This post generated an enormous amount of interest. This is why I don’t give you a job (Hacker News discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3436244). Fascinating. There are some great comments. The responses boil down into two perspectives. One, that the government is a giant leech preventing entrepreneurs from succeeding, through regulation which makes it impossible to fire people and …
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Adaptable to transformable: whenever it gets easier, it then immediately gets harder
I feel like we have hit a wonderful spot in the world of entrepreneurship in the software world. It is so trivial to build incredibly powerful apps with a but few lines of code. You can prototype an idea, get it in front of users in a matter of weeks, and deploy it into the …
Google is not your daddy (or long term reliance on APIs is as bad as outsourcing)
At the near top of Hacker News is a post to the deprecation of Google APIs which the poster labeled “Why should anyone ever use a Google API again?” I’ll tell you why. We live in an incredibly exciting time. The proliferation of APIs allows you to build amazingly powerful mash-up businesses in weeks. There has …
Response to my article on entrepreneurship in Brazil
This was one response I got on my article “Is Brazil finally ready to fulfill on its destiny as the country of the future.” No, it’s not. Most of my extended family is in Brazil so my wife and I decided to work remote from Brazil for a couple months this fall. It’s hard to …
Is Brazil finally ready to fulfill on its destiny as the country of the future?
There is a saying that goes: “Brazil is the country of the future. And, always will be.” Maybe that is still true for much of Brazil but I believe it could shortly become a paradise for Internet startups. There is a lot of activity here in Brazil, and at first glance you would have to …
Ron Conway’s list
I love this list: http://www.readwriteweb.com/start/2010/09/ron-conways-7-tech-megatrends.php Social Real Time Location Based Services The Urban Entrepreneur Mobile Flash Sales Behavior & Transactions I looked at the current businesses I am working on and saw a lot of items that would fit. However, one interesting note was whether a startup that is focused on one space would be better …
peace: finding love
I met with my former business coach last week. When I worked with him in a business coach relationship, it was odd because the business coaching often required me diving into deeply personal things like feelings of self-worth, commitment and a bunch of other places I would never had assumed I would have to go. …