Digital Narratives, Social Media, Growing a Community, Maximizing Life.
You have to show up every day. The endless days where nothing works have their own arithmetic that adds up to breakthroughs of genius. The sun will come. Everybody works for free at first. Free doesn’t really mean “free” though. Free means that you’re an investor. If you’re the entrepreneur, it means you’re an investor [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Edit: My buddy, John U reminded me of Malcolm Gladwell’s Tipping Point and Gladwell’s discussion of Mavens and Connectors. After you read the blog, read the Wikipedia synopsis of Mavens and Connectors. In this, the Age of Twitter, I propose a new category of attention spans. Let’s call it the “Twitter Attention Span.” The Twitter [...]
One of the more challenging things about graduating college in 2009 was finding a job in a down economy. Our economy’s outlook was so severe that even George Martin, St. Edward’s University President, spent most of his graduation address on some hard facts about the reality we faced once we walked the other side of [...]
When I use the catchphrase, Social Architect, I am referring to the process of building a social connection, a bridge, if you will, between formerly disparate individuals.