Letters Remain

Category: entrepreneurship

  • On Being a Young CEO

    Inc. Magazine profiles 18 entrepreneurs/CEOs, all of whom are under 30. This generation, at nearly 80 million strong, is poised to be the largest, the most educated, and the most diverse in American history. That gives its members special insight into the largest, the most educated, and the most diverse market in history. They are…

  • Stop Searching for Your Passion: Do What You Do

    In many self-help and career blogs, people wax lyrical about how you should not cease searching for your ‘passion’; that elusive cause that you would be happy to devote your life to… something that makes ‘work’ feel like ‘play’. Gretchen Rubin of The Happiness Project, however, believes that asking yourself, “What’s my passion” may not…

  • Top 10 ‘Gen Y’ Blogs

    Ryan Stephens has produced a list of the top ten blogs for Generation Y. It’s an excellent list containing a number of blogs I already subscribe to; those I don’t read I’ll be checking out soon. Personal Branding Blog Hard Knox Life Employee Evolution Driven Leaders Newly Corporate Ben Casnocha Brazen Careerist: Penelope Trunk I…

  • Startups and Bad Economies

    Two weeks ago the renowned VC firm Sequoia Capital gave their portfolio CEOs a presentation on how startups should deal with the bad economy. In the presentation, the “entrepreneurs behind the entrepreneurs” gave some good advice any startup should follow in good and bad times (for example, “spend every dollar as if it were your…

  • Impossible Ideas are Great Ideas

    After his presumption that both eBay and Wikipedia would never go mainstream was proven wrong, Joel Spolsky realised what he calls “a fundamental lesson about the nature of technological innovation”. For Inc. Magazine Joel describes his idea that the most important innovations are often those that appear to be fatally flawed. […] “seeming impossible” is…

  • Best Book Ever Written for Entrepreneurs

    Paul Allen (the lesser) initiates a discussion on the best book ever written for entrepreneurs. It starts by saying that Guy Kawasaki’s infamous The Art of the Start is a must-read, but goes on to extol the virtues of Richard White’s 1977 book The Entrepreneur’s Manual; an, unfortunately, out-of-print book with many unique ideas. The…

  • On Business Books, Self-Education, and Mental Models

    I mentioned the Personal MBA Book List last week, and today have come across this interview between Josh Kaufman and Ben Casnocha, author of My Start-Up Life. Josh runs the Personal MBA Recommended Reading List — a list of the best business books one would need to read for a comprehensive business education. It’s a…

  • The Personal MBA Book List

    The Personal MBA is a site dedicated to helping people gain an MBA education without the expense of business school. It’s a self-study guide to advanced business topics and concepts. As Kevin Kelly—the founding executive director of Wired—says: No matter what they tell you, an MBA is not essential for landing or handling a good…

  • Tim Ferriss Interview

    This interview between Tim Ferriss and Derek Sivers—the entrepreneur who founded CD Baby—concentrates on The 4-Hour Workweek and provides a good recap and overview of the concepts. The following quote, however, feels more relevant to me now as it was when I originally read the book: To learn anything quickly, I approach people who did…

  • 7 Lies Stopping Us Starting Our Own Company

    Waiting for the right moment to start your own company seems like a perpetual waiting game. There’s always a reason not to, right? LifeRemix tackles the 7 lies preventing us from starting out own business: I’m too busy right now. I’ll start when I have more time. After I get an MBA, I’ll be ready…