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The List Is Life (or: Ma’am, step AWAY from the To Do List.)

January 14, 2010

I have a To Do List. Had a To Do List. Unlike many, mine was not actually written on a stark page titled To Do with numbers and lines and arrows. Not for me the paper prison. My To Dos were scattered on tiny purple post-its, in mental notes and calculations, in tweets, and in [...]

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“Serial Entrepreneurship” And Being Who You Really Are

November 16, 2009

I wince whenever I hear or read someone calling themselves a “serial entrepreneur.” To me, the whole concept of “serial entrepreneurship” (and yes, I’m going to keep putting it in scare quotes) is unreal and screwed up. Put on someone’s website, it telegraphs un-trustworthiness and – frankly – skeeviness. I don’t want to do business [...]

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Return on Investment (or: How love puts food on your table.)

November 9, 2009

I’m always in the pulpit on this blog about giving value without demanding a return – but sometimes it really is nice to get something back for all your efforts. And let’s face it – none of us would be in business if we didn’t want something. Figuring out what investments you’ve made and what [...]

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Puppet Shows and Overnight Success

November 3, 2009

I don’t usually listen to people’s conversations while I’m on the subway. Two men stood by the door talking. The younger guy – obviously upset by a conversation he’d been having with an artist friend of his – was complaining loudly about some success or other that the arrogant SOB had had. The older guy [...]

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Is Your Sales Funnel More Like a Sales Sieve?

November 2, 2009

I want to adopt a Golden Retriever. By all accounts, I’m a fantastically qualified candidate. I have extensive dog ownership experience, have trained several dogs (including greyhounds straight off the racetrack, who had never even seen a house before), and have volunteered for years at various breed rescues. I work from home all day, and [...]

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Things Entrepreneurship Teaches You (or: OMG Darth Vader’s in that cave!!)

October 29, 2009

I’ve been working on side projects all week instead of what I ought to be working on. Instead of what I’d like to be working on. Why have I been working on side projects all week? Because Darth Vader is in that cave, and I’m scared to go in. If you haven’t seen the original [...]

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Why I’m Not Buying Any More Info Products. (or: How Merlin Mann changed my game.)

October 26, 2009

I’d been procrastinating over watching Merlin Mann’s latest video. Sure, everyone watched the little 5 minute Merlin Labs bit (“Giant Cock Paper” – heh!), but the other one? Man… 40 minutes of my time! Then I remembered how much time I spent dicking around on Regretsy last night. I watched Merlin’s thing. There are things [...]

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Entrepreneur Juice. (or: How Malcolm Gladwell Gave Me My Business Back)

October 19, 2009

All work is creative work if done by a thinking mind. -Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged Blah. This week in New York has been nothing but rain. And the greyness of the days has only been matched by the greyness of my small Harlem office as I tapped away at emails and lists of ideas for [...]

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Doctors vs. Lawyers. Changing Incentives. (And a survey!)

October 6, 2009

“IT Guys” suffer from an image problem. We’ve all seen the stereotype of the sleazy, ambulance-chasing lawyer who combs hospital emergency rooms looking for accident victims. Finding someone in pain, he offers them the “solution” to all of their problems in return for a hefty fee. The lawyer isn’t invested in the victim’s long-term recovery [...]

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Full-Time Entrepreneurship: Day 1

September 29, 2009

I woke up late, of course. I say “of course,” because I’d forgotten to ensure that my alarm clock was actually on before I went to bed. 8:45 already – damn! I laid in bed for a while contemplating the patterns of light and shadow on my ceiling. It took a while to remind myself [...]

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