entrepreneurship
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Sheer force or a lucky break
This article refers to Jobs’ Stanford commencement speech where he advised to follow your passion. But he [himself] didn’t follow this simple advice. Apple Computer was decidedly not born out of passion, but instead was the result of a lucky break—a “small-time” scheme that unexpectedly took off.” Similar to Malcolm Gladwell’s writings, this article points…
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Paul Graham is an extremist, in a really good way
Paul Graham is an extremist, in a really good way “In an artificial world, only extremists live naturally.” Yet another find on PG’s long list of fantastic essays. I admire this guy so much. His written work is clear, logical, pulls interesting facts from diverse fields and delivers a punching conclusion. Best of all there’s…
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Goodwill and no-nonsense values
StartupBus began with a premise that if you put sharp people on the bus, including all associated constraints, interesting things come out of it. Last year it was one bus with dreamers that come from distant parts of USA but also UK and Australia. The dreamers kept dreaming and today, a year later, 6 buses…
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Where do good ideas come from?
As I watched this video, parallel between it and the environment that we create on the StartupBus was stark. In this beautifully illustrated video, Steve Johnson asks a question you see in the title and specifically drills down on the impact that our surroundings have on our ideas. Breakthrough ideas are a result of rinse-and-lather…
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StartupBus community is about to get much larger
Last February my friend Julie brought to my attention this article on TechCrunch about this 48-hour hackathon on a bus, known as StartupBus. Of course I signed up, as the idea passed my personal threshold of “crazy enough to fly across the country”. Within just a couple of weeks from signing up for the StartupBus 2010 I…
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Smart move by Tony Conrad (Founder of About.me)
AOL’s acquisition of About.me was the fastest exit I have ever read about – less than 1 week after the public launch. It’s a huge win for Tony Conrad and the team at About.me as they will be raking in millions in double digits. But in today’s startup environment there is a big emphasis on…
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Whether it’s tied to an entrepreneurial vision or simply made part of your every day life, giving pays back in ways you might not anticipate. Whether you’re helping a teacher and classroom in need, donating clothes or canned foods to a local shelter, volunteering for disaster relief, or giving up your birthday to help others…
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Are you hypomanic? According to the article, Seth of Scvngr is.
Are you hypomanic? According to the article, Seth of Scvngr is. As much as it’s hard to imagine how hard life would be with 0 social life, people like Seth Priebatsch, Mark Zuckerberg and Steve Jobs are the types that really do create big waves of innovation. Nothing short of extraordinary people that create extraordinary results. …
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The final thing I’d say about optimism is this. If we took the loopiest, most moonbeam-addled Californian utopian internet bullshit, and held it up against the most cynical, realpolitik-inflected scepticism, the Californian bullshit would still be a better predictor of the future. Which is to say that, if in 1994 you’d wanted to understand what…
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When at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it. Albert Einstein
