Life Lessons
Luckily I’m training with my friends who’ve done it before. They’ve assured me that it will be a complete suffer-fest. I think their words of reassurance were something like: “you think you hurt now – just wait until hour 10 when everything from the neck down is just one big cramp.” Thanks. I’m also grateful [...]
On April 23, over 20 awesome speakers are going to get together in SF for the Startup Lessons Learned conference. Bootup Entrepreneurial Society has kindly decided to host the simulcast in their Gastown digs. Speakers include: Eric Ries (founder of the lean startup movement), Dave McClure (the foul-mouthed, opinionated, and obnoxiously right-most-of-the-time angel), the KISS [...]
Aside from the continuing use of the annoying “save the planet” meme (the planet will be fine – it’s really “save the humans from an ugly step-down crash”) this is a great talk that Adam Werbach just gave recently tothe Teens Turning Green conference. Adam is the Global CEO of Saatchi and Saatchi, author of [...]
I haven’t outsourced my inbox yet like Tim Ferriss has. I still do it myself. So every time I hit Inbox Zero, I thank my friend Alex Samuel from Social Signal for her tweeting about her own inbox zero success. I used to have 3000+ emails in my inbox and another 20,000 somewhere in the [...]
Jamie Oliver pleads with us to stop killing our kids with crappy food: www.ted.com/talks/jamie_oliver.html Blaise Aguera y Arcas will blow your mind with the next generation of augmented reality mapping tools. Makes Google Maps look like crayons and paper. www.ted.com/talks/blaise_aguera.html Running more effective board meetings. Not rocket science but good basic article. www.cloudave.com/link/running-more-effective-board-meetings-at-startups It turns [...]
Here is a photo of the Club Fat Ass “Fat Ass 50 New Years Run” hosted by none other than Ean “Action” Jackson, who not only started this run 17 years ago but also managed to run it as his 100th ultra. And thanks to Sibylle Tinsel-Jackson, the Chief Fat Ass, for all the organizational [...]
Andy, I just heard today that you’re gone. Sorry to hear that mate. I enjoyed working out with you at Crossfit Vancouver. We called you “Nutts” for short because you were a big dumb-ass, always clowning around, but you always worked your ass off too. We were sad to see you go but knew you [...]
I spent much of yesterday mourning, remembering and celebrating the passing of a true renaissance man from our lives back into the Universe. On September 1, 2009, Jeffrey Walker – father, husband, son, musician, artist, creator, company builder, martini-drinker, guitar player, blogger, and all around crazy interesting soul – left us all behind for the [...]
Daya Baran has written two excellent posts over at WebGuild on the people, ideas, and capital that are fleeing Silicon Valley as the geographic center becomes less relevant. He quotes Jim Clark (of SGI, Netscape, and Healthon fame) who exited 10 years ago to Florida. Here are the posts: Part 1 Part 2 I have [...]
I am not normally much of a Seth Godin fan most of the time but I have to say that I really loved the TED talk he gave on tribes. It intuitively makes sense and I think he asked some really great questions and had a fantastic call to action. The key questions were: who [...]
Thanks to Brad Feld for pointing out this excellent article by Jonah Lehrer titled “How the City Hurts Your Brain…and what you can do about it.” Having recently moved from the Bay area back up to relative country side where I see trees mountains and birds all day, I can attest to much of what [...]
In the Trenches: Cutting Costs in a Tight Economy January 21, 2009 | 6:30 – 8:30PM Moderator: Mark Sherman, General Partner, Battery Ventures Speakers: Seth Sternberg, CEO, Meebo Auren Hoffman, CEO, Rapleaf Eric Ries, KPCB and former CTO, IMVU Munjal Shah, CEO, Like.com Jason Lemkin, Founder and CEO, Echosign NOTES: Jason Lemkin He built: Babycenter: [...]
Wow. I went to see MILK tonight at the Castro Theatre on Castro Street in San Francisco tonight. What an incredibly well done and powerful movie. It tells the story of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay elected official in the United States. It was incredible to be at ground zero for this story, in [...]
I read an awesome book recently that made me rethink many things about location, work, and business. It was Tim Ferriss’ book which I highly recommend. “ “The 4-Hour work Week: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich” (Timothy Ferris) I recently had reason to head to Paris for personal reasons. I thought [...]
Here are two interesting articles: one from Glenn Kelman, and a follow on from Guy Kawasaki on why serial entrepreneurs might not in fact be the best bet for funders. Interesting perspectives and I recognize some of Guy’s cautions from my own experience. Worth reading both articles.
This post at VC Confidential contains some fantastic quotes. I have excerpted a few of my favourites. “The trouble with the first time entrepreneur is that he doesn’t know what he doesn’t know. After a failure he does know what he doesn’t know and can beat the hell out of people who still have to [...]
I’ll keep this short or I’ll get all sappy. I love hanging out with this group and pushing our bodies and suffering together. It’s the best thing I could possibly do with my time. Thanks guys (and girls).
I have to duplicate this entire post here. It’s brilliant. Thanks Seth for the post. I filed this under Business AND Life Lessons. The best time to start is when you’ve got enough money in the bank to support all contingencies. The best time to start is when the competition is far behind in technology, [...]
Every time I read this I go off into fits of laughter. Having spent fifteen years now doing project management on one thing or another, I can relate to this very deeply. Sometimes Scott Adams really nails it.
I have the good fortune of speaking on March 21, 2007 at AJAXWorld and have chosen as my topic, “Maximize Your Revenue From Your Web 2.0 Venture”. The event “blurb” is here: What do you do to maximize your revenue? The options are exploding, the ecosystem is becoming more complex and nobody seems to be [...]
Here is a little video I threw together about our epic snowshoe running day on Cypress Mountain yesterday. Remember to get out and enjoy winter while it’s here! Thanks Ean and Blue for a GREAT day. Hope to have many more of these before the snow leaves us again. This film was made entirely with [...]
Here are the day 3 notes for the Web 2.0 Conference in San Francisco: [My notes and analysis in this square brackets.] The Alumni Report – Web 2.0 Launches Revisited: Michael Tanne / Wink: he gave a very long demo Veoh Networks: YouTube except for high-resolution long videos. We have figured out how to store [...]
Day 2 notes from Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, CA: [my analysis and notes are in these square brackets.]“What GoDaddy Knows” by Bob Parson, CEO of Godaddy You need to be careful about who to listen to – like analysts who don’t understand basic business. www.bobparsons.com – he talked about why they filed for [...]
Day 1 Notes from Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, CA Session 1: Enterprise 2.0 Mayfield had talked about SLATES – (search, linking, authoring, tagging, extensions, and signals) finally being possible on Socialtext’s new platform that they have formed with Six Apart, and a bunch of other companies called the Intel Suite. [I side with [...]
I was referred to this great story by my friend Lorraine today and had to post it immediately: [From Sports Illustrated, By Rick Reilly] I try to be a good father. Give my kids mulligans. Work nights to pay For their text messaging. Take them to swimsuit shoots. But compared with Dick Hoyt, I suck. [...]
Those of you who you know me well know that I disdain the entire “Balance Movement” with its focus on balance above all. Where is the balance in Stephen Wolfram squirrelling himself away in his attic for fifteen years to write his canon “A New Kind of Science” or in any serious athlete’s pursuit of [...]
On October 23, 2005 Dane Jesper Kenn Olsen, 34 became the first person to successfully run, in daily increments ranging from 14-93km, one lap around the Earth on land masses, setting a Guinness Book of World Records record. What began from the Old Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London, England on January 1, 2004, ended there [...]
Mark Morford strikes again. I have been having this very conversation with everybody I know. It seems that my entire circle of friends, colleagues, and acquaintances is in the midst of this overwhelming busy-ness right now. I have been questioning the value and the lack of stillness myself and then Mark, as usual, did it [...]
I found this in Rob Brezny’s Astrology newsletter this morning: “Wanting to reform the world without discovering one’s true self is liketrying to cover the world with leather to avoid the pain of walking onstones and thorns. It is much simpler to wear shoes.”-Sri Ramana Maharshi I like it. Very simple.
I caught this story about the death of Paul Pearce, a runner in the UK, through a Google link and had to post it. It sounds like this guy was awesome. I love that they asked for people not to wear black ties but to come in running gear instead. Good luck Paul in the [...]
