A phrase you often hear in regards to life, especially when you’re in college. The importance of “having a balanced life” is emphasized time and again by adults, mentors, and most of all parents.
All through my academic career I was working toward “balance.” The balance between teaching myself everything I wanted to know, learning about [...]
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Balance
April 28, 2008 – 2:20 am
He thanked me
February 14, 2008 – 12:12 am
I’ve been examining my post-graduation job opportunities. While I have had offers and spoken with companies (and am still very much in the process) a possible window of opportunity was opened for me recently. That possible opportunity for me was to start my own company. As such, I have been talking to a few select [...]
Eat your own dogfood
February 12, 2008 – 7:22 pm
I just saw one of Guy Kawasaki’s earlier presentations (mid 90’s, great speaker) where he goes over 10 tips for entrepreneurs. One of these tips is to “Eat your own dogfood.” The thought behind it is quite simple:
Know what it is your users (or consumers) go through by doing it yourself.
The example he used was [...]
Entrepreneurs - Transform or die
December 3, 2007 – 2:44 pm
Fred Wilson over at Union Square Ventures has a really interesting post on why early stage venture investments fail.
The need to transform and the method that Dick described are two things I have been experiencing first hand with the company I currently work for. The first site we rolled out (I came in end [...]