Tag: business

Jeff Bezos on Passion

Image by Getty Images via Daylife Enjoyed this comment from founder of Amazon.com, Jeff Bezos on the role of passion in starting a business… One of the huge mistakes people make is that they try to force an interest on themselves. If you’re really interested in software and computer science, you should focus on that. […]

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 […]

Hot, Flat, Crowded -thoughts

I recently finished Thomas Friedman‘s latest book: Hot, Flat, Crowded and I loved it.  He does a great job describing the major problems facing our increasingly hot, flat, and crowded world, which include booming population growth, more energy demand, a changing climate, and rapidly accelerating biodiversity loss.  (Rapidly accelerating biodiversity loss is a topic covered […]

Opportunities in the moment

Image via Wikipedia I’ve been meaning to write something on Fred Wilson‘s post last week on job losses here in the US, noting that the announcement last week of 75,000 jobs being wiped out in one day exceeded the amount of jobs he had helped create in 22 years of venture investing. Wow.   He […]

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 […]

To-do or Didn’t do list?

Image via Wikipedia In my first week in awhile of being more systematic about my todo list, I’ve decided to grade my effectiveness this week and it wasn’t pretty.  Of the 50+ items I had on there (some as simple as write and mail thank you note or email so and so), I probably completed […]

Warren Buffett on Charlie Rose

Warren Buffett spent an hour with Charlie Rose yesterday.  I highly recommend anyone interested in getting a better understanding of the current situation to watch this (along with some discussion on taxes, past bubbles).  Buffett really has a way of explaining things in an interesting, witty, and playful way, but even more importantly a way […]