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Startups, Startup Weekend and failure

June 27, 2011

Starting a business is hard. Running a business is even harder. Starting a business in one weekend is damn near impossible. But I just watched 13 teams develop ideas into real-world, viable models in right around 54 hours. Local food, NFC-enabled business cards, writing lessons for kids and a new way to bring back that [...]

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An authentic failure

October 13, 2010

It’s no secret that being yourself isn’t easy. Our jobs require that we hide some of what we know, our social norms expect us to tell little white lies and the constant connectedness of the digital world constantly remind us that everything we type, and sometimes say, is being recorded. All the world is a [...]

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Fail Fast?

January 30, 2010

Image by Terry McCombs via Flickr The now old adage tells us to fail fast, so we can succeed quickly. We shouldn’t waste our time prolonging ideas that will eventually not work. But the problem is too many people don’t realize that in order to truly fail, you have to believe 100% that you will [...]

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Practice what you preach

December 9, 2009

For years we’ve been told global warming will kill us all. Good thing we have a team of powerful people working on it, yeah? All those private jets, limos carrying few people…wait, that’s not right. Makes you question what the hell they’re talking about, right? In a time where every speech, action or sometimes thought [...]

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