January 2011
16 posts
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Patience in All Things
The problem with living in the moment is sometimes that moment becomes the end all, be all of your life. If you’re not seeing the results you want, you go into panic mode.
In business you expect what your working on to be the best thing out there. Everyone’s going to want it, right? Well, that could happen, yes. But, it’s not going to happen right away. The over night...
“It couldn’t be any clearer that the Internet is what citizens need to keep their...”
– Albert Wenger - Brilliant!
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Allow Me To Reintroduce Myself...
I’ll be taking a new direction with my blog from now on. My posts have mostly been random in nature with no consistent purpose in mind other than my thoughts, and occasionally a song, picture, or video.
From now on, I’d like my blog to focus on my life as an entrepreneur and the lessons I learn along the way. Not just from a business standpoint, but how those lessons might be...
“Steve [Jobs] has a really uncanny ability to dream up devices that after we see...”
– John Doerr on Steve Jobs, and how the iPad has changed everything.
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Simplify
You’ve got it! The next big idea!
This one’s gonna sky rocket you, and your company to the top of the world. In a few months you’re gonna be on a private plane, to some remote island you own, while sipping champagne and listening to this.
GREAT!
Let me be the first to tell you, it’s probably definitely not going to happen like that. You’re initial idea is not...
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Small Improvements
For the past couple of days, I’ve just felt out of it. For whatever reason; lack of sleep, new environment, whatever, my brain just hasn’t been functioning on the level it usually does.
So, in the interest of shutting down the engines and getting back to neutral - I went home early from work last night (10:30pm), turned off the alarms on my phone, and absolutely passed out. I knew...
The Element of Surprise
If you’re not surprising your customers, you’re not doing your job. At least not in a way that will make your product, or service memorable.
You don’t need to surprise every customer, all the time. But, you should be hearing surprise in their voice every once in a while.
“I didn’t expect to hear from you today”, or “Thanks for getting back to me so...
“Sure, go ahead and test what’s testable. But the real victories come when...”
– Seth Godin
Sometimes the best things you do in life start with the words, “F$%k it…”
“Richard once followed me into a ladies room to make point. In Pakistan!”
– Hillary Clinton about Richard Holbrooke
this is the kind of tenacity and focus that the great entrepreneurs exhibit
Obama, Bill and Hillary Clinton Pay Tribute to Richard Holbrooke at Memorial
(via fred-wilson)
Making Deposits
I learned today that any relationship is analogous to depositing money in a bank. The more deposits you make, the more money you’ll have saved, the stronger your financial situation is.
Relationships are extremely similar. Every time you meet someone, help someone, or generally interact in anyway, you’re making a deposit. The more deposits you make, the stronger your relationship...
“We’ve made the world better… but we still want a better world.”
– Pretty incredible! Watch the video and scroll down all the way down to the bottom to check out everything Nike is doing.
Say what you will about Nike, but their Nike Better World campaign is pretty well done, and hopefully, comes from the heart.
Even tiny changes at big companies can have...