“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
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- January 26, 2012 – 8:45 am
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- By Austin
I had exactly three retail jobs when I was getting my degree at St. Edward’s University. Because of that I do endorse the common wisdom that everyone should pull a stint in retail or the service industry. This holds true in my experience because I took exactly two positive things from my time shilling under [...]
Categories: Changing Minds,Entrepreneurship
Tagged: Cigars, Entrepreneurship, iPhone, St. Edward's
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- December 30, 2009 – 12:35 pm
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- By Austin
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 [...]
Categories: BarnBuildr,Tech Ranch Austin
Tagged: Bootstrap, employment, Entrepreneur, St. Edward's, Start-Up, Venture Capital
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- November 23, 2009 – 9:57 pm
- Author:
- By Austin