Measure Twice, Cut Once Before Your Scissors Rust
Complicated lesson from my dad
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Unrig It Yourself! A New Year’s Intervention of Hope – for Doers
(This is a re-post of Steve Faktor’s viral original article on LinkedIn) Matt Damon recently said “the system is rigged.” Immediately, I felt horrible. If the world is against this handsome, famous, multi-millionaire, what hope does a business hobbit like me have? He’s not the first to repeat this feel-bad, defeatist mantra. It was a cornerstone of the
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Unbreaking American Innovation: Three Ways to Reinvent Reinvention
I’ll be first to admit that I’m a reforming “innovation” trollop. I’ve thrown the word around too lightly, at any old sailor. I need a hot shower and a Brillo pad… What’s so bad about “innovation”? It doesn’t mean much…and maybe never did. Today, we use it to describe an iPhone newsreader app and the reinvention of space
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The Risk that Ate the Digital Entrepreneur: Surviving Platform Risk
Beware of building your business or career on someone else’s platform—a survival guide.
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The Venture Capitalist’s Walk of Shame
I recently read a scathing review of several new services offering free or nearly free phone calls over the internet. Assuming you get past the fact that this mystery has already been solved, the mere existence of these services raises a few confounding questions: Why would anyone design such bufoonish, overly technical services? What kind