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 [...]
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Tagged: Blogging, Disagreement, Entrepreneur, Marketing, Tech Ranch Austin
Conquer your enemies. Use your own agility to make your opponent move even slower. The faster you can make decisions and take action, the more deadly you will be when facing your opponent. There is a business book making the rounds at the Tech Ranch that, similar to the last paragraph, seems like it’s about military [...]
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Tagged: Bill Gates, Business Plans, Entrepreneur, Military Strategy, Nazis
TED was here over the weekend. And he brought with him some really interesting news on what motivates us in the workplace. Author Dan Pink, who has said many things that I like, including the statement that Right-Brainers will take over the world (GO TEAM), gave an inciting talk about the nature of motivation in [...]
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Tagged: Dan Pink, Entrepreneur, Motivation, Olympics, Practice, Tech Ranch Austin, TED
Here is a question that I’m posing to the greater entrepreneurial community, inspired by my new favorite blogger, Ramit Sethi of IWillTechYouToBeRich.com. What is the scariest risk to your business idea? I think there are two basic answers to this question. And I am convinced that I know how far you’re going to get in [...]
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Tagged: Confidentiality, Entrepreneur, Google, I Will Teach You to Be Rich, Ramit
Kevin got a pic of me leading my first self-developed program @Techranch. We do Thursday Brown Bag lunches on specific topics led by subject matter experts. We’ve done topics from Product Marketing to the year 2010, and had a panel of Junior Venture Capital partners from Austin, Texas. I focused on body language for sales [...]
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