BornEntrepreneur

Does that correlation exist?  At this point, I’m not totally sure.  The inspiration for this post comes from that the fact that over the past several weeks I’ve been doing multiple sets of pushups daily on a regular basis, and because I’m not exactly the most muscular guy in the room, I’ve started to notice [...]

All the buzz lately in the tech world is about the bid that Microsoft put into to buy Yahoo!.  Some people are pretty anti-deal, but I think it could be one for the record books.  I always enjoy when the internet landscape totally transforms.  Google made it transform—hell, they’ve OWNED the internet for quite some [...]

So, I’ve been realized that other than holding on to some shares of Microsoft since my 16th birthday, I really know very little about the stock market—and picking winners.  I figured I’d lessen the gap of knowledge a bit by picking up a couple books on investing in the stock market.  Here’s what I learned [...]

It does not make sense to have an advertisement that appeals to a small group of people in a mainstream location.
For example, I saw a big poster on the wall advertising a cement truck company.  When people see this, it does not apply to them.  Find out where cement truck customers go, and advertise there!  [...]

Trump: How to Get Rich by Donald Trump
I just read this book in one sitting. It was a casual, fast read. I didn’t have super high expectations as the reviewers on Amazon only rated it 3/5 stars. There were a few good nuggets of wisdom, though, just as I had hoped. [...]

Willie, a delivery guy from Dean Foods, comes to Mozarts Coffee in Austin TX every day at 12noon and goes through the same process. With a huge cart on wheels stacked with gallons of milk, he clumsily navigates his way down 7 stairs and then up 3 stairs. I wonder if anyone has [...]

Paradox goes as follows:

Company A buys mainstream advertising. Ex. TV advertisement
Competitors, Companies B & C, must spend extra money on ads to keep up with Company A. This causes an oversaturation of messages to consumers, which decreases effectiveness (and sales).
In response to decreased effectiveness and decreased sales, Companies A, B, & C spend more on [...]

Why is it that when people talk with someone else they discuss events, rather than feelings?  “Yesterday this happened, and then we did this, and it was cool, and then we went here, etc, etc.”  Are we so secretive as a species that it is a faux pas to mention feelings in conversation with an [...]

I’m getting older.  I say this a lot, but what do I mean by it?  I do not have the urge to listen to loud obnoxious music, except at certain times.  I no longer like to drink very often—hardly at all actually.  I do not even really like to drink period.  I do not like [...]

Being an entrepreneur is a solo experience.  It is…  It isn’t…  We could go into a long discussion about it.  None the less, you spend a lot of time alone, very few people understand what goes on in your mind, so eventually you begin to distance yourself from people—realizing you’re a bit weird.  All of [...]