“The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.” —…
We fight to hold on… and we fight to let go…
“As a business changes, the…
Always in Transit:
Meet Sohila Zadran (Berkeley ‘07), Strawberry Creek Ventures Principal
The young entrepreneur and polyglot VC distills why she’s eager to invest in Berkeley-connected…
«Теперь вы не так глупы» от Дэвида МакРэйни сегодня у нас в рубрике book a day 188. Приятного прочтения самого…
Last week, I quit my day job. After working at Twitter Inc. for five and half years, I left to pursue…
Hi there,
I am here again after a long time. I was too busy with Gozzip and other things. Because we started to change!
We published Gozzip on June 2017. Since that time, we focused for growing and development. We…
One of the most impressive things Google, as a company, does internally pretty much since day one of their existence is TGIF (which stands for “Thank God it’s Friday”). TGIF is a weekly all-hands (back in the day on Fridays, today on a Thursday to accommodate Googlers in all parts of the…
每個月總有那麼幾天，我們幾個從德國、芬蘭、西班牙、英國、土耳其與台灣的媽媽們，都會約定在送孩子們去幼稚園後來個「咖啡小聚」。
The real man of GOD Pastor Gino Jennings of First Church in Philadelphia preaches on the sensitive topic of divorce and remarriage.
David Hawkins, the author of Power vs. Force, mentions 17 levels in his map of consciousness.
I took a year off.
I focused on my stuff.
On learning, on healing.
It’s a process I started years earlier but it sure ain’t quick.
The Entrepreneurial CEO: When Turning 10 Means Starting A New Chapter
Tomas Gorny has gone against the grain multiple times in his life, even when it’s…
Por sexto año consecutivo, Google abre la…
In 2012, I attended Women in Innovation in Seattle. I loved it. I loved speaking and…
Separate post for day 1 here.
Renowned Creativity expert, Ken Robinson, in his well-received bestselling book The Element (2009)…
You make some interesting points, but owning the bulk of their real estate is not a viable strategy for We Work.
You might have noticed we’ve been quiet for the first few months of 2018. If you…
I’m sure many of us struggle to find purpose in life. Especially with the current successful tech…
Does this even need an introduction?
Rencontre avec Samuel Manassé, Co-founder et CEO @ Smile&Pay
Failing My Fitness Startup
I wrote this blunt & honest blog post in December 2017 to share my thoughts & be vulnerable about the challenges of running &…
At my core, I’m a bootstrapper so I totally admit this is gonna be biased. I like the thought of building something from the…
People often talk about the power of compound interest and how investing money early in life can lead to long-term gains. The principle makes sense: the interest that you gain through your initial investment can…
Don’t hold onto something that doesn’t make you happy.
That doesn’t make you feel good about yourself.
And the things you do.
Printivo is an online print provider that provides its customers with free templates created by designers across Nigeria. Born out of love for paper, ink and the belief that business should not end on the internet, Printivo aims to help Nigeria business print marketing and…
I used to have possible dreams. Now I live with inevitable outcomes.
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Desde hace más de 40 mil años nuestros antepasados comenzaron a pasar el conocimiento con las pinturas…
Growing up in Memphis, having the right pair of shoes is essential when you are a teenager in school. It could honestly…
Why ForSet? We get this asked a lot when talking about the journey that our team started a year ago.
And it never will be.
A lot of people believe in luck.
That you need luck to become successful.
That you need luck to write a bestselling book.
The African Entrepreneurship Award exclusive “Priceless Mentoring for $1M” event held at the Wennovation Hub, Lagos on Friday 11th May. The event was put together to get volunteer mentors for the African Entrepreneurship Award 2018 was to serve as a point of contact…
Como se ve habitualmente en nuestra sociedad, estamos rodeados de modas y tendencias que nos…
Le 10 Avril dernier, nos membres Lean In France ont pu visionner le long-métrage réalisé par Nora Poggi, “She Started it”. Ce documentaire suit pendant deux ans, de San Francisco au Vietnam en passant par la France, le parcours de cinq femmes…
Your first 100 blog posts will suck.
Your first 5 books will suck.
Your first 30 talks in public will suck.
Your first 50 paintings will suck.
I must admit to this fact that funding remains a major roadblock to most entrepreneurs across the globe. Many great ideas and projects are dead for lack of funding. But I must also say this, a problem should never be an…
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Having just come from a conference on “Redesigning Work” where satisfaction from working, the positive value of work, engagement at work were not even mentioned. Mostly the talk was about UBI which was pretty much about if we didn’t have to work maybe we’d enjoy life more.
Holland, Michigan was recently recognized as the best small city to start a business…
The greater the risk, the greater the potential reward!
And I think in the end, if we fail, we can use our skills and go into the corporate world and get a 9 to 5 job, and see what that has for each of us.
Just because we’re entrepreneurs doesn’t mean we don’t have a ‘real’ job, dang it!
THE BOUNDARY LETTERS
Why do I need a Boundary Letter for my business? The reason is simple. Creating agreeable boundaries is likely to reduce or eliminate…
How you perceive something affects how you approach something. If you’re able to change the way you think about something, you just might be able to get more value out of it.
SOME WISDOM'Thats why we spent so much time talking about your goals. Making them happen is often much easier than figuring them out. You just have to be clear in your mind. You also have to be clear in your emotions.'
The last line got me thinking. This was culled from a book im reading at the…
Day two started with the “Precision Farming” panel which had Yewande Kazeem, founder/MD, Wandieville Media; Lois Sankey, Head, AgricFinance Diamond Bank; Onyeka Akumah, Founder CEO, Farmcrowdy; Kola Masha, MD, Babban Gona; and Dami Runsewe, Senior Manager, Segment…
1. The Principle of God First (First Truth):
No Longer a slave towards $11/hr
Finally, I have decided to leave my job after working for that place for 2.5 years. Sometimes you have to be bold enough to…
Worldopoly AirMiner is a demo of the In-Game-AR-Advertisement feature of our main game…
#NYCShopSmall is about giving…
Recently, I witnessed an interesting interaction between a mother and child in an airport. The scene is most likely…
When you are an entrepreneur especially when you first start your venture the only thing you…
After struggling with issues of various nature, I finally succeeded into becoming a Medium Member.
A startup founder’s first fundraising round can be both terrifying and exhilarating. It’s the…
The Kickstarter’s Dilemma
All of us know Kickstarter, the backbone of the internet bootstrapping movement since 2009. Chances are you’ve probably been asked by a friend to contribute to their campaign at some point in time only to secretly hope for them to fall short of the target so you could get back the $186 you shelled…
Marks vs. Mastery
Test, Pass, Forget, Repeat!
Thank you, Ryan, for sharing how the ‘Briefcase Technique’ can be effective to get what we want. I’ve used this on a much scaled down version for some interviews some years ago, with better than average results, though not what I’d wanted at the time.
As many of you know, we moved our business from Denver, CO to a small mountain town high in the Rockies. We live, work, and play in a town of approximately 5,000 and business is booming. Why? In part: Our small-town mindset.
“May the force be with you” ~ Luke Skywalker
I have always been the question asker: I want to know who, what, when, where, why and how as I learn about a new topic. And this habit is what has led to my entrepreneurial work in college.
Every night you go to be at 11:02pm on the dot.
You go to bed at such an early and specific time because you’re quite the health conscious individual.
Great post!
I totally agree about leading people and writing things that really are informative and bring value to the reader.
Until about 5 years ago I was grossly concerned with how people perceived me.
One cool podcast I recently started listening is Backwater Entrepreneur https://soundcloud.com/backwaterentrepreneur
Do you wonder where the good MLM leads are? The ones that will actually have a conversation with you? Or those that…
Alisha what are you doing? “Playing guitar and singing.”
4 hrs later
Alisha what are you doing now?
Finnancial? Jelas klise. Bukan saya menolak realita tapi cobalah untuk jujur terhadap diri Anda pribadi.
Sebelum saya menulis lebih jauh, Anda tidak diwajibkan mempercayai apa yang saya tuangkan di dalam tulisan ini. Namun saya ingin mengajak Anda bermain dalam…
Have you ever sat down in silence…just to breathe in, meditate and appreciate how far mankind have come?
To begin with most of us were born at the hospital, educated in school and currently working in a company. All these…
Venture Capital is not the only way of financing their business for Entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs usually resort to Venture Capital as a last resort. There are two reasons for this:
Everyday, a great food product made in the U.S.A.
Kareem Elsirafy is a successful entrepreneur who for many years has provided technological solutions to various business and social complications. Specializing in operational design and causal relationship economics, Kareem has provided expertise from problem identification and assessment, to…
Dave Ulrich — fondly referred to as the Father of modern HR — simplifies the HR’s professional in a model across four roles;
Personal Growth includes activities that improve awareness and identity, develop talents and potential, build human capital and…
Hay algunas cosas que tienes que considerar.
Van De Hey Refined Roofing, LLC (VR Roofing) is a slate tile roof company in and around Waukesha, WI. We…
Costs/Pain we embrace to achieve our goals are actually the most important thing.We actually did not know that how this helps but at the end always positive results occur.The story I want to share here is about the admission in Punjab University.I do a lot of hard work in entry test…
The other day I was doing an online roundtable for a friend of mine and one participant had a question that I hear a lot.
They spoke in frustration about the fact that they were always connecting people and yet, no business was ever coming from it.
What a great post, Micah. Congratulations on a great 3+ year stint at Amazon — which I think is today’s most powerful company. Amazon IS the nexus of the startup and the “big” company. In my view, no other company behaves like Amazon — so well on so many fronts. Amazon seems to have been the perfect learning-place for a guy like you who I’m sure…
Know About Airbnb Clone Script. Understand How It Can Help You To Start a Vacation Rental Business.
Rishi, thank you for sharing this. Having to face such decisions is one of the toughest challenges an entrepreneur can face. And when it happens, you’re often completely alone.
Few years back, with college students stressing about exams, scrapping pennies to buy their weekly supply of magi and losing themselves in virtual world of social network, starting a company would have been the last thing on their minds. They wondered as they pondered over the possibility of entrepreneurship in college life.
Do you ever feel stressed out in your personal, professional or business life?
Do you feel impacted by stress often?
Is stress stopping you from performing at your best?
A leader’s purpose is to bring out the best qualities in each employee, but it doesn’t normally work that way when outdated strategies come into play. Traditionally, people with boisterous personality traits are put into leadership positions because their superiors often mistake…
When i was in my seventh standard i lost my father that was the big loss for me. When I think of my dad, I think of hard worker. My dad has never had a fancy job, but he has always made sure the bills were paid, and that our needs- and even some of our wants- were met. My dad has worked multiple…
Patience is hard…
We want things and we want them now. Success, significance, love, money, etc. It’s…
The story people tell themselves about your business is what defines it.
A little scary, right?
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Creme De La Jolla Cynergy TK is a component based on Functional Keratin, a substance which is often found in your Skin Care Review. Using a product which has it, your body will on-line to start collagen production and your wrinkles…
If you’re determined and hardworking and are ready to push yourself to the limit when it comes to work, why let someone else benefit from it? Start your own business and attain new heights and job satisfaction. There are many advantages of self-employment and if you’ve been…
Most of us want to earn money, right? And most probably we love to earn money in an easy…
