THE DREAM IN ACTION

Venture capital is all about finding the right combination of profit potential in a business and the correct individuals to take that business down the right road. There have been businesses out there with incredible profit potential and a phenomenal idea but the people in place either weren’t the right people or didn’t make the [...]

This is my first post from Jott. I’m actually talking right into my cellphone and this should if everything goes correctly post to ryanagrave.com(?). I am in San Diego, California for the week and looking forward to a fun vacation with my family and my girlfriend. So I will end this Jott post and hopefully [...]

Reading BeyondVC, the blog of venture capitalist Ed Sim, I came across an interesting quote in a recent post, “companies are bought, not sold.” I want to go into the logic behind this quote because I think it talks to a critical misconception in the start-up and VC worlds, that you can aim at being [...]

This is my first of many blog post about venture capital and topics there within that my thoughts stumble upon. I hope that my journey of learning VC will be as exciting for you as I anticipate it will be for me. The first resource that really attracted me on this journey was the blog [...]

I’ve decided to use Posterous my favorite new “easy blogging” platform as my daily posts site. This is a site where I will feel free to re-blog things that I find useful or interesting and I’ll share images, quotes and anything that is to short or small or off topic to post on Ryan A [...]

As many of you well know I’m a huge fan of Gary Vaynerchuk of WineLibraryTV. Gary is authentic and uses that authenticity to build great businesses. A few weeks ago I reached out to Gary for a spotlight on ActionsTalk, my start-up that features great entrepreneurs and allows them to tell their story to our [...]

I have no money and my site doesn’t have a enough traffic to pay for it…but both of those things will come with time.With that said, I’m looking for some help in these following areas on my blog. If you’d be willing to help I’d be very grateful! Just shoot me an email at graves.ryan [...]

When I started this blog I primarily wanted to focus on start-up entrepreneurship and web 2.0.  I’ve done that and I’ve learned a ton from the web, from people seasoned in the industry, and from my own entrepreneurial start-up experiences. However, I’ve realized that I’ve missed one critical piece of this pie, the money! I’ll [...]

Tonight I attended Spreenkler, the monthly networking event in Milwaukee, to hear Harper Reed the CTO of Threadless and skinnyCorp speak. The talk was really cool with a very open format. Harper & Threadless engineer, Scott Van Den Plas, gave a great talk about the culture at Threadless and how it is possible to keep [...]

I’m currently reading The World Is Flat by Thomas Friedman. This quote really stood out to me this morning and is interesting to think about…I’d love to hear your comments and thoughts on this. “In China Bill Gates is Britney Spears. In the US Britney Spears is Britney Spears, and that is the problem.”

BarCampMilwaukee3 Planning is underway for BarCampMilwaukee3 (aka BCMKE3) which is happening in the Fall of 2008. Here’s the critical details you need to know. Date: October 4th/5th 2008 Location: Bucketworks Start time: 10am Saturday October 4th End time: 5pm Sunday October 5th Pre-party: October 3rd, 2008 – Location TBD

I recently read Purple Cow by Seth Godin. Seth is a professional speaker, a writer and an agent of change! It has been said that “Seth Godin may be the best intuitive marketer alive today”. I’ve read marketing books before and this one is different! The idea of the purple is this… When you drive [...]

Two days ago was the 1 month anniversary for Y Combinator start-up Posterous. I’ve blogged about Posterous before but they just released a new feature that is going to change things. They are doing an incredible job at simplifying blogging and now other things.  In the past (first release) you would just email to post@posterous.com [...]