This is your life
or how to find your purpose and do what you love via @brainpickings. Continue reading This is your life
Category: entrepreneurship
Building and inventing
Wilson Miner – When We Build from Build on Vimeo. Bret Victor – Inventing on Principle from CUSEC on Vimeo. via @dburka Continue reading Building and inventing
Small Business Forum 2010
Are you ready for Toronto’s entrepreneurial event of the year? Join Chris O’Neill of Google Canada, Austin Hill of Brudder Ventures, Leila Boujnane of Idée Inc., Nancy Peterson of Homestars, Darren Anderson of Vive Nano, Erin Bury of Sprouter, Mike McDerment of Freshbooks and many, many others at the Small Business Forum – Toronto’s entrepreneurial … Continue reading Small Business Forum 2010
#startups
[…] the cheaper your company is to operate, the harder it is to kill. Continue reading #startups
NYT interviews Jeff Bezos
NYT: The Kindle, an electronic reader brought out by Amazon two years ago, has become your company’s best-selling product and a great success story. But several rival e-readers are coming out in time for Christmas. What do you think of the Nook, for instance, from Barnes & Noble? Jeff Bezos: We have a long tradition … Continue reading NYT interviews Jeff Bezos
Go head and piss people off!
I know I do. All the time. Apparently I am very skilled at that. But that’s only because I am doing the right things – and I care! You see: “doing the right things will almost inevitably piss people off”. Just loved Tim Ferris’ Benefits of Pissing People Off blog post. […] if you are … Continue reading Go head and piss people off!
Gameness, vaccines, turtles, life and startups
On Offensive Play by Malcom Gladwell in the New Yorker […] those who select for gameness have a responsibility not to abuse that trust: if you have men in your charge who would jump off a cliff for you, you cannot march them to the edge of the cliff. Does the vaccine matter? The Atlantic … Continue reading Gameness, vaccines, turtles, life and startups
CEO Uniform
Monday evening humour via Business Week: “These days, CEOs no more have to wear a suit and tie than senators have to behave themselves in Congress.” If you are wondering I don’t wear a suit. Continue reading CEO Uniform
Weekend reading
Dan Pink on the science of motivation – a Ted Talk Born to Run: if you are a runner, run get this book and wiggle your toes at the shoe giants! Startup advice: Evaluating risk and opportunity as a human by Paul Buchheit. Homage to Alan Turing. Continue reading Weekend reading
Examing ideas of success and failure
Alain de Botton examines our ideas of success and failure — and questions the assumptions underlying these two judgments. An interesting Ted talk: Continue reading Examing ideas of success and failure