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 [...]

Will it be Anti-Climatic??

Last night, I put up the todo list on my whiteboard for the soft launch of Tickets with a Twist on Sunday. Today, I’ve been wondering about what the launch will feel like. Launching WhyGoSolo was such a monumental event to me (us) and this one…like I mentioned in another post, feels so much different.
This [...]

The Difficulties of Getting Stuff Done

Since having the most expensive breakfast of my life at the W in New Orleans this morning I’ve been running around trying to accomplish various things for my two current jobs (the Marine Corps and my startup.)
Burning the candle from both ends is really wearing me out. It would be one thing to work [...]

Pressed Against a Deadline – Tangled in Loose Ends

Who wants to be in my shoes? For the last few weeks I’ve been working my eight hour a day job that has taken me on the road to San Antonio, New York, Philadelphia and next week to New Orleans, while managing to move from my home of four plus years to a room I’m [...]

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 [...]

Two Initial Strikes Against The Biz Dev Guy

My last blog post on this topic received some fabulous comments well worth reading and I do believe that the consensus was that both types are ultimately required in order to create the needed combination towards the potential for success.
However, I want to further discuss what strengths and weaknesses both types (Biz Dev and Tech) [...]

SocialDevCamp: The Future of the Social Web

Yesterday I was at SocialDevCamp East in Baltimore – I was one of the organizers along with Keith Casey and Dave Troy. We gathered together the thought leaders down the Amtrak corridor (Boston, NYC, Philadelphia. MD, DC and VA) to discuss the future of the social web.
Understanding The Future of The Social Web
One of [...]

Establishing a Foundation: My ‘SOB Moment’

Everything I write about in this blog is gathered from personal experience and having lived through it – I know there’s nothing like a story to help people realize the importance of what I’m recommending you do. So here goes…
A couple of weeks ago I had a ‘SOB moment’. It came the morning after TECH [...]

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 [...]

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