Opening up the Conversational Playing Field

I have made the executive decision of renaming this blog to make it MY blog. Seems fitting to do so since my name is the domain name!!
I started this blog with the intent of better establishing my credibility as an entrepreneur – my branding. However, in the process of doing so, I lost my voice [...]

Lunch with Jeffrey Lyons the CEO of Ideabreaker

I escaped my duties today to have lunch with Jeffrey Lyons the CEO of Ideabreaker. I met Jeff through VenCorps and we decided that it would be good to connect since I was coming to New Orleans, where he happens to live. I wanted to hear more about his startup and he wanted talk about [...]

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 [...]

On Episode 5 of Start-up Junkies: Are you Watching it??

The other day Keith sent me an DM on Twitter to let me know I needed to watch Start-up Junkies on Hulu. I watched my first episode on Thursday night…it’s Saturday morning and I’m on Episode 5.
It’s an excellent “show” to watch. Very motivational. The show is about a Seattle based startup called EarthClassMail. The [...]

A Must Read: Inc. Magazine Article

I’ve been spending a lot of time at the DMV these last two days…long story that I won’t bore you with but the upside of sitting with time to kill and an old fashion phone I can’t have any fun with while I’m bored – I actually took the time to read the magazines I [...]

The Tech Guy Vs. The Biz Dev Guy

Who Has The Greatest Battle to Fight
In the last few weeks, I’ve been meeting quite a few people in the process of starting startups and perhaps this is because I’m in the DC area…but I’ve been running in a lot more of the biz dev types who are the originators of the ideas. I’m actually [...]

Welcome To Don’t Spray and Pray!

I started blogging late May of last year when I was a few months into getting WhyGoSolo “off the ground”. At the time, the intention behind blogging was to capture the journey I was undertaking with starting a web start-up.
I never would have imagined that the blog would serve as the catalyst to opening up [...]