Hello, internet friend. And by friend, I mean heckler. And by heckler, I mean person with both access to internet and interest in finding out if I am, indeed, completely full of shit or whether I’m a nice guy. If you came here to prove to yourself that I am surely guilty of a flaw that invalidates my opinions while, amazingly, validating your own insecurities, you might just find that. Here because you read one of the almost 1,000 posts I’ve written? Thank you! I do this for you. If you are here to contact me, know that I volunteer about 30% of my time toward helping other people launch their projects. Contact me if you think I can help you (or a group you love) out. Yes, I mean that.
For a more traditional bio, please trick your brain into forgetting what I just wrote and read this instead:
Andrew Hyde has a passion for community, writing, travel and startups. He has founded three startups (two failed, one sold and his new focus is on travel). With roots in freelancing and design, he can hold a conversation about best interface practices as well as how to build cabins with hand tools. He is also a marathoner, Ironman competitor, blogger and event organizer. He started Ignite Boulder, TEDxBoulder, Startup Weekend, a food/tech/music conference boco and once spent a flight making a stupid tshirt site that every VC in the world has seen.
His work has been featured in the NYTimes, NBC World News, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Denver Post, INC, Entrepreneur, Daily Mail, Yahoo! and the Nepal Times, oddly. He has written for Laughing Squid, The Next Web and Read Write Web. He is the author (although mostly in name only) of nine patents with variations of the name “Aggregation of an Aggregation System.” What I’m trying to say is that I just hope you are not reading this through an aggregation system, and then aggregating it.
a master server system programmed to receive user credentials, to store the received credentials, and to provide the stored credentials to a browser of a user computer system
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photo by James Azure
Now some notes in not creepy third person:
I love startups. I love making things people use. I love design. I love that things I have created are spreading across the world.
I worked for TechStars for three years. Though this and the brilliant Boulder tech community, my world view is incredibly skewed. All of my friends and colleagues love what they do, work on engaging projects and lead very interesting lives. I am grateful for this.
If I had a bio in a newspaper, it might read:
Andrew Hyde is a minimalist, writer, bootstrapper, designer, user interface builder, user experience creator, thought leader buzzword originator, blogger, politico, biker, runner, backpacker and nice guy.
Andrew Hyde grew up in Sisters, Oregon, went to college in Providence, Rhode Island and split the difference to in Boulder, Colorado for six years. He is now homeless (well, kinda), unemployed (kinda but not really as well) and single (the attractiveness trifecta).
Really random things:
- Hit a double eagle in golf
- Can ride a unicycle
- Can ride a fixie backwards
- Is an Eagle Scout (and Vigil Honor member)
- Has rafted the Grand Canyon
- Built a cabin in Alaska
- Dreams of being on This American Life
- Ironman 70.3 finisher 2x
- NYC Marathon finisher
- Trained crossfit
