Talk With Everyone
Reading Mark Suster‘s excellent post, “Why You Need To Take 50 Coffee Meetings” brought to mind one of my personal corollaries: Talk with everyone. I’m a relatively small-time investor. It’s a documented fact, and I don’t try to hide it. But that means that I need to deliver value beyond money if I’m going to [...]
To Make Money, Be A Garbageman
Plumbers and garbagemen make a good living despite their lack of PHP coding skills. That’s because they’re willing to do the necessary but unpleasant.Basic economics teaches us that prices are determined by supply and demand. Scarce skills like being …
Failure Fridays
Someone very close to me is about to begin a very cool new gig. Its a role that most would love and in fact be envious of (I sure am – and will be blogging about it soon!). So this…
Entrepreneurship is about happiness, not wealth
When entrepreneurs come to me, I always point out the following: 1) The chances of a venture-backed startup being a hit and returning meaningful wealth are about 1 in 10. 2) You’re likely to have about 20-25 years in your career where you can found a company. 3) Each time you found a company, you’re [...]
Becoming Self-Employed? You Already Are!
Zen Habits has a post up called "The Get-Started-Now Guide to Becoming Self-Employed". As with most ZH posts, it’s well-written and thoughtful, but that’s not what I’m blogging about. Regardless of what you think or what your W-2 says, you are already self-employed. If you want to be successful, start thinking of yourself as [...]
