July 2011
35 posts
No, You Don't Want to Start Your Own Business
Today, I’m going to talk about my second pet peeve when talking to “Entrepreneurs”. It’s when I’m talking to people that want to start their own business — but they really don’t.
This sort of relates to my last post, where I talked about my first pet peeve — Entrepreneurs that are chasing a business model vs. figuring out what they actually care...
Search for your Movement, not your Business Model
Lately I’ve been talking to a lot of Startup Entrepreneurs. I absolutely love it. I get to meet some really interesting, passionate,(and broke) people working on exciting ideas.
However, there is one pet peeve I’ve started to develop lately: it is talking to Entrepreneurs that are trying to pivot and customer develop way into a problem/solution/business.
STOP IT.
Life is too fucking...
Optimize for the Cha-Ching
Everytime someone signs up for a paid plan in Tout (http://www.toutapp.com), my iPhone makes a “CHA-CHING” noise — the sound of a cash register.
I had to hack this solution together using a Gmail filter and the Notifire app but I absolutely love it. The more people I share this hack with — the more interesting and compelling I find this idea.
I think every Startup...
How RIM can survive...
I left the confines of Silicon Valley this weekend and spent time in Cleveland for a family wedding. I love weekends like this because not only does it let me see people I deeply love all in one place, it also let’s me interact with a lot of really smart yet normal people and get a pulse on the real world.
Oddly, throughout the whole weekend, the one name that kept coming up over and over...
June 2011
43 posts
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