So much happened in 2011 that it’s tough to cover it all but I’ll briefly go over the major events in this post. Bidsketch… Unfortunately, I didn’t write down my 2011 goals but I there were so many things that happened with Bidsketch that were amazing. Some of it was hard work and some of [...]

I had the huge honor of being interviewed on Mixergy and the interview went live today: http://mixergy.com/ruben-gamez-bidsketch-interview/ I’m very excited about the interview because I’ve been a long time fan P.S. Questions/comments/etc. on the Mixergy site appreciated.

The USPS has a weird system for mail carriers that want to transfer to another post office. Rural carriers can’t directly ask for a transfer, they must go out and find another carrier to trade offices with. I mention this because my wife works for the post office and we were recently looking to move [...]

It’s been a while since my last post where I talked about quitting my job so I figure I’m due for an update. Lots has happened since I quit my job and I’ve almost settled into a routine. Don’t really have a routine yet because of the big move to Washington state. Moving… Yep, I’m [...]

I’ve been waiting for this day for a long time it seems. I had thought of all kinds of scenarios for how I might do it and what I might say but nothing prepared me for what actually happened today. I’m still in a bit of shock and I haven’t processed everything yet but it’s starting [...]

I’m quitting my job. Yep, tomorrow is the day that I give notice at my day job. I’m blogging about it to have a written record of the whole thing because it’s such a major event for me. I’ve worked at my job for a long time — just over nine years. I can’t say [...]

This is part two of a post on making 1k/month while working nights and weekends for a year. This is based off a Hacker News thread that was started a while back. My previous post mostly covered why many of the suggestions were so bad. This one will talk about what it takes to survive [...]

A few days ago I came across a Hacker News post that asked the following: Can I build something within that 1 year which starts giving me $1000 profit every month? An important constraint here was that this was strictly a nights and weekends project because he has a full time job. The answer of [...]

Over the last few years I’ve heard entrepreneurs talk about how ideas are cheap, it’s the execution that matters.  You can even find things like this SAMBA blog post offering proof of how easy and worthless ideas are: http://www.sixmonthmba.com/2009/02/999ideas.html I don’t agree. While there’s some truth there, it’s just not accurate. Ideas do make a [...]