This film captures the journey of two individuals at Startup Weekend in Toronto: Ronan Levy (Delirious App) and Eugene Woo (Vizualize.me), and explores what it means to start your own business.
Loved it.
The question is, will your failure be the lesson that enables someone else to be successful or will you get the benefit of your failure?
Should Entrepreneurs Buy Into the “Changing Pace” of Innovation from @FastCompany
The article will give you insights to chew on, but it’s the above question that lingers in my mind.
And I think I got it to a point where I’m very comfortable with two simple principles. Which is, when looking at what you want to do with your life, find the way to optimize who it is, the quality of the people that you get to work with and the flow of opportunities that you’re going to be in the middle of because great people support each other and build great networks that reinforce this recycling of opportunities.
And the second is, great opportunities are essentially where you go next.
Randy Komisar on Optimizing Career and Life Opportunities via Stanford eCorner
Travel essentials: Belkin Mini Surge Protector Dual USB Charger →
I try to keep this with me always. While not perfect, it’s small and superbly functional.
I highly highly recommend this device.
When we travel, we try to pack as little as possible. On this trip, I tried to limit myself to 13 pounds. That’s really not a lot of stuff, so it’s critical that we only bring necessary stuff.
When I packed the “Belkin Mini Surge Protector Dual USB Charger” (recommended to me by Joe…
America's Healthy Infatuation With Entrepreneurs - The Atlantic →
We cheer for them because they represent our youthful hopes, our idealism, our ambitions and our dreams. And when these entrepreneurs defy the extraordinary odds, and succeed, we rejoice, for at the moment we can sense, if only fleetingly, the exceptional untapped potential within each of us. We rejoice, and wonder: what if?
For whatever reason, nothing has inspired like this has. My favorite talk. Thanks @plibin.
foodlatio: Los Angeles, I Love You →
You met her at a bar.
She was a perfect 10.
Actress. Model. Dancer. Whatever.You’ve seen her in pictures, watched her on TV, and heard about her from friends but you always wondered. And now she is right in front of you, but there’s just one problem, she’s a raging bitch.
She rarely…
You can’t solve this problem alone. You’re rebuilding an ecosystem. Who are the other organizations that must be part of your solution if this is going to succeed?
I am with @umairh (Umair Haque) on this one. Ideas matter. It is a skill to communicate the ideas in your head in a way that has meaning to others. And it is important to challenge your ideas to be substantial.
