Category: Stories from the Trenches
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5 best tips for entrepreneurs that I learned while skateboarding
When I tell people that I still skateboard regularly, they are often surprised as tech geeks and hard-core skaters are groups that don’t usually overlap. It’s been my passion since childhood and by skating I don’t mean nice, clean cruising on a longboard but rather street spots, skateparks, tricks, falls and getting kicked out of Read more
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What’s in a name? a lot of meaning to start with
The act of choosing a name, be it for a new baby or for a company, has taken quite a cultural shift since the early days of history. Back in the bible days, every name had a literal meaning which had also had significance in the biblical story. Even today, those who follow the mystical Read more
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BizSessions 1.0 – The rising theory of the lean startup
On July 14th, we had our first BizSessions event (which i helped get off the ground) in a San Francisco venue. The general purpose of the event (www.bizsessions.com) is to help tech entreprenuers get more insight into business side of making a successful startups. The theme for the first event was funding in current cash startved Read more
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Why something for someone is better than everything for everyone
Malcolm X said that if you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything and this stands just as true in the world of technology start-ups. The reality is that most technology start-ups start around cool technology that engineers came up with (even though the stories in retrospective often might say differently). the problem Read more
Starting Up (and getting somewhere) 