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Custom Paint Match Solutions at MyPerfectColor.com

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As many of you have noticed on my LinkedIn updates, I’ve recently invested in, and joined, my 20+ year friend’s company MyPerfectColor, which offers custom paint matching solutions to industry and consumers.  I should have posted here right away, as I could have saved myself from answering the same questions 100+ times!  So, why paint?  I met one of the founders (Jason Shaw, pictured above) of the company at the Wharton MBA program, and we then worked together at Amazon for several years as well.  From there, he and his brother took over their family’s 3rd generation New Jersey/New York paint, window treatment and awnings business Breslow Home Design and along the way they built out the custom paint matching company, MyPerfectColor.  I’ve invested in the businesses to help them build out both, and will be driving on marketing and web development activities.

We believe that there’s an huge opportunity to build the leading online shopping solution for paint and color — to start, we’ll focus most of MyPerfectColor’s energies on addressing the custom paint color matching needs of industry, and we already count many well-known brands as happy MyPerfectColor customers, including the likes of Tiffany and Co, Yeti (both Coolers and Bicycles), Abercrombie and Fitch, and even the US Navy.  It helps that we’re licensed to match all Pantone paint colors (such as Pantone 16-1546 TPX Living Coral) and RAL paint colors — but our real skillset comes in our ability to deliver custom spray paint for more than 250,000 colors.

At the same time, we count a large number of color sensitive consumers who also count on MyPerfectColor to deliver hard-to-find paint matches.  For instance, matches of the discontinued Martha Stewart Paint and Ralph Lauren Paint are available, as are matches for Restoration Hardware Paint collections and almost any other that you’d desire — all are prepared on demand by our team in New Jersey.

We obviously have a ton to improve with the web experience, marketing, operations and pretty much everything else!  But we’re really excited about our head start on addressing our customer needs.  If you have ideas, input or even need some paint, holler 🙂

What are your favorite podcasts? These are mine in early 2017.

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These are my favorite podcasts for early 2017
Since I stopped working, I’m walking a LOT (and regularly listening to more than 10 podcasts), exploring the nooks and crannies of London, and getting in some old person exercise.  I even set a goal to walk 5 million steps this year, and a minimum of 11,000 steps every day.

While I’m listening to many podcasts (full list below), I’m actually doing so much walking that I could add a few more to my playlist.  So… what are a few podcasts that you RAVE about to your friends?  I’m not talking about ones that you somewhat like… raves only!

Here are my favorites, grouped by general ‘category’:

Comedy Podcasts

Storytelling Podcasts

  • The Memory Palace – I ‘LOVE’ this podcast.  Host Nate DiMeo brings the past alive. I strongly recommend these two episodes from 2016:
  • This American Life – you’ve probably heard this one on the radio — it’s an awesome podcast, and ensures you never miss an episode.  They had so many wonderful shows in 2016, so it was hard to pick a favorite.  This was a recent favorite: Kid Logic 2016
  • Radiolab – a show about curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and human experience.  Recent favorite: Lose Lose
  • Benjamin Walker’s Theory of Everything – it’s just good 🙂

Music Podcasts

  • Desert Island Discs – great interviews with artists, architects, business people and the like; includes 8 songs that they’d want to take to a desert island. Recent favorite: Bruce Springsteen

Crime Podcasts

  • Serial – this is the podcast that brought ‘series podcasts’ to the mainstream.  I personally liked season one much better than season two, but they were both good.  If you haven’t listened to Serial Season One, I recommend that you start at the beginning — you will LOVE it.
  • Criminal – a podcast about crime. Stories of people who’ve done wrong, been wronged, or gotten caught somewhere in the middle. Recent favorite: Everyday Genius

Thanks for everyone’s suggestions, posted on Facebook, Twitter and in the comments below.  This is a summary Google Doc to make them easy to find — let me know if you want editing privileges!

Please update NoSnivelling.com links (I moved my blog…)

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Hey folks — it’s been a while since my last post on NoSnivelling.  And I’ll likely relapse again.  But one of my long-standing todos was to update my blog.  So, I finally moved off Blogger and spent some time setting up WordPress.  And for the AWS folks out there, don’t give me a hard time about leveraging Bluehost — I’m a person in need of a LOT of tech support, and Bluehost has been awesome (I got the recommendation from wpBeginner.com, which has also been fantastic).

One favor, if you have a minute.  If you have a blog that links to me, I’d appreciate if you could update any old URLs.  Because I messed up and didn’t redirect the URLs very well.  The old structure started with blog. and the new is back to www. — and, I broke the full URLs as well.  Nice, right?

Anyway, these are some of the top posts, based on Google Analytics.  Or, just update the main URL to www.nosnivelling.com

Recruiting and Interviewing Tips for Early-stage Startups (new short URL is http://bit.ly/ask-interview-tips)

How to Ask for Introductions (new short URL is http://bitly.com/ask-intro)

How to Find Investors for your Startup (new short URL is http://bit.ly/ask-investor)

Offsites for Startups (new short URL is http://bit.ly/ask-offsites)

Thanks for the assist!

Need your help raising money to fight Leukemia Lymphoma

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I’m incredibly proud to be training to participate in the Honolulu Marathon on December 13, 2009 as a member of The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s (LLS) Team In Training. All of us on Team In Training are raising funds to help stop leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin lymphoma and myeloma from taking more lives. I am completing this event in honor of all individuals who are battling blood cancers, including AJ Utter (the son of my friends Brian and Sarah Utter) and and our team honoree, 3-year old Abby Rogers. These people are the real heroes on our team, and we need your support to cross the ultimate finish line – a cure!

Please make a donation to support my participation in Team In Training and help advance LLS’s mission.