Entrepreneurial Success Resides in your People

What a difference a year makes! Yesterday I was reading my journal and recollecting what was happening in my life a year ago. The biggest thing that was happening was my quest to raise money.
Oddly enough – that’s rapidly becoming my biggest quest again. I was working on the new investor deck yesterday and [...]

Processing Of Information: The Entrepreneurial Filter

I unfortunately don’t have a great deal of time to read a lot of…anything. But, I still scan headlines, read a few blogs, and magazines. I also listen to NPR on WAMU on my commute back and forth to work.
Everything I read and everything I listen to is processed through my entrepreneurial filter. The [...]

Fear of the Known!??!

I started my first business about three years ago upon getting out of the Marine Corps after ten years of service. At the time, people said to me “You’re very brave and courageous to start your own business” – I thought it was an odd thing to say. I was excited about the potential and [...]

The French Man says “PR Secrets?? It’s Bullshit”

I gotta say I completely agree with Loic! I have disagreed with Loic in the past on his post: The idea does not count only execution matters: 10 rules to launch a startup today because I think Loic was overlooking all the work he had done (over many years) in order to be able to [...]

A Ding Or Two on Our Tech Guy

I think the biggest pitfalls I’ve heard people say of the Tech Guy is that he rarely possesses a vision or the ability to take an idea to market.
I’m not entirely sold that the vision part is unique to the Tech Guys. I’ve met plenty of business people and entrepreneurs who can’t see past their [...]

The Doers, The Talkers and Our Bloggers

Yesterday Technosailor wrote a blog post that initiated a great conversation on the District of Corruption show that both Aaron and Geoff Livingston do every Tuesday at 4pm EST.
I won’t lie – I hadn’t read the blog post so I rapidly jumped in because I thought Aaron was saying that CEOs have an obligation to [...]