One of the coolest things that I do every week is have lunch or coffee with someone interesting or influential in Austin, Texas. I’ve been meeting and developing relationships with all sorts of really awesome Austinites for the past few months, so I decided to start posting about the meetings on my blog. You’ll read [...]
Categories: Coffee With,Entrepreneurship
Tagged: Coffee With, Entrepreneurship, Social Entrepreneurship
Saturday afternoon, I volunteered as a “production assistant” for We Are Austin Tech. My job was to record timestamps for each interview question and transcribe the answers. I took about 15 pages of notes over the course of the afternoon, and got to listen to interviews from some amazing entrepreneurs that I admire for how they live [...]
Categories: Entrepreneurship,Texas
Tagged: Bootstrap, Entrepreneurship
I am rebranding my blog right now. I started talking to designers and WordPress developers 2 weeks ago so I could get a logo and customize my theme. I’ve been mostly flying by the seat of my pants, figuring out the brand as I go, but it’s time for me to formalize my brand, my focus, [...]
Categories: Reflections
Tagged: Entrepreneurship, Reflections, vulnerability
“To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose one’s self.” Soren Kierkegaard, the Danish Existential Philosopher and Theologian said that. I love Keirkegaard’s work because he explores our emotion and choice when we as people face big life decisions. “Facing a big life decision” is a fancy way of [...]
Categories: Changing Minds,Entrepreneurship,Reflections,Rheumatoid Arthritis
Tagged: Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Reflections, Rheumatoid Arthritis, risk, Segway, Soren Kierkegaard, St. Edward's, vulnerability
New years resolutions simply don’t work. Don’t waste your time making them. Spend your time worrying about something else instead. Think about it. When was the last time you were confident about making a resolution at new years and then sticking to it? When folks talk about their new years resolutions, I rarely hear [...]
Categories: Career,Employment,Entrepreneurship,Networking,Reflections
Tagged: Economy, employment, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Marketing, New Years Resolutions, Unemployment, vulnerability, Writing
Here’s a list of everything that I’m reading right now. Since I got a Kindle Touch for Christmas, I’ve been reading differently. I bounce back and forth between the Kindle and the physical books that I have started. I’m definitely reading more that I was, and differently. Since I’m constantly reading, I thought it would [...]
Categories: Branding,Career,Changing Minds,Entrepreneurship,Reading List,Reflections
Tagged: Blogging, Copywriting, Entrepreneurship, Marketing, reading, reading list, Writing
Before he passed away, my Granddad, the beekeeper, would tell these fantastical stories of his entrepreneurial journey. He would talk about saving his nickels and dimes in order to buy Chevy Trucks, or a few acres of land, so that he could work more and make more money. The stories were fantastical because a few [...]
Categories: Career,Changing Minds,Entrepreneurship,My Granddad
Tagged: Blogging, chevy truck, Copywriting, Economy, Entrepreneurship, granddad, macbook pro, Marketing, Practice, Reflections, saving money, starbucks, vulnerability, Writing
I’m using my blog posts to process what I’m thinking about. That includes networking and entrepreneurship. And it also includes things I’m worried about, and things I’m learning. The blogs I read the most are the blogs written by men who candidly share their flaws and use what they write to process their experience. [...]
Categories: Entrepreneurship,Networking,Reflections
Tagged: Austin Gunter, Copywriting, Economy, Entrepreneurship, Hunter S. Thompson, Life, Marketing, Reflections, vulnerability, Writing
Level of Focus determines how good of a networker you are. Focus makes it possible for anyone to walk into a room and know what they will get before they leave, why they want it, and how to get it. Focus means planning to know what’s important and unimportant. Most importantly, focus means that knowing when [...]
Categories: Branding,Changing Minds,Entrepreneurship,Marketing,Networking
Tagged: Definition, Economy, employment, Entrepreneurship, Marketing, Unemployment