Even though I like to talk about ideas, generating them and turning them into profitable businesses, I tend to be a little tight lipped about my own specific ideas for obvious reasons. However, I have more ideas than I’ll ever have time to execute on so from time to time I come across ideas that …Read More
GeekBrief.TV
February 21, 2008 By Leave a Comment
I really admire people that chase their dreams and find a way to set out on their own while doing so. A couple of months ago I ran across GeekBrief.tv, a clever podcast (in HD to boot) hosted by Cali Lewis and became an instant fan. I’m a geek at heart after all and always …Read More
Archimedes and Economics
February 18, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Archimedes realized that you can measure the volume of an object by measuring the amount of water it displaces when submerged. What does that have to do with business? Well, I think you can measure the value of an idea by its ability to displace, or in the more common vernacular “disrupt”, existing products, ideas …Read More
Alternatives to Help Lower the Cost Of Starting Up
February 15, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Like many entrepreneurs, I have in the past made the mistake of racking up expenses before I was actually executing my business because I thought I needed those things in order to make my business work. It takes money to make money right? Well, that old saying is really only true in it’s literal interpretation. …Read More
Why New Ideas are More Important Now Than Ever
February 12, 2008 By Leave a Comment
I never really got over the disappointment I expressed regarding the Behance post which suggested ideas were “an engaging, brain-spinning indulgence,” and their founder who was quoted as having said “if anything, we have a surplus of ideas. Excess ideas are our greatest cost. What we need is fewer ideas.” What I should have mentioned …Read More
Perception = Recession = Opportunity
February 7, 2008 By 2 Comments
Perry Marshall wrote an interesting rant about the perception of a recession as opposed to the reality of one. I tend to agree with him though as he acknowledges, that perception can become a self fulfilling prophecy. So what does that mean for us? Opportunity! While everyone else is either pulling back or is too …Read More
New Business Ideas
February 5, 2008 By 1 Comment
When we get stuck trying to develop new ideas for businesses, or new revenues streams for existing businesses, we can look in the cracks between what is already known for opportunities which are easily overlooked. Yes, it sounds easier than it is sometimes but one way to think about this is to step back from …Read More
