I have spent a lot of time thinking about the steps that we entrepreneurs (mind you I said entrepreneurs not successful entrepreneurs) take that others don’t. And aside of the common concepts like taking risk or being visionaries, etc – there are more real, tangle steps that we take that are the catalysts for our […]
Tag: Entrepreneurship
We ARE Just HUMAN
This post is in acknowledgement of my very dear friend Aslam Najeebdeen. Why? — because we must acknowledge and support people in our lives — for no reason at all. Love and help others and good things will happen. — I met Aslam in early 2011 via a Ruby on Rails IRC chat room while […]
Bigger Than Business
I arrived in Silicon Valley for the first time in 2006 when trying to raise money for a social travel startup that my partner and I bootstrapped from my graduate school apartment in Tallahassee, FL. We had decided to pack up and head to the “motherland” to try to raise money and recruit engineers. I […]
Poem: The Wise Entrepreneur
In the past I wanted to start a company just to start a company. To give myself meaning. To make myself proud of I. I didn’t care if it was a great idea, really; and just rushed into it head first. I just wanted to BUILD SOMETHING. I just wanted to PROOVE SOMETHING. To Who? […]
Life, Love, and Entrepreneurship
Food for thought: Success is in the eyes of the beholder I’m 31 years old. Since I was a kid my mother tells me that I always had a curiosity and passion to build, invent, love, make music, and make friends. She reminded me of the time I tried to build a small boat from scratch. How I […]
Entrepreneurship is a Commitment to the Journey
I always joke around about how I have been torturing myself for nearly 10 years by being in the startup game as an entrepreneur. When I first started my career, I guess thats what you call it — “a career”, I swore I’d be rich and famous by 22, then it was 23, then it was; well, […]
The Non-Technical Founder Part 1
I have spent alot of time this year thinking about entrepreneurship, particularly as it relates to the start up technology world from a non-technical founder’s perspective, and I have come to a few conclusions: 1) If you are a non-technical CEO/founder your life will suck for a long time. The tech world is ruled by, […]