Henry David Thoreau said: “It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, or so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere through which we look – to affect the quality of the day, that is [...]
We invest in Dots, not Lines is a common phrase thrown around in the start up community and Mark Suster has a great post about it here. On the opposite side of the coin, if you hear VCs talking this talk, the create the walk and create lines, not dots. In other words the success [...]
#1 Knowledge of the Product Knowing your product is very important and the more you know the better you can sell. You did great in sales because you were passionate about the product and you knew the latest in fashion and you knew what looked good. Didn’t matter who that person is because you know [...]
I am constantly reminded of Guy Kawasaki’s 10/20/30 rule for all presentations. It is crazy thinking I read this article the day it was posted and have followed the rule ever since that date. Over the past 6 years the rule has taken a life of it’s own so I call it the 30/20/10 note… [...]
My last post “Food For Fodder” resulted in a number of personal messages. Brad Feld wrote a post today titled “A Message To Graduating MBA’s” where he gives advice that not only MBA graduates or even college graduates, but people of all ages every day should live: Imagine that you are 45 and are looking [...]
Sarah Lacy of Techcrunch posted “Peter Thiel: We’re in a Bubble and It’s Not the Internet. It’s Higher Education.” Peter Thiel is best known as the Co-Founder of Paypal. Thiel says: “A true bubble is when something is overvalued and intensely believed,” he says. “Education may be the only thing people still believe in in the [...]
Austin Carr wrote a great article for Fast Company about the CURRENT (I assume the trend will continue to fade) lack of success merchants have seen with daily deal sites and check in services. I agree 100% and in order to stick around for the long term, I feel in the near future, companies like Groupon and [...]
Trust me I know all too well, before you spend the money to create test the waters. T.A. McCann once said your first revision of your product should be a mock up of the future product to look at feel the way you envision the product to work (easy enough with PowerPoint). This visual will give the [...]
For Apple the dance would be that of an order taker. They could have been as rude as they want, because the buyer did not really care, and they just want the product. For Microsoft, the 500 million to buy Danger or even the millions they poured in to marketing was not even enough for [...]
I give up… now that I moved my site to hostgator, I lost the content from the original blog. The good news is I have notes from everything, so all non time sensitive material will be (in time) posted again. Stayed tuned