I was out for a drink with a friend recently who said something that really resonated with me.

Every day I read a book on my subway ride into Manhattan, and I just recently finished reading Treasure Yourself by Miranda Kerr.

Roboinvest officially launched yesterday. It was secretly launched on Friday, January 27 to enable us to see whether it would be stable before opening it up to the wider community.

The best products are those where the founders are the power users.

On 11/11/11 we quietly launched Roboinvest in private beta to a select group of people who had reserved a username on our landing page over the past few months.

When you are running a start-up, you live on what I like to call a start-up budget.  Just like how you run your start-up, you need to live your life the same way.

For the past two months I have been actively working on obtaining funding for Roboinvest from investors in New York.  We have almost closed the round, but it’s not officially closed until the documents have been signed and the money is in the bank.

Raising funds for your start-up is probably the most distracting, time consuming and hardest things you will do as an entrepreneur.

It's funny how things have their way of working out. Even though I really wanted to go, I hadn't planned on attending the conference.