Archive for the ‘Entrepreneurship’ Category
If you have attended any number of networking events, you are more than likely familiar with the conflicted attendee who hands you four business cards. For the sake of reference, let’s call him Bob. After any event, as you sort through a small stack of business cards, you ask yourself why Bob sells real estate, perfume, cell phones and vitamins. Read more
Another one from the antiquities of 2008 – this one about a Fast Company look into the rage about Silicon Valley startup Ning and the “Viral Loop,” what Ning CEO Gina Bianchini and Fast Company writer Adam Pennenberg attribute for the success of internet giants Facebook, eBay and Amazon. Read more
Last week I stumbled upon a shelf of aged (18 month, and quite delicious) issues of Business Week, Fast Company, Inc, and similar ilk of publications. At the same time, I’ve been complaining lately to a select group of people about my lack of good ideas concerning interesting blog content. A wealthy backlog of magazines has potentially (you be the judge) solved that problem.
So, instead of moan in my dry, dry desert of creativity, I’ve decided to glance through my casks of aged information for any nuggets of wisdom from months past that came true, or were total BS.
I suppose the latter represents a different kind of nugget.
May 2008 – Concerning Alex Bogusky and the newly rebellious Microsoft Read more
Aaron (my business partner) and I have developed a comical practice when considering the choice to either
go ahead with a decision or hold back and wait things out.
Both of us have had the fortune of being coached by Tony Scelzo of Rainmakers, who has had a distinctive impact on a lot of business professionals. Let’s say they number in the thousands (because they do). Read more
Last month I had some new ideas thrown at me from Tony Scelzo at Rainmakers. At the Rainmakers Main Event, Tony’s presentation had a strong center point on the subject of “making someone greater than you.”
To give some background, accountability is a common discussion among entrepreneurs. We have so many ideas on seemingly life-changing goals, business concepts and social agendas that it is often hard for us to focus on one. It’s both a blessing and a curse. The strength allows a constant source of creativity, but the character flaw rears its ugly head as a deficit of attention to executing fully on any one endeavor. Read more