One of the unfortunate parts of starting your own business is that from the “inside” you often lack the necessary perspective to succeed. In other words, you see all the good and not enough of the bad. And the place you are most likely to only see the good and not see the bad is [...]
This is a pretty simple lesson but one that is often overlooked by over-eager entrepreneurs. In the event you have any money in the bank, either through venture money or revenue or whatever, the last check you should write is to yourself. I mean, the LAST check. If you are in this for the long [...]
Ugh. Sorry for the lack of posts, but I can’t impart much wisdom upon the masses when I feel like an idiot myself. You see, since I last posted regularly, the company that I fought for for almost 4 years went out of business. And the greatest lesson learned in that is [...]
Friggin’ Paypal. So I bought some stuff on eBay and added a new credit card to pay for it. I selected the credit card. I clicked “pay.” Something didn’t take. And since Paypal doesn’t give ANY HINT WHATSOEVER as to what payment method on file they used to process the transaction, I assumed everything had [...]
Ho. Lee. Cow.
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January 31, 2008
Board of Directors
Yahoo! Inc.
701 First Avenue
Sunnyvale, CA 94089
Attention: Roy Bostock, Chairman
Attention: Jerry Yang, Chief Executive Officer
Dear Members of the Board:
I am writing on behalf of the Board of Directors of Microsoft to make a proposal for a business combination of Microsoft and Yahoo!. Under our proposal, Microsoft would acquire all of [...]
Every morning, before I put my feet on the floor, before I even open my eyes, I ask myself the same two questions:
“Is today the day you give up?” And I always answer “no.” Today is not the day I give up on trying to do better and achieve more through my work, [...]
Serious question. Are you building software or a web-based business? The differences are clear, but many entrepreneurs view themselves as the next Digg or the next YouTube or the next Facebook that they fail to realize what they are actually building.
The big difference, broadly speaking, is that when you build software, it can [...]
As I’ve trumpeted before, the 37Signals blog “Signal vs. Noise” is one to read. There are equal parts design, strategy, development, and business all rolled in to an easy to read form. Even better, the guys writing it have some real experience and real success. Anyway, they had a great post (linked [...]
It seems to have been a while since I last wrote anything. Apologies for that, sort of. I have realized that a lot of the lessons I’ve learned seem small in comparison to the lessons I am currently learning, so I’ve been less then enthusiastic on writing them. However, that isn’t really [...]
Someday soon, all the people sitting around trying to mashup pictures with video or turn RSS feeds in to ad widgets or link maps to product reviews will come to the realization that everyone is panning for gold in the same river. The folks at the general store selling the picks (Google) and shovels (Microsoft) [...]
