How far are you willing to go?
Image via Wikipedia I’ve had the pleasure of having front row seats to watch my friend Jason develop his business Jackthreads (check it out, it’s a private shopping community) over the last 4 or so years. Things are going very well for Jason now as his membership and revenue numbers continue to explode month over […]
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 […]
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 […]
Brazen Careerist: “Bad career advice: Do what you love”
I don’t know how I stumbled on to this post, but it was really thought provoking for me. At first I wanted to get defensive, think about why she was wrong and point out that she had contradicted this post many times in the past both in one of her books and in other blog […]
“How to Do what you Love”
Continuing with my blog theme for the last weeks (or years) I wanted to post some quotes after reading Paul Graham’s long (but very good) essay on the subject of doing what you love. I found this quote particularly interesting based on what I wrote about last week in terms of not knowing what doing […]
Venture Voice show 48 – Frank Addante on Time
Great quote from the most recent Venture Voice by serial entrepreneur Frank Addante: The biggest asset that I have is my time. I have to think about how to best invest my time. As a VC you can always raise more money. you can always get more money, hire more people…But you can never get […]
Project to lifestyle
(“Learning to Swim,” on flickr by sposta via CC – You can’t learn to swim until you jump in) I feel like everyone I speak to these days has at least a “project or two,” they are working on. By project I mean they have something they are at least thinking about that hopefully could […]
Who’s your harshest critic?
CC via Jan Tik on Flickr I’ve been paying a lot closer attention recently to how I feel at certain moments, and what triggers those feelings. This past weekend, Julie’s awesome sister and brother-in-law came to visit Julie and I here in New York. They are both really great people and I enjoy spending time […]
What’s your motivation?
As I was getting ready to leave my apartment this morning, I suddenly thought to myself: What’s motivating me to do what I’m about to do today? There’s a lot of potential answers to that question, some that are “noble,” such as “I’m determined to take one step closer to making the world a better […]
Long time…
(shot at sunset in Guanacaste, Costa Rica…beautiful place) It’s been awhile since I last posted to this blog. It’s not because I’ve been particularly busy, it’s just that I fell out of that “blogging state of mind,” where you can constantly see blog worthy topics in your day to day life. Anyway, those of you […]