I’ve had one of those weeks at work. In the middle of some hard issues on Wednesday evening I walked into my office and was hit by a beautiful sunset. Here’s the picture:
Lesson learned: Life is just life. Deal with it. Stop and enjoy the view and things will work out.
If you are letting your prejudices about Microsoft or Bill Gates or Steve Ballmer get in your way of learning a thing or two about business then I feel sorry for you. Here are six great educational minutes from the All Things D conference. Watch and learn:
I hope they put up part two soon!
This is something I’ve thought a lot about lately. Here’s a quick summary on why entrepreneurs should take vacations:
You work too much
New environments spark creativity
You are getting boring to be around
Its been a long time since you’ve been on a vacation
You need to get out of the house
You need to reconnect
Its helpful to remind yourself [...]
Salt Lake-based MediaFORGE, a company I thought had passed away, launches a cool new interactive ad widget. Check it out:
Its good to see these guys are still around and kicking! Have a nice weekend!
My friend, Lisa Ann Thomson, a local writer and author sent me this question:
Hello! I have a quick question (or maybe a very complicated question) for all the entrepreneurial types I know:
How do you divide equity and ownership amongst founders of a company?
More specifically, I have a friend (seriously, it’s a friend, it’s not me….)Â who [...]
Lately I’ve been meeting with a lot of budding entrepreneurs to talk about ideas they have or businesses they have started. I really enjoy getting together and talking with like-minded people. Just today I met with a fellow Westminster grad who has built a great little outsource programming shop. On the side, he and his developers [...]
Jason Calacanis wrote a blog post that created a firestorm on the Web. On the important stuff he’s right on. Here are my thoughts:
“Buy Macintosh computers, save money on an IT department.” Come on, Jason - Macs break down too. Plus, I’m way more productive on a PC - so are most other people.
“Buy a [...]
I had a great time last night at the UEC mentor event. I was tapped to mentor the Savvy May team, which won the Westminster business plan competition last month.
It was also good to run into a couple of familiar faces. Rand Bateman was at the table next to me. His team has a cool [...]
YoungEntrepreneur.com pulled together a list of the top 10 mistakes people make when starting a business. Some I agree with and some I don’t but overall its a good read. My comments are below in italics:
What are the common mistakes that new entrepreneurs make and how can you avoid making them yourself? Here is our [...]
I was recently tapped to judge the Westminster College business plan competition. Last Friday, a group of judges descended on Westminster to hear the presentations of the top ten semi-finalists. The top three teams will have their plans refined and sent to the UECÂ state business plan competition.
It took six hours to get through all the [...]
