According to Wikipedia The etymology of “business” relates to the state of being busy either as an individual or society, as a whole, doing commercially viable and profitable work. My belief is that anyone slightly aware of the macro trends in today’s society quickly realizes that the future (3-5 years) of business as usual must [...]
There are two methods of getting RICH and both are necessary, but only one allows you to live a simultaneous life RICH in meaning! The first way of getting rich is to ‘extract value’ or in the farming vernacular “harvest” crops and extract every possible element of value from the end product. The tools of [...]
We live in the age of unprecedented opportunity… We live in the age of exponential disruption… We live in a time of tremendously turbulent market and business cycles… According to Malcolm Gladwell’s work in Outliers it can take north of 10,000 hours to master a skill and make it part of your rote conditioning. Assuming [...]
ALERT: Only 20 shopping days left fellow Holiday Shoppers and only 25.5 left in 2012…Wow. If you are like me you will no doubt have some tough people to shop for still left on your list as the hustle and bustle of holiday parties, work obligations, year end planning, and family portraits make the days [...]
Wow of all the 12 month periods I have experienced in my lifetime, I can honestly (and somewhat embarrassingly , because I feel like I sound “old” when I) say that this year went FAST! I am officially on my 36 month countdown to the BIG 4-0 today and I am READY to make it [...]
To make a Million just make $1000-1000x; To make a Billion you must make $1m-1000x, and to make a Trillion you must make $1m-1,000,000x. Since our projected budget for the coming year is just under $3.8 Trillion in spending this means we spend roughly $10.4B per day ($4B of which we borrow each day as [...]
I am going out on a limb and making the bold claim today that San Diego will become a respected venture eco-system known as The Silicon Beach by 2014 and will become part of the mainstream start-up and tech industry nomenclature . I predict that the long established local assets and infrastructure such as unbelievable [...]
Recently (like me) you may have noticed an amplification in the number of wall posts on Facebook related to one home-based business opportunity or the other. Pictures of lifestyle, live events, products, someone’s bare feet in the foreground with a pool or ocean and the subtitle “My office” in the background, etc… This visual example [...]
A few weeks ago over 1000 developers (and yours truly) gathered for the annual Uplinq (2012) Conference in San Diego, and it was a few days of thrilling conversation, hackathons, and major announcements regarding the future of mobile gaming, mobile retail, mobile security and developer ethics, and the most exciting and largest challenge of all–Mobile/Wireless [...]
When you think of the many skills needed to invent a new way of doing something, build a business model around it, recruit and retain talented people to create, innovate, distribute, and evangelize it, stay ahead of market shifts, competition, and an ADD consumer base, it can be a pretty difficult task to rank them [...]