There are a lot of great things about living abroad. One thing though that sucks is the difficulty in finding books in English. In the past I’ve lugged 30 lbs of books down with me to BA every time I go back to the states.
This changed this week when my friend brought be down an [...]
Amazon Kindle Rocks – and will be Free One Day
FIFA, Get Your Head Out of Your Ass – Three Rule Changes to Make NOW
The World Cup is the best international sporting event in the world, hands down. The Olympics don’t even come close. In the Olympics, 90% of the sports basically only exist because the Olympics exist. Platform diving, curling, biathlon, come on…
Unfortunately, the organization that rules soccer (football) is barbaric and idiotic with their rule decisions. FIFA [...]
The Lean Startup – A Life Changing Concept for Entrepreneurs
Today I would like to share with you all, what I think, is the best business concept I have learned in the last year.
I present you – The Lean Startup.
The concept of The Lean Startup was first coined by entrepreneur Eric Ries in 2008. The core idea behind it is that it is basically [...]
The Death of Twitter
For all of its hype over the last few years, I don’t see how Twitter can possibly thrive going forward. To me it is all hype and early adopter craziness, and unfortunately it is getting killed by my one dollar vs two dollar argument…
Would you rather have one dollar or two dollars?
The answer of [...]
The Prototype Theory
Theory: Every small business should start with a prototype.
If you are going to start a business, the best way to get it off the ground is to build a basic prototype first. Cut everything extra out, get down to the bare minimum, build your initial products, then try to sell them. Most people that [...]
Business Reading List for Budding Entrepreneurs
The other day I had lunch with my new buddy Maria Macdonald and we talked about how we’re going about building our respective brands. Maria runs a pretty damn cool Spanish language online magazine/mailing list called YoQueVos that is based around Buenos Aires. Think Daily Candy meets Buenos Aires.
After a lengthy review of my dating [...]
The Next Picasso will be a Digital Artist
I saw the future at the Carsonified ‘Future of Web Design’ conference this week in New York. Graphic Designer Joshua Davis gave a presentation on how he makes amazingly beautiful art using Adobe Flash and ActionScript (programs that enable designers to create movies/moving images).
Joshua Davis from Etapes on Vimeo.
What Josh does though is more [...]
Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish…
I love this talk by Steve Jobs at the 2005 Stanford commencement ceremony.
Announcing Uplifted
Hola readers – I hope you are doing well. I’m very happy to announce on this blog my new company, Uplifted. We’ve been in business now for 3 months, and it’s been a great ride. We’ve been really busy, but I am thinking that I may even be able to take a day [...]
