THE DREAM IN ACTION

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.”

Last night I had a conversation with Larry Chiang regarding ‘The Art of the Business Plan’ chapter in Guy Kawasaki’s “The Art of the Start“. We got to thinking about how plans are useless but planning is indispensable! I jumped over to re-read one of Larry’s posts on GigaOm and found this little tid bit [...]

Seth Godin, author of many great business books, most recently The Dip, wrote a ‘how-to’ that I found interesting and useful on his blog. His premise is that a business book is not like a cook book. It’s not just a recipe, its a recipe for 2 or 3 pages but the rest of the [...]

“I pitch therefore I am.” This week I read the chapter out of The Art of the Start by Guy Kawasaki called “The Art of Pitching” (CH3). The chapter is about how an entrepreneur seeking funding from VC’s can optimize his pitch to be most successful. Also, this week I had the first meeting for [...]