TakeLessons.com on NBC San Diego
Quick video on TakeLessons on NBC San Diego March 6th 2009:
Progress
“Contentment is wanting what you have. Ambition is wanting what another has. Progress comes from wanting what nobody has.” – Bob Lewis
The Value of Good Business Partners
I've been an investor in a local San Dieo nightclub for the past five years with three other partners. All started well, and we made mo' Benjamins. But, as other hot nightclubs came onto the scene, our bar lost some of its cache. Eventually, we had to do capital calls and placed the business up …
6 Helpful Clues for CEOs | AlwaysOn
Image via Wikipedia 6 Helpful Clues for CEOs by Guy Kawasaki. Read and see how your startup is doing. This reminds me how important it is to be blatantly honest with your business. You simply can’t believe your own hype. Deal with the reality you have, not the one you wish to have… 6 Helpful …
A VC Gets On Board with Profits, Not Revenues
I found this story from Fred Wilson, Union Square Ventures. I've always found his posts to be thoughtful and useful: "I think that's an important part of the economics of the web that are left out of most discussions of Internet business models. Yes, we are turning analog dollars into digital pennies in many cases. …
Seth Godin – How to Survive the Economic Downturn
Seth is right. Focus on keeping expenses in line and build something that your customers really want. The days of “get big fast and burn money” are over.
How to Set Goals : My 2009 Goals
I'm a big goal-setter. My junior year of high school, I got sick of being fat, never going on dates, and being cut from the baseball team. So, I wrote down "10 things I want to do" on a piece of paper, made copies, and hung them up everywhere I could – in my bedroom, …
The Purpose of Strategy
I am reading a quick note from Phil Rosenzweig, Wharton and Harvard guy: "High performance comes from doing things better than rivals, which means that entrepreneurs have to take risks. Decisions must be made where there isn't 100% accuracy. Thus, strategy involves making decisions under uncertainty. The goal of strategic analysis should therefore be one …
Self Growth
Working on yourself like clay should be one of your greatest and most pleasurable life tasks. It makes you, in essence, an artist. An artist creating and shaping yourself. – Robert Green
The Reason We Form Companies
"The reason that a group of people get together and exist as an institution that we call a company is so that they are able to accomplish something collectively that they could not accomplish separately – they make a contribution to society as a group that is greater than the individual contribution.” David Packard, FounderHP …