Entrepreneurship

#3 of the 10 part series on Docstoc and it’s about motivating some of the most important people in your company, engineers. It starts with the environment; they’ve got to love it there. Then pile on challenging and though provoking projects and your own the right track. Here are 4 things I like to do. [...]

#2 of the 10 part series on Docstoc and it’s about recruiting. Getting the smartest people (yes, smarter than you) to join your company in the early days should be obvious, but it’s not easy. Here are 3 tips that have worked for me. Link to DocStoc: 3 Tips for Recruiting Your First Superstar Employees

In my experience it’s the exact opposite. Sure, there are those that have a passion for money, but for most people, like me, passion is about things we just love to do; and we don’t always see dollar signs when we think of doing it. But there is a lot of evidence to support that [...]

I heard this last night; I’ve heard it before. It’s so true. So many people, including me at times, hesitate to say what they really mean, and often when they really mean to say is NO. For the person asking, it’s binary and that makes life easier. Sure, maybe the answer you want is yes, [...]

So I’m a big fan to Twitter, partly for reasons I can explain, which I have, but also for reasons yet to be discovered. I guess that’s what intrigues me so much, that there is so much still to be created on that platform. To that avail, here is my opinion about what Twitter should [...]

When I was a boy I loved LEGO. I mean I really loved LEGO. I was an only child and was often by myself; but I always had my LEGO. My mom accumulated literally two trash cans (well, those small 15 gallon ones anyway) full of the stuff over the course of 3 or 4 [...]

I pretty much always feel like there isn’t enough time and that I’m falling behind on getting to something that’s more important than what I’m doing right now. I know that’s a character defect I have, but I wonder if it’s common for entrepreneurs in general? This feeling is the strongest when I’m doing something [...]