“That’s been one of my mantras — focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.” – Steve Jobs,...
Start Hanging Out Wi...
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Stop staying around people who have your problems and start staying around ones who have your solutions. - Jeffrey G. Allen, Instant Interviews Background About a month ago, I was at local Startup Drink night and met Mohd Shahnawaz. Crying in my beer about my inability to get traction for my...
It’s A Pirate’s Life For Me
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Not just the Spanish Main, love. The entire ocean. The entire wo’ld. Wherever we want to go, we’ll go. That’s what a ship is, you know. It’s not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails, that’s what a ship needs but what a ship is… what the Black Pearl really is… is freedom. - Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl Light bulb! Last week the family & I went out to see Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides and the very last lines made me think about life as a Startup. Gibbs: Jack, I have to ask. You had the chalices, the water, the tear, you could have lived...
Startup Lessons Lear...
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You can’t connect the dots looking forward, you can only connect them looking backwards. - Steve Jobs’ Stanford University Commencement address (2005) Background I was preparing a Prezi presentation on my startup Lessons Learned, looking back to my blog and and our...
Apparently, it’...
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Some of us folks in the social software field need to take a lesson from 11 year-olds & Steve Jobs. Apple Specialists are at the heart of our reputation for extraordinary customer service. You love people. Have an encyclopedic knowledge of all things Apple. And can translate...