The last few months have been blast. An intense blast of stress, blood & sweat equity, with moments of sheer happiness. Either that or madness from fatigue. Either way, its been a blast as part of Founder Institute.

As some of you may or may not know, The Linesnap Crew have been immersed for the last few months in a program known as Founders Institute. The goal of this program is to take said developer & designer and make sure-fired founders out of them. It polishes the rough edges until only a diamond of a company remains. And it does this with work – a lot of it. Weekends were lost. Family and friends were alienated. All for the dream. Was it worth it? Damn skippy (sorry family & friends).
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Dear Dominique Ansel,

Let’s start by saying that we are long time fans. Not so much of your tasty and flaky cronut pastry. Definitely not of your Cookies & Cream shot glass (which looked extra awesome). Nope, we were a fan of your line (we are after all called Linesnap, duh).
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One of our founders, Gabe Velez, was featured on a podcast a while back talking about design. No wonder – he’s the lead designer at Linesnap. Anyway, here he is on a Podcast called Novice No Longer, hosted by Dann Berg. They go also into a bit of their actual history of how they had met and on how Linesnap came to be.
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So 2013 is about to end. And as the New Year dawns upon us, I wanted to give everyone a rundown of what we’ve been up to thus far. So consider this somewhat of an origin story in long form. I may also give away a bit of what’s to come as well. Here goes:
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