THE DREAM IN ACTION

Last week I drove back up to Milwaukee for the first time since my move in early August to speak at Web414. I was asked by the founder of Web414, Gabe, to share my experience of failing at a startup (SocialDreamium), a topic that people usually shy away from sharing. The main reason that I [...]

Learning From Others As I work on my “Lessons Learned” post after closing down SocialDreamium (post should be ready by Wednesday) there is one main lesson that sticks out above the rest. The one lesson that I couldn’t wait until Wednesday to post is the importance of learning from others experiences! As a first time [...]

Today, I’m announcing my plans to close SocialDreamium, LLC. This decision, which came about over the last month or so, was a challenging and complex one. Either way, I’ll tell you that this decision revolved primarily around money, competition, vision, and team: maybe the most critical factors of a successful startup. SocialDreamium was attempting to [...]

The first version of this post was a bit more detailed but I lost it because of wordpress sucking…here’s the second version. Brad Feld wrote a post encouraging people not to post “2009 Predictions” or “2008 Year in Review” posts…I agree with him. I commented… Brad- On the whole I completely agree, however, I will [...]

Image via Wikipedia Tonight I was reading the Harvard Business Publishing site and there was an article that caught my eye. It was called, What Surfing Can Teach Us About Managing the Unexpected, and was all about responding to such tough economic times. The point was made, very well, that it’s not so important how [...]

This pitch was given by John Buckman, Founder of Magnatune at LeWeb Paris today and really hits home for me. It includes phenomenal lessons of starting up as well as great lessons for people looking for a job and deciding what type of work to get involved in. I’ve talked on Twitter and on this [...]

Today when Amazon had there little S3 hick-up, the pictures/avatars in Twhirl (my Twitter app of choice) wouldn’t show up. I realized that my experience using Twitter was significantly worse without the picture and I realized that the picture that shows up next to the 140 character message is significantly important. In the olden days [...]