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December 2009
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The Problems With New Year's Resolutions
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What I love about the New Year is the hope that we all seem to have, every year, at this fresh start.
We believe we can change our lives.
Unfortunately, that enthusiasm and hope often fades within weeks, and our efforts at self improvement come to a whimpering end. That’s not great, but it’s also not inevitable.
New Year’s Resolutions usually fail because of a combination of some of...
You only need 1,000 True Fans to support you. →
The Way I Work: Jason Fried of 37Signals →
VV Show #39 - Guy Kawasaki of Garage Technology... →
Great Interview with Guy Kawasaki.
WatchMr Mushroom - Paul Stamets at the 10th LOHAS conference. Mushrooms will save the world.
VV Show #54 - Tim Westergren of Pandora →
It takes only a few seconds to customize a radio station on Pandora. Its founder Tim Westergren has been struggling for almost a decade to make it that way. Pandora was five years in the making before it streamed a single song to a user. For over two of those years the company was completely broke. While Tim convinced employees to defer over $1 million in salaries, Pandora underwent several...
VV Show #55 - Graham Hill of TreeHugger →
Graham Hill started the blog TreeHugger to cover green issues in 2003. After a steady climb in traffic and advertising, Graham sold the company to Discovery Communications in 2007 for $10 million. Since launch and even after the acquisition, Graham ran his business virtually. Graham lived in different cities from New York to Barcelona while working many hours to grow his company. His team of...
VV Show #50 - Derek Sivers of CD Baby and Muckwork →
ast time Derek Sivers was on Venture Voice three years ago he told us he had to “whack ‘em [investors] off with a stick”. Now we know why. Derek announces on our show for the first time the amount he sold his company for this past summer: $22 million. Derek owned 100% of the equity. Though he might have made more money than most of his fellow music entrepreneurs, Derek’s no...
VV Show #47 - Tom Perkins of Kleiner Perkins →
The name Tom Perkins is now almost synonymous with venture capital, but it’s clear that he cut his teeth as an entrepreneur. Educated at MIT and Harvard, Perkins first made his mark by managing the initial growth of Hewlett-Packard’s computer business while simultaneously inventing the first cheap and reliable laser. The company he built around the laser, University Laboratories, made him...
VV Show #41 - Premal Shah of Kiva →
Premal Shah believes your last name doesn’t need to be Gates or Rockefeller in order to make a real dent in global poverty. After leaving his job as a Principal Product Manager at PayPal, it has taken Premal less then a year to make good on Kiva’s pledge that all it takes to become a micro lender is a credit card and access to a computer. Raising money “Howard Dean Style”...
VV Show #53 - David Cohen of TechStars →
The title financier conjures images of mahogany desks and million dollar checks for most. But for anyone pitching to David Cohen’s TechStars, the outcome is getting accepted to what’s essentially a summer camp for entrepreneurs in Colorado and being offered a check of $18,000 or less in exchange for 6% of the startup. This two year old program is part of a new trend in structured angel...
VV Show #28 - John Bogle of The Vanguard Group →
If you’re making lots of money in a fat industry for doing relatively little, then the last thing you want is a competitor like John C. Bogle. He founded The Vanguard Group in 1975 and revolutionized the mutual fund industry by slashing management fees. By creating the world’s first index fund, John showed investors they could invest in the market without giving a large portion of their earnings...
VV Show #16 - Tom Szaky of TerraCycle →
Dropping out of college to start a technology company is almost a cliché. But is technology the only industry that can seduce an ambitious student into entrepreneurship? Tom Szaky dropped out of Princeton because he saw an opportunity in trash…
Genius at Work : Bill Strickland →
There's no speed limit. (The lessons that changed... →
Another powerful post from Derek Sivers about challenging yourself.
Ideas are just a multiplier of execution →
Derek Sivers wrote a great post for idea junkies like myself. The focus shouldn’t be on the idea itself but the execution.
Getting Real by 37 Signals →
This is a great book. Its very bold in its opinions. Short read.
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