What Does It Take To Be A Successful Entrepreneur? – with Jerry Colonna
http://blip.tv/play/g_RIga7ZfQA%2Em4v via mixergy.com Jerry is just an awesome dude who I have the pleasure of learning from and working with on a regular basis. I’ve learned so much from him both in life and in business, and as a big fan of Mixergy I recommended both Jerry and Andrew do this interview. It really turned […]
Culture and Core Values (via OrganizedWisdom)
I really liked this post from Unity over at the OrganizedWisdom Blog on their company values and culture. I’ve been fortunate to spend some time with the guys at OrganizedWisdom and I know that they truly mean every word posted. I’ve learned more and more that the key to a successful startup is a solid […]
“Make meaning not movement”
I was having a discussion about entrepreneurship yesterday with a friend and I mentioned that I can see one of entrepreneurs at one of the startups I’m consulting for really starting to get anxious about money. I mentioned that I could see their anxiety manifesting itself in pushing for more…more time, more phone calls, more […]
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 […]
Tinker don’t perfect
I’ve spoken to several entrepreneurs this week as well as spent some time thinking about my past endeavors, and one thought keeps popping in my head: “tinker, don’t perfect.” When I look back on some things that I’ve worked on, some of them things I REALLY was passionate about (have some thoughts about passion, […]
Albert Einstein quote -via Kareem Mayan’s Weblog
A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal […]
lessons in failure
I enjoyed Fred Wilson’s post this morning on failure (inspired by Obama’s speech to students a few days ago). He wrote this, quoting from Obama: you can’t let your failures define you – you have to let them teach you. You have to let them show you what to do differently next time He goes […]
Hey Multitasker, you’re lousy at everything..
This NY Times article somehow snuck by me last week, but I went back and dug it up after someone recommended it to me (why?). Basically it discusses unsurprising findings of a Stanford University study on multitaskers: people who try to do 4 things at once are usually mediocre or bad at all of them. […]
The voice that eats my dreams
Image via Wikipedia Ok so the title is a little dramatic, but it was the first thing that came to mind. I just got out of a good meeting with a friend where I realized that in probably 10 years of playing with business ideas, the most exciting ideas to me all have a common […]