Archive | April, 2009

eduFire is looking for Summer Interns

28. April 2009

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We’ll be posting this to the eduFire blog shortly but I wanted to give readers of my blog the first crack at landing an internship at eduFire this summer (I promise you will have more fun than the girl in this random photo I found!!). I figured anyone who is into stuff like customer [...]

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The 5 Things I’d Tell My 21 Year Old Entrepreneurial Self

24. April 2009

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12 years ago I set out on my first foray into the world of entrepreneurship. The company was called MCSETutor.com (we later changed the name to the equally obtuse 2000Tutor.com) and while it wasn’t a huge success by dot com era standards we did sell it for a tidy profit. But looking back [...]

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Who will be The Pirate Bay of the finance industry?

18. April 2009

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Umair has a great post up here: The Pirate Bay guys were criminally prosecuted for….violating (largely obsolete) copyright. Almost no one in finance has been held even civilly liable for vastly more economically damaging actions. I followed up with a comment along the lines of the fact that the content owner industry (i.e. the MPAA and [...]

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10 Things Every Entrepreneur Must Be Reading

2. April 2009

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Sharpening the saw is one of the most important things every entrepreneur needs to be doing on a consistent basis. The world is simply changing too fast right now to sensibly follow any other strategy. And the amazing thing is that these days there are a ton resources including startup blogs, interviews with [...]

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