When I started Flux Chargers in the Summer of 2015 at StartupUCLA, I was selling our product in the streets of Santa Monica during the weekends making just a few bucks per day. Online sales were hard to come by. Fast forward 18 months later, our eCommerce brand grew to reach customers in over 90…
Updated for AI Search (May 2026) TL;DR: SEO in 2026 still rewards the fundamentals — a clean site, strong internal links, content that answers the query — but classic Google rankings are now one of two surfaces. The other is AI search: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, and Claude. The strategies below still wor
Written circa 2016. A lot of people have been asking me what Flux Ventures is, what the plans for the future are and what I envision Flux Ventures to become. I decided to write this blog post to answer these questions and hope that this serves as a memoir when Flux Ventures starts trading on…
How can I increase my Alexa rank? Are there any tricks or tips that will boost my Alexa score? Does the Alexa Rank even matter? For a lot of website owners and new bloggers, it’s hard to get traffic and have a lower Alexa Rank. Nothing is more frustrating that putting amazing content out there…
Being productive is a skill, and like any skill it can be learned and mastered. We live in a world where our responsibilities increase, distractions arise 24/7 and our time just seems to keep on decreasing. Becoming a productive person is all about understanding the factors (whether external or internal) that affect ho
Knowing how to sell is so important. It can transform your business. Yet most of us fear sales. I have to be frank though. When I first started selling, I was not good at it. I used to get nervous, sweat and stumble. The thought of having to approach someone in person or picking up…