What are you avoiding?
As part of my “chains” work, and on the advice of Jerry, I’ve added a new, 2 minute exercise to my daily routine. I ask myself: “What are you avoiding” I take some time to write a response in evernote, and then I ask: “Why are you avoiding it?” I’m only a few days in […]
Anxiety
Image via Wikipedia There’s been some anxious moments the last few weeks in the startup I’m working on. It’s the typical fears that you deal with in this stage of a startup (basically, what if we fail?). I’ve been deep down this fearful road before, but this time it feels different. I’ve been able to watch […]
Note to future self (and others): I will make lots of mistakes
Image via Wikipedia I had one of my favorite mixergy interviews with Zaadz founder, Brian Johnson on in the background today while doing some work. Brian is my kind of entrepreneur, a guy who has seemed to have found the amazing intersection of personal meaning and business. There’s a ton of great stuff in this […]
no regrets about going with my gut.
So I was watching the Techcrunch 50 tonight live on ustream while waiting for Julie to get off the phone before watching Mad Men, and just as I was about to switch it off, I saw a name I recognized. The upcoming presenter was a company called Yext, a company I knew. My jaw hit […]
NY Times article on unemployment leading to entrepreneurship
I enjoyed this article in yesterday’s times about people who have become entrepreneurs after losing their jobs in the most recent recession. I guess this is really unsurprising, and there have been numerous articles about this of late, but it’s always nice to see. It seems with each new downturn, there is a significant upturn […]
what to do next?
Image via Wikipedia I feel like this is a question I’m constantly asking, and perhaps that is part of the issue, but I feel like I’m really at decision point on what to do next. As I touched on in this post, I had a big project I was working on come to an end […]
Lessons Learned an Entrepreneurial Endeavor that didn’t work out
Image via Wikipedia Well it’s official, or at least it feels that way. I don’t think we’re going to ever sell the GJG directly to users profitably. It doesn’t mean that GJG is a flawed concept, it just means that Chris and I are unable to sell it effectively with our approach. And we’re just […]
Inputs of Entrepreneurship
Image via Wikipedia I’ve been thinking and wondering a lot lately about what needs to come together to create a working company. I’m not going to touch the issue of “successful,” company because that’s really impossible to quantify (at least for me), so instead I’m just going to look at what I think is needed […]
I”m back / 4 hour workweek / startup
Image by Getty Images via Daylife It’s not that I stopped writing blog posts, it’s just that I stopped posting them here. I find that I’m constantly writing out thoughts, but I struggle consistently posting them here. Instead I usually will email them to a few different people to get feedback. I realized today that […]