Entrepreneurship is all about learning, and learning is all about mistakes. Strategy and vision aren’t about knowing what to do but what direction to go in–eg. the values that matter, the deeper goals. It’s better to do dump crap in…
Sarah Blakely on Selling Spanx
There’s a fantastic video on Inc.com about the creator of Spanx, Sarah Blakely. It’s a phenomenal video for budding entrepreneurs because it highlights a number of things that affect people starting a new business: Learning — Sarah didn’t know anything…
Is the Secret to Success… Failure?
There’s an article in the New York Times that goes in depth into one of the most important recurring entrepreneurial themes: that a major secret to success is failure. There are a number of reasons why failure is extremely important:…
Brilliant Pub Marketing
Seen outside the Highlander pub in Ottawa:
Google+ First Impressions
It’s just started, and it’s silly to make extreme predictions, so I’ll keep this brief. Here’s the good and the bad of Google+ from what I’ve seen so far: Good: Circles. Building the whole system around “circles” of friends is an idea…
TwittenBacn
TwittenBacn [twid-n bey-kuh n] –noun A form of Bacn that is transmitted via Twitter. When some of your Tweeps are dominating your Twitter Stream with random chatter.