Two months ago I came across an ad in the print edition of the Wall Street Journal that struck me as so inspiring that I clipped it and posted it on my refrigerator. The ad shows a golfer standing on a bank, staring down at a ball that landed on an inaccessible rock next to [...]

Entrepreneurship is vital. I don’t think anyone would deny that. Much has been said about the importance of entrepreneurship in the economy. As the Kauffman Foundation notes on its site, “Entrepreneurs renew society by constantly looking for opportunities to make products, institutions and practices better.”
But let’s take the discussion a step beyond utilitarianism and ask [...]

One objective that I have for this blog is to share lessons and advice that can help entrepreneurs with the process of starting their businesses. In addition to highlighting resources that I come across on the web, one way in which I hope to accomplish this objective is by sharing observations from my own experience [...]

Sports can often serve as a useful analogy for entrepreneurship. Both are high risk, high return fields where you can win, but losing is always a possibility, as well. Your success or failure is going to be played out in front of a curious public. Building a good team and a system is critical for [...]

Benjamin Kuo at socalTECH.com observes with irony that the long-standing Silicon Valley criticism of Southland startups as too money focused and not visionary enough ran aground at TechCrunch50 earlier this week. The Bay Area startups at the conference were described as modest, whereas the only startup “swinging for the fences” was L.A.-based CitySourced.
While I wouldn’t [...]