THE DREAM IN ACTION

As I work on  logos for ActionsTalk and other projects, I found this to give me a little artistic inspiration.  I’d say this is a good place to start…

  This is the kind of class that I wish I’d taken in college. I probably wouldn’t have been able to hang as a Computer Science major but I do think the real world nature of this class is something that I would have loved. This course covers everything from the coding of these applications (technical), product development, and market [...]

Given the recent kudos I gave to Google, you could probably have guessed that I am in full support of the recent discussion between Verizon and Google regarding a mobile phone partnership.  Verizon is in deliberations about carrying a mobile phone that would be customized to Google’s soon to come mobile OS.  Verizon, the second [...]

Jott.com“gott” me very excited. It is a start up that allows you to voice record messages and send them as text messages to the people in your contact list.  It took me about 10 minutes to set up the account and it took me about 5 more minutes to set up the ability to Jott [...]

Cha-Ching… Today it was announced that Microsoft is to invest $240 million in Facebook and expand their existing relationship into international markets.  The $240 million is less than a 2% stake in Facebook.  I just wonder what Zuckerberg and pals are going to do with the other 98%?  Read more at TechCrunch.

If it takes more than this poster to motivate you, try this… Yossi Vardi, (an original investor in ICQ) quoted a Theodore Roosevelt speech from 1910 in a discussion held a TechCrunch40 last month to draw a parallel to today’s entrepreneur.             “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out [...]

Mint.com, the new start-up that helps users manage their personal finances is legit.  They just won TechCrunch40 the start-up competition put on by Michael Arrington’s blog TechCrunch.  The night they won I went to their site to sign up but I experienced very slow load times and nothing seemed to work quickly at all.  Apparently, [...]

I’ve been writing on ActionsTalk.com for about 2 months now, probably not as frequent as I should but as the site accumulates posts I struggle with which directions would be the most beneficial for myself the writer and you the reader. It originally was going to be strictly writing about taking action towards a start-up. [...]

Regarding love affairs…also apt for a business… “Any fool can start one, it take a genius to end one successfully.” -George Bernard Shaw

The next post on Actions Talk will discuss the idea of finding the passion behind your business and more importantly finding the business behind your passion. Also, we will discuss how to find the job that will put you on the right track to fulfill your entrepreneurial goals.

I was reading an article in Fortune Small Business magazine and I started to question the Web 2.o draw. The article was, “Old Dogs, New Tricks – How smart entrepreneurs find innovation and profit in sleepy industries. (May 2007)” Why is it that so many of us 20 somethings immediately think web start-up when we [...]