Posts Tagged ‘passion’

Crush It – Finding Your Focus

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

I read Crush It by Gary Vaynerchuk while I was on holiday a couple of weeks ago. It is a very good read, you can tear through it in a couple of hours.

It made me think that I should focus this blog on the things I am specialise in and the things I love to do:

  • Web applications
  • Building and operating technology businesses (operations, finance, strategy)

I think that as an entrepreneur once you have built a product and brought it to market; a big part of your success is how you operate your company and managing the finances. A lot of great business are no longer around because they failed to manage their businesses correctly.

Getting Inspired Resources – The Importance Of Passion

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010

As I have mentioned before it is really important to love what you do and enjoy your work. That being said everyone at some time or another needs a little boost of inspiration! I have felt a bit like that recently post Christmas and have found some really great resources that I wanted to share today.

Web 2.0 Show

This is a fantastic podcast, hosted by the superb Adam Stacoviak. I listen to this more than any other podcast and one in particular caught my imagination.
Episode 61 – Grasshopper, is a superb interview, the guys at Grasshopper have a very different approach to PR and a lot of good things to say about start-ups.

Gary Vaynerchuk

I love Gary Vee and he has such a great voice within the community, his passion comes across in everything he does. This is the first video I saw of him at the Web 2.0 expo and if you need a quick boost this is the video for you.
He advocates doing what you love, being 1% unhappy in your job is what you should strive for.

Start Up Inspiration

I watched a great video of Aron Patzner (CEO and founder of Mint.com). He comes across as a very personable guy and has some very good advice for the different stages in a the start-up cycle. This really got be excited about building a product business. There is one slide where he talks about pre-revenue valuations and he says that you should add $500k for every engineer and -$250 for every business guy to arrive at your company valuation.

Start Up School

This is another video, this time of David Heinemeier Hansson speaking at start up school 2008. He talks about just going out there and just doing it, building something, making a start; and also not being afraid to charge for your product.

There are lots of other articles and videos that I am sure you all know of, but these are my particular favourites, I hope you enjoy them.