January 2008
8 posts
“Entrepreneurs are, on average, significantly wealthier than people who work in...”
– Harvard Business School
In otherwords if you aren’t wealthy or come from wealth, find someone who is successful & mine them for advice. Listen to their advice. Follow their advice.
My dad has worked for himself forever. I try to learn from his success and failures. I also absorb as much...
R.O.M.
So, as a percentage of the time you spend at work, what percent would you say qualifies as “marketing”?… I know some well-paid people who used to be world-class marketers who are now down in the single digits (less than 10%). Ouch.
Seth
It doesn’t take a marketing guru to figure out that your Return on Marketing is paramount, but why does it take anyone to remind you...
“Neuroscience is confirming what we all suspect: Multitasking is dumbing us down...”
– The Atlantic
I'm a hero for fulfilling simple, nice, requests.
I get the nicest email sometimes:
You mean you’re going to…. That’s very decent of you. This is always a painful exercise, and I’ve been through hell with….
You are my hero. I notice you’re in facebook, when i checked my contacts earlier. Mind if I send you an invite?
Why? People ask me nicely to do things for them & I’m small enough to be able...
You're Going to Need a Bigger Boat...
theinfo.org:
This is a site for large data sets and the people who love them: the scrapers and crawlers who collect them, the academics and geeks who process them, the designers and artists who visualize them. It’s a place where they can exchange tips and tricks, develop and share tools together, and begin to integrate their particular projects.
This sort of activity was my major R&D...
“Running a startup is NOT about revenue anymore—it’s about critical...”
– Calacais
*Ev is Evan Williams of Blogger fame & now Twitter.
This is also a pointer to those of us outside of the Silicon Valley “Moneysphere”. Typically we’re playing a different, non-sexy game. Adjust & deal with it.
Tales From The Cockpit
My name is Steve Mallett. I’m best known for owning, running, blogging, and running OSDir.com (est. 2001-ish), a +4000! (US), better world-wide, Alexa world-wide traffic ranked website about open source & linux. OSDir is in fact the main reason for the creation of Inevitable really.
I’m foocamp alumni. (04-05) I think. Here’s a pic of the board from one of those years. ...
