Life-Long Learner

This post originally appeared on VentureBent. I heard an amazing story at my Church weekend. I drew many parallels from it to my own life including some of the things I’ve learned in my journey as an entrepreneur. The story goes like this: Alexander the Great’s powerful army spent years overwhelming opposing armies in their [...]

This post originally appeared on VentureBent  Over 4th of July weekend I had a great talk with a friend’s Dad whose had a pretty stellar career in private equity. He probably still has American Online and couldn’t tell you what a hashtag is, but the guy is a total sage when it comes to business [...]

This post originally appeared on VentureBent – a blog syndicate I’m part of. Its so important to finish in everything you do – especially as an entrepreneur. When you’re doing startups there is never enough time in the day. You’re forced to pick and choose your battles and devote less time to certain things you [...]

Being an entrepreneur can be a very isolating existence, especially in the early days. This definitely contributes to the emotional roller-coaster of building a startup. I hear about a lot of people who are “heads down” coding for weeks and even months at a time to get their product out there. This may be good for [...]

You usually hear about people wanting to start companies because they have a problem they want solve or think they have some unique insight that might result in bags of cash. I think there is another reason that is spoken of less frequently. When people would tell me how hard it was to build a [...]

I’m a firm believer in creating opportunities through hustling. One thing I’m starting to realize more and more is that you can create incredible opportunities by hustling online. Nothing supplants a face to face interaction regardless of the context, but a lot of times getting to that point can be difficult. Hustling online can help [...]

I had a really interesting conversation about why we want to be entrepreneurs a few weeks back that made me take a good hard look in the mirror. I think a lot of people say they want to be entrepreneurs without ever really taking a good hard look their core motivations, myself included. A few [...]

As a user, I’m inpatient, unforgiving, and have trouble using/finding features that appear so simple to product managers. If I can’t find what I want quickly and easily you’ve lost me. This poses a variety of challenges for product managers depending upon what stage you’re at: New product: Who are my early adopters and am [...]

“I want to break into the startup scene…but I can’t code” If I had a nickle for every time I’ve heard that…I’d probably have like $3.20. But seriously, I don’t know if its because the tech scene is hot right now or that the composition of my personal network is changing, but it seems like [...]