Steve Monas

Steve Ysreal Monas has been writing about business and the internet for twenty years. Born in Odessa, Ukraine and raised in San Diego, he published his first five books between 2006 and 2008 — guides to the early social web and online dating, and Shoestring Venture: The Startup Bible, a 560-page manual for building a company without capital behind you, co-written with Richard Hooker.

Then he stopped writing and started operating. He launched and grew a transportation company in Hawaii to profitability, served as COO of a cosmetic company where he restored it to profit, and ran marketing across the healthcare, technology, education and power sectors.

He returned to publishing in 2024. The 5-Minute Miracle is a science-backed guide to personal transformation through micro-habits. The Lean Startup Blueprint covers building resilient ventures in the AI era. Forgotten Geniuses of Mesopotamia explores the ancient innovations that shaped civilization, and Flavors of the Motherland traces African cuisine and its global impact. His fiction, The Resilience Chronicles — Threads of Resilience and Echoes of Defiance — is set against the backdrop of a pandemic.

Today he runs Chronic Internet LLC from Kauai, a one-person company operating a network of independent web properties. He has been a single full-time parent to three children since 2019.

Find him on X @SteveYMonas