medium is both blogging interface and network. Just like Tumblr is. Any reason you don’t cross...
Aug 2016

An Idiot, Blogging

An Idiot, Blogging There is a great little post floating around that tells us to Blog, You Idiots. Having recently setup...
Aug 2016

Activating great teams everywhere

Accelerate in this context could mean a number of things: take an existing company and provide some operating capital, ...
Jul 2016

New (& old) communications mechanisms in AR/MR

New (& old) communications mechanisms in AR/MR Interesting to think we’re going to see new takes on email & mess...
Jul 2016

The other time “Head of” titles make sense is when you’re just getting started.

The other time “Head of” titles make sense is when you’re just getting started. Other than CEO and in some cases CTO, ot...
Jul 2016

Ah Ha! at AngelFest 2016

Boris Mann is a COO-for-hire that likes building products and businesses. He is a Founding Director of Open Angel, a non...
Jul 2016

What is a Startup Foundry?

Boris Mann is a COO-for-hire that likes building products and businesses. Signup for his fortnightly newsletter at bmann...
Jul 2016

Hey Alan, this a good post topic that doesn’t get enough ink from a Canadian perspective — for both…

Hey Alan, this a good post topic that doesn’t get enough ink from a Canadian perspective — for both founders & funde...
Jun 2016

A Follow-Up on Using Highrise CRM

Boris Mann is a COO-for-hire that likes building products and businesses. Find out more and subscribe to his fortnightly...
Jun 2016

Sample Consulting Agreement

Have questions about contracting or consulting services? Contact Boris » (who is most definitely not a lawyer)
Jun 2016

A Personal CRM

Boris Mann is a COO-for-hire that likes building products and businesses. Find out more and subscribe to his fortnightly...
May 2016

Google Makes it Clear: Mobile Will be Mass Market VR

HUMAN Bringing you the parts of the future that are ready to work today. We’d love to talk to you: hello@ishuman.co | @IsHumanCo
May 2016

From Flickr to Self-hosted Photos

For the record, I think that Wikipedia or the Internet Archive would be much better homes than Adobe. Thinking about the...
May 2016

If you made this a publication instead of a user account, you could get people to contribute…

If you made this a publication instead of a user account, you could get people to contribute articles. Publications are ...
Apr 2016

IDC Forecasts for VR/AR Hardware Units

HUMAN Bringing you the parts of the future that are ready to work today. We’d love to talk to you: hello@ishuman.co | @IsHumanCo
Apr 2016

If you poke around a bit, you’ll see that there is an existing AR market out there, used primarily…

If you poke around a bit, you’ll see that there is an existing AR market out there, used primarily for business purposes...
Mar 2016

VR will be Mobile

HUMAN Bringing you the parts of the future that are ready to work today. We’d love to talk to you: hello@ishuman.co | @IsHumanCo
Feb 2016

March 16th Event: There’s a Chip for That, presented by ARROW

Interested in sponsoring? Email us info@wwyvr.com Organized by HUMANin cooperation with Wearable IoT World.
Feb 2016

Sample Confidentiality Agreement

I am not a lawyer. Your lawyer will usually provide you a template such as this either for low cost or for free as part of their services.
Feb 2016

Post Parse Prototyping

I’m actually going to end with one more quote from Keith Horwood’s Hello Nodal intro post: I primarily view code as a fo...
Dec 2015

Bots will speak English before they speak JSON

Bots will speak English before they speak JSON AKA How do you know if two replicants are chatting? I responded to Dennis...