Entrepreneurship

Thinking of Quitting? Don’t Let Survivor Bias Ruin Your Life

May 1, 2012

You may have missed Alyson Shontell‘s piece asking an answering the question When You Should Quit Being An Entrepreneur? I marked it when it first appeared earlier this year, then left it in the back burner. If you’re an entrepreneur, especially if you’re engaged in a startup and not yet rolling strong and on your own, [...]

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7 Bad Habits That Aren’t, plus a Great Title That Is

April 24, 2012

Here’s a great title: The 7 Bad Habits of Insanely Productive People. That was on copyblogger last week, posted by Sonia Simone, one of the nicest plays on contradiction and irony I’ve seen a while. There’s some real truth here, but hidden in paradox, and a lot of humor too. Who wants bad habits? You have to [...]

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The Problem With the Myth of Persistence

April 20, 2012

How often do you see successful entrepreneurs, experts, teachers, and various other experts telling would-be or wanna-be startups that starting a business is all about persistence? Too often. It’s a dangerous myth. Why: persistence is only relevant if the rest of it is right. There’s no virtue to persistence when it means running your head [...]

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True Story: Programming, Paradox, and the Pot of Gold

April 18, 2012

Paradox is the spice of life. Maybe. Because life is full of contradictions and other hands. Take this very interesting juxtaposition. Kevin Systrom, founder and CEO of Instagram, just sold it for $! billion to Facebook. And he built the Instagram prototype himself, in his spare time, after teaching himself to code, also in his [...]

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What Business For You? Look in the Mirror. Two Good Posts.

March 27, 2012

I’ve always said that what business is right for you depends not on the market, or what’s hot, but on who you are. So look in the mirror. Today I stumbled on two excellent blog posts that put this in good perspective. First, What Kind of Startup is Right for You, a post by Nellie Akalp [...]

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True Story: Begin With a Job at a Startup, Then Start Your Own

March 8, 2012

The title of this post is taken from Martin Zwilling’s Begin With a Job at a Startup, Then Start Your Own on the Gust blog. In that post, Martin starts with this: For those of you who want to get in on the ground floor of a new venture, but haven’t yet worked up the nerve [...]

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Is The Very Idea of Designing Tech Products for Women Insulting?

March 5, 2012

(note: I posted this on the Huffington Post first, just about 10 minutes ago) Maybe it’s because I’m father to four daughters, maybe because of simple fair play, but if you read my stuff I’ve been a chronic complainer about the relatively low numbers of women in high tech and tech in general. And I [...]

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Are You a Trep?

January 30, 2012

Shall we start calling entrepreneurs treps instead. In this post last October I joined Robert Jones and Rieva Lesonsky and a few others in a quest for a better word for “entrepreneur.” Robert started it with 5 reasons we need a new word for entrepreneurs and Rieva followed with what does it really mean to [...]

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Q&A: How Do I Find Investment For My Dream Business?

November 11, 2011

Question (edited for grammar and spelling): I want to open a new business related to export and import, but I’m confused … how can I get investment money without having any experience of import and export? Answer: Yes, you are confused, but no need: Forget it. Of course you can’t get investment money without having [...]

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NYTimes Offers a Welcome Note of Small Business Reality

November 10, 2011

I was happy to discover major media dose of reality in Maybe It’s Time For Plan C in yesterday’s NYTimes.com. While it’s so much more popular to talk about entrepreneurship as a matter of passion and persistence and living the dream, I think it’s also important to recognize that failure is common, and failure can [...]

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