One of the single best things of the internet age is the ability to experiment and get fast, valuable and virtually real-time feedback. It allows the entrepreneur to figure out a market opportunity (or lack thereof) in far shorter times and financial investment levels than at any other time in human history. We are not advocating ill-conceived and half-cocked …
What a Wonderful World
You don’t have to look in a newspaper, or talk to a close friend or family member to hear about all that is wrong about the world. Issues – many legitimate – are everywhere. And many of those issues need to be addressed. Hand-wringing about where the world is headed is a favorite pastime of many. For a lot of …
Efficiency
No one is more aware of the scarcity of resources than the entrepreneur. It includes both human and financial resources. And perhaps most importantly, it manifests itself in the shortage of time: our most precious resource. We all deal with it in professional and personal lives, and many of us find there are wrenches in our proverbial engines that are …
The Crossword Puzzle
One member of our team loves attempting to solve crossword puzzles, particularly during travel as a way to “work” on something other than work. Unfortunately those crossword puzzles don’t always love him back. Seemingly every time a puzzle is attempted, it ends unsatisfyingly unfinished in one way or another. So at the end of a long flight as the plane …
Multi-Tasking is Completely Overrated
We largely reject the notion that the ability to multi-task is a good thing. How many of us know those people who always seem to have a bunch of things they are trying to simultaneously get off the ground, and yet seem to perpetually come up empty-handed? Look around and you will see them everywhere: 100 things they are trying …
A Champion’s Worst Emotion
In the wide spectrum of human emotions, regret simply must be considered the worst of the bunch. This is particularly true of people typically considered successful, lucky “overachievers” (not that luck has anything to do with achievement). To be powerless to go back and change or fix an event, regardless of how long ago it happened, can eat away at …