There are 96 15 minute intervals in a day
(photo by ) How busy are you, really? A day starts with 96 15 minute-long sections – you have a limited number of these in your day – and you are not going to be 100% available during all of…
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There should be an App for a Personal API
There Should Be An App For That Apps and websites (and features) are becoming single function, best-of-breed experiences. And in the future (and the present) customers want to knit them back together into a mix-up of their own creation.…
5 Steps to Surviving and Thriving in Startup Life
On Climbing the Startup Mountain Life in a startup is a non-stop business. Whether you are aware of it or not, your work-life balance suffers, your relationships are strained, and your personal health and motivation may waver. Yet it’s…
We Need to Teach Digital Citizenship
How can we establish a local and national effort to better prepare young people to participate online? They need to learn how to identify and use tools; understand and model behavior that won’t embarrass their parents or themselves unless they…
Great Service Starts When the Customer Walks In
(image courtesy of Moleskine) THE SCENE: Your Average Neighborhood Art Store THE PROTAGONIST: Your Average Customer THE CUSTOMER’S RESULT: “Wow, I don’t think I’ll ever go there again.” How often have you walked into a store, found something on sale with a “can’t…
The hard thing about realizing it’s a hard thing
If you haven’t already picked up Ben Horowitz’s book The Hard Thing About Hard Things, you should. When I started to read Ben’s book, I thought that I already knew many of the things he would share, and that the…
Imagining the machine
Photo by zigazou76 You’ve probably been there: a meeting where there’s a great idea to make a new feature. “Wouldn’t be great if…” is often the trigger to a neat, as yet unproven idea. So how can you get more…
Getting to the next big small thing
Startups are a constant tug between hyperbole and reality. One day you might be wearing many hats and completing a series of tasks that you didn’t know were on your plate that morning. Another day you might be thinking of…
Entrepreneurship Starts with Asking Someone to Buy
Remember to ask for the sale. You’ve probably heard these words of advice many times – whether in the context of a prospective deal, a request for a favor, or in an interview prep – and the first time you…
Write out the list of things you need to do
You should do more writing when you’re thinking about the list of things you need to do. I wrote this list in longhand. That may seem strange in a world where we type practically everything, and I find it a…
