Umar Haque is one of my favorite new business authors. I found his blog on the HBR list that I follow, and downloaded his short essay Betterness: Economics for Humans onto my Kindle to start reading it. The essay is short, about 80 pages, and is an ideal read for entrepreneurs and psychology dabblers like me [...]
Categories: Entrepreneurship,Reading List,Social Architect
Tagged: Betterness, HBR, Social Entrepreneurship, Umar Haque, Writing Exercise
I’m not one for watching YouTube. Cat videos and Justin Bieber don’t entertain me much. But I found this video because Bret Hurt, Founder / CEO of Bazaarvoice, tweeted it out, citing the importance of good company culture encouraging employee productivity. Bazaarvoice is famous for their culture, so I queued this up and listened to [...]
Categories: Branding,Changing Minds,Entrepreneurship,Social Architect
Tagged: Community, culture, Google, innovation
I think that Occupy Wall Street has been losing steam over the past few weeks. I’m starting to see fewer articles and less media attention directed towards the various activist communities who call themselves the 99%, many of whom are part of Generation Y. While I have very strong reservations about being associated with the movement, [...]
Categories: Changing Minds,Occupy Wall Street,Reflections,Social Architect
Tagged: Analysis, Generation Y, Models, Occupy Wall Street, Social Activism
Thanks for checking in and reading this. I’m grateful that you’re here, especially since I haven’t spent much time producing content for this site in nearly a year. Part of the reason that I wasn’t writing on my blog was a lack of confidence in my own ability to generate something useful that my readers [...]
Categories: Changing Minds,Entrepreneurship,Social Architect
Tagged: college, education, Entrepreneurship, graduation, internship, RISE
Entrepreneurs, here is an important distinction in your customers that I learned at the Wizard Academy a few weeks back. As you sell your product or service, you will deal with two meta-customers in your business. One is ideal. The other is a time-suck. Respectively, they are called Relational and Transactional. It’s important to learn to spot [...]
Categories: Random,Social Architect
Tagged: Entrepreneurship, Ramit Sethis, Selling, Start-Up
Not spending the weekend at SXSW Interactive feels gnawing and incomplete. I am a tech entrepreneur, after all. Shouldn’t I be running around 6th Street, badge dangling around my neck, iPhone out, tweeting #SXSWi hash-tags all day. The answer is probably. I’m pretty sure that I missed out this year, especially given the panels by such Thought [...]
Categories: Entrepreneurship,Social Architect,Tech Ranch Austin
Tagged: iPhone, Obsolete Technology, Steve Jobs, SXSW, SXSWi
This is a post from the Tech Ranch Austin blog, and a response to Tech Ranch Partner Cristi Jakubic’s blogging post about why not to blog. When Cristi Jakubic writes something, everyone around the Ranch pays attention. This goes double for me. Few others have the experience she does in the trenches of marketing. Cristi [...]
Categories: Entrepreneurship,Social Architect,Tech Ranch Austin
Tagged: Blogging, Disagreement, Entrepreneur, Marketing, Tech Ranch Austin