Setting Audacious Goals and How They Can Cripple You
These days it seems like everyone had grand goals and plans. We set these grand goals for ourselves and our businesses, I'm going to get 1,000 new customers, I'm going to lose 50 pounds, I'm going to learn a new language, I'm going to learn to paint, I'm going to...
I Will Gladly Pay You Tuesday for Work Today
Or: Why pay for performance is bad for everyone One of the most common arguments in the SEO and internet marketing community is whether the work being done should only be paid for if there are positive results. There are plenty of arguments on both side, if you are...
Sparking Innovation and Inspiration
Many of us work reasonably alone or with the same small group of people every day. One of the hardest things to do when working solo is to jump start the creative process. Without a group of people to bounce ideas off of, or even serve as an intelligent distraction,...
Aaron’s Law – Balancing Criminal and Civil Law in Computer Crimes
By now every one knows, or has at least heard, the story of Aaron Swartz. Arron was a brilliant person how fought for what he believed in and in the end, paid the ultimate price at his own hand. Aaron was prosecuted under felony charges for what any one with a...
Using Google Plus As A Blogging Platform
Recently I realized that I like doing way too many things to be a decent blogger. My life is full of passions and desires that simply do not overlap in a way that makes any sense at all. This is how I ended up owning 7 different blogs. And also how I ended up finding...
Learn Something New Every Day
You never know when today's success will depend on what you learned yesterday.
Venture Deals [review]
I recently finished Brad Feld's and Jason Mendelson's fantastic book on venture capital deals. The book is based on a series of blog posts from the blog at Foundry Group. It takes much of what has been written there over the years and pulls it all together into an...
Angels and Entrepreneurs
I was recently asked to take part in a round robin interview with Rand Fishkin (@randfish) of SEOMOZ and Nova Spivak (@novaspivak) of NovaSpivak.Com and hosted by Sheldon Campbell (@docsheldon). The three part interview revolved around the the problems and pitfalls...
the difference between pre-money and post-money valuation
Recently I was working with a few people on a new project we are collaborating on (all hush hush right now) and one of the topics was determining how to place a valuation on the company. While it's not terribly important at this point, it can become an issue later in...
eric schmidt starts spreadin’ it around – again
We beat up on Eric Schmidt on the podcast quite a bit mostly because he makes it easy by speaking what is on his mind without much in the way of a filter. But he really is a brilliant man in his own right and he tends to do things in a way that hasn't been tried...
starting over at 45
I recently turned 45. This tends to be a milestone number for a lot of people, since it's unlikely I'll live past 90, we can say I'm over the hill at this point. The problem is, I don't "feel" over the hill. In fact, if anything, I feel more optimistic and in control...