Nick Fogle

Startup Life

Wavve Business Updates

So much of a startup's success and failure really does come down to timing. 2020 was a booming year for content creators and Wavve benefited directly from that surge. We nearly doubled in the 12 months since lockdowns began.

Startup Life

Improve Retention with ChurnKey

Over the last year, we decided to take everything we've learned about user retention and make our tools available to other SaaS businesses.

health

Keto Skeptic to Zealot

When I finally decided to get serious about my health, I set some radical goals. The keto diet is like finding a cheat code for fat loss.

Goals

Six Pack Abs in Six Weeks

After a decade of horrible nutrition and inconsistent exercise, I was fat and experiencing a number of concerning health issues. Here's how I reversed 10 years of physical decline in six weeks.

Student Loans

Tips to manage your student loans

There are some important tips minimizing interest, accelerate your debt repayment speed, and maximizing your long-term wealth.

Student Loans

Set a goal to pay off your debt

Goal setting is vital if you want to tackle six figures of student loan debt. Without a clearly defined goal, you’re just hoping that somehow you’ll get out of debt at some uncertain point in the future.

Student Loans

Should I Pay Off My Student Loans

I want to motivate you to tackle your debt instead of avoiding it. Think about what you've already given up due to student loans.

Student Loans

How to pay off six figures in student debt

If you're feeling hopeless and don't know where to start to pay off that mountain of debt, what follows should be all you need to know to understand your debt, get motivated to attack it, and create a plan for totally paying it off in 5 years.

Student Loans

Student Loan Tools

Free student loan calculators to help you design the perfect plan for getting out of debt.

Startup Life

Launching Casa

It's a miracle we were able to pull this off. There we were, building a bitcoin focused business with minimal runway, and VCs were on the whole blockchain-not-bitcoin train. Plus, most of them were headed home for the holidays and wouldn't be back until the new year.

health

What it's like to have asymptomatic or mild covid.

My son's daycare teacher tested positive for COVID-19, so I had to get him tested before he could return. We went to urgent care on Sunday, July 12th. There was a long wait, so I decided I'd go ahead and get tested since I was already there. I had some

health

Personal Covid-19 Tracker

I started prepping in February when it became clear that this thing wouldn't be contained. My colleague Hector summed up the divergence in thinking between health care professionals and the paranoid, prepared-for-anything crew at Casa. Me: We’re prepping Wife: you’re crazy Me: 🦠📈🇨🇳☣️🌡🚜🚜🚜🏨☠️🔥@balajis 🛳⛔️🛫🙈🙉🙊 Wife: my FB group is

Law

Why you need an LLC

If you run a business without liability protection, you're risking financial ruin.

Programming

Code is just language

Code isn't just for math nerds 🤓. If you're good at language, you can be a great programmer. Growing up, I tended to favor language over mathematics. In high school I loaded up on French and Spanish while skipping out on advanced math. I loved computers and technology, but I just

Reflection

Bailing Water

In 2008, I traded a difficult situation for a more difficult one - law school and six figures in student loans.

Learning

How long should it take to learn to code?

I'm someone like you. Not a guru. Not an influencer. (the last thing i posted on Instagram was a hamburger like 6 years ago). In 2012, I was under a mountain of debt and making minimum wage as a shuttle driver.

Startup Life

Wavve Origins and Lessons

There are some months that turn an entire company around. June 2017 was that month for Wavve.

Startup Life

Startup Money Ball

Determined not to make the same mistakes as with our first business, we adopted a "money ball" approach to product development and focused on building a profitable business rather than optimizing around a venture raise.

Law

LLC Filing for Every State

The following is a quick reference for each state with basic filing and recurring fee information. Fee amounts change from time to time, so be sure to double check the website for the most up-to-date amount. If a website link is no longer working, you can typically just search Google

Reflection

The Hardest $1600 I Ever Earned

This was probably the worst I've ever felt about myself. After years of grinding, learning, and working as hard as I could, I was back where I started and unable to pay rent.

Bitcoin

Losing 6 Figures in Crypto

Over the summer I watched my net worth double. By October it had tripled. In November it quadrupled And by December 10x'd. I went from being mostly paycheck to paycheck and stuck under a mountain of student debt to having over 6 figures in my stash of Bitcoin, Ethereum, and

Bitcoin

Bitcoin Satellite Node Using Iridium RockBLOCK Mk2

If cellular, WiFi, and the entire power grid go down, I can still send Bitcoin using the Iridium Satellite Network. Totally portable and no dish necessary. 🛰 🛰 🛰

Learning

Satellites and Sovereignty

Since founding Casa, we’ve been on a mission to protect personal sovereignty. We try to think through all potential threat vectors to design systems that are as resilient as possible. A few months ago, I was thinking about the situation where a catastrophic event takes down power and

Startup Life

Startup: End of Year 2

Here’s my long-overdue quarterly update to close out our second year building Wavve. December 16′ Continued fruitlessly to find product-market fit for the mobile app. Reached the conclusion that radio is a dying industry and not the way forward for our business model. Invested more time and

Reflection

My Twenties

A short reflection on each year of my twenties.