eduFire is looking for Summer Interns
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 [...]
Continue reading...The 5 Things I’d Tell My 21 Year Old Entrepreneurial Self
Friday, April 24, 2009
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 [...]
Continue reading...Who will be The Pirate Bay of the finance industry?
Saturday, April 18, 2009
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 [...]
Continue reading...10 Things Every Entrepreneur Must Be Reading
Thursday, April 2, 2009
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 [...]
Continue reading...Best Entrepreneur Stories – 10 of My Favorite Podcasts
Friday, March 27, 2009
I’m a huge fan of learning via audio. It’s one of the things that led me to start LearnOutLoud.com a few years ago. Over the years I’ve listened to hundreds of podcasts that have been helpful on my entrepreneurial journey. Of particular use are interviews with entrepreneurs that tell their stories. [...]
Continue reading...Customer Development: The Definitive Resource
Friday, March 20, 2009
A few months ago I was tipped off to world of Steve Blank and customer development. Simply put, if you’re an entrepreneur understanding these concepts will likely mean the difference between success and failure. Steve personally has taken five companies through this process to IPO. Not a bad track record. While there’s a ton [...]
Continue reading...My advice to young entrepreneurs
Thursday, March 12, 2009
I mentor a few younger entrepreneurs. A little while ago two of them (co-founders in the same company) emailed me sharing with me the ups and downs of the last six months. Here was my response. Since it doesn’t reveal any sensitive info I wanted to share it with the world on [...]
Continue reading...Girl Talk and The Grand Unified Theory On The Economics Of Free
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
One of my favorite albums of the last year or two is Girl Talk’s Feed the Animals (sample their stuff for free on Lala or MySpace). I’ve probably listened to it 50 times in the last six months. As I posted in a reply to Chris Sacca on Twitter today, it’s pure audio [...]
Continue reading...The Edge
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
I was just about to hit the hay tonight and I came across this video featuring an interview that Loic LeMeur did with Rob Kalin, the founder of Etsy) at the World Economic Forum a couple of months ago. In it there was a line that particularly stood out to me. In talking [...]
Continue reading...Let’s Go
Monday, March 2, 2009
It’s the 2nd of March, 2009. The Dow is under 7,000 for the first time since 1997. Fear seems like it’s gripping just about everyone these days. From old people too scared to leave shitty jobs to young people with nothing to lose not wanting to start the company that could become the next Google [...]
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Tuesday, April 28, 2009
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