I hope i’m not coming off as a Perry Marshal fanboy in too many of my posts, but he gave me pause for thought again today. He put flesh on the bones of some thoughts I have been having for the last few months.
Perry’s email follows below :-
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Recently, I consulted with a student who had [...]

Sometimes I find genius in the most unexpected of places. This small quote is from Perry Marshal, and its just right on the mark.
“Your business isn’t about you and your stuff, it’s about them and their stuff. Somebody decided to spend a few minutes of their life on your website. Give them what they came for. It’s a worthy endeavor.”
 
 
I am [...]

Here is a great benchmark for testing if you are really being entreprenerial in how you are thinking, what you are doing, and how you are conducting your projects. So the question is are you a Wanna-be or an Entrepreneur?
1. Wanna-be’s obsess about ideas. Entrepreneurs obsess about implementation.
2. Wanna-be’s want more web traffic. Entrepreneurs focus [...]

Here is a topic I touched on in one of my previous postings. Its about making mistakes.
Often when I meet entrepreneurs there is a part of a conversation dedicated to where they have been and what they have done to get them to where they are in their careers. Also often part of this discussion [...]

There are some very fundamental thoughts and rules that I use when I am conducting my Entrepreneurial day to day activities.
One of those is. “Anything that is worth doing is worth doing badly”.
Why is this a useful thought? Well I find myself sometimes getting bogged down in the details, being too worried about making mistakes [...]

I just recently spoke to a new Entrepreneur who is just getting started. He is actually connected with Guy Kawasaki on Twitter, but had not seen the art of the start video. This is a must see for all Entrepreneurs getting started, it basically in 40 mins tells you all the useful stuff in his [...]

I was at the venture lounge in Bonn yesterday. www.venturelounge.de
I was attending the event with my friend and business partner Michael Altendorf (http://www.futurewebstrategy.de/), and we were there to talk to VC people about our project that solves the problem of moneterising social networks.
It was a fairly interesting day at the venture lounge but a little [...]