THE DREAM IN ACTION

The importance of being represented well online is as high today as it has ever been. With the potential of being hired (or not) riding on a Google search, or a look through your Twitter feed, the name you make (or break) for yourself on the internet is critical. With social media going from nerd [...]

Two years ago today my good friend Blake Samic and I set out to be the Angels of Interviewers. This meant we wanted to interview entrepreneurs who were just on the verge of doing something classic, something disruptive. We called our video blog ActionsTalk because these were the people who were just diving off the [...]

So a few weeks ago Zappos sent me a couple books for free :) … Then on the flight back from SF last week, where/when I do most of my reading, I wrapped up ‘Delivering Happiness‘ by Tony Hsieh of @Zappos. I got the books as a part of their blogger out reach campaign. As [...]

Back in March on the plane to SXSW I read Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson’s new book called ‘Rework‘. In short, it was a phenomenal read. A very inspiring collection of lessons for entrepreneurs, but maybe more important than it’s inspiration, it was actionable. In standard 37Signals fashion it was a collection of blog posts essays [...]

So I just spent the wildest 4 day weekend down in Austin, TX for South by South West (SXSW), affectionately known as ‘South by’. The first 5 days of the conference are dedicated to ‘interactive’ which brings out all of the ce’web’rities. Only two weeks into running UberCab and this biz trip takes me to [...]

I’ve been thinking about how my new startup adventure is going to be different than my role with GE and a few things have risen to the surface. So, I’ve decided to do a series of posts on those topics. You’ll be able to follow the series under the tag ‘corpvsstartup’ here. When I joined [...]

…we seems to have a lot in common. In this short interview of Jeff Bezos, now CEO/Founder of Amazon.com, he talks about how he decided to leave his safe cushy job for a startup, Amazon.com. I’ve shared many of his exact thoughts in the process to leaving my safe cushy job at GE to join a [...]

Yesterday I had the *fun* experience of publicly being thrown under the bus. The individual inaccurately assessed a situation then cc’d numerous people on the email explaining her version of my incompetence (which was actually their incompetence, isn’t that fun). My immediate reaction was, what a bitch! But I tempered my immediate response and held [...]

In January of this year, I decided not to do resolutions but instead to pick 12 people I wanted to meet this year. Now it’s time to grade myself, reflect on the cool people I’ve met, and look for future opportunities to meet those folks I missed. Here’s the challenge I gave myself this year… [...]

I came across Andy Swan via Fred Wilson’s blog a few years ago and have followed casually for a while. The other day he wrote a post (below) that might be his best. Every once in a while you need a kick in the ass and this was it…enjoy. If you have comments on the [...]

@mollstar just made me the happiest man in the world. Now we’re headed to Costa Rica for 2 weeks. See ya on the flip.

Click on any image to watch the full video. Do you even realize how difficult this trick, a flip, is to do on a surfboard? Unreal. Full video here: http://surfermag.com/av/flash/introducing-matt-meola/

Today the Finnish government announced that it will become the first in the world to make broadband internet access a legal right of every individual in Finland. They’ll start in July of 2010 providing every person one-megabit of broadband connection with full intention to increase that to 100mb by 2015. This is an enormous first [...]

As of December 1, the Federal Trade Commission is going to require bloggers, and prominent tweeters and Facebook types to disclose any paid endorsements to their followers, online friends and readers. These new rules have the potential to change everyone’s online habits. A trend, al biet not a common one, among bloggers is to take [...]

In my short time in Chicago, I’ve realized that there are more folks into tech startups than many people realize, however our smaller but still passion startup community doesn’t quite have the “presence” and sense of availability of other startup hubs (ie. Bay Area & NYC). Hubs have events that pull these communities together and [...]