One of the key tenets of my life is “do what you love.”  It is the reason I spent two years teaching English in Japan (because I wanted to experience living in a foreign country), why I took an unpaid internship at GarageGames as an MBA student (because I wanted to work in the video […]

Networking.  It’s who you know, not what you can do.  You gotta get out there and meet people.  Schmooze.  Enjoy late night parties at conferences and have war stories of getting drunk with strangers in bars.  It’s all part of the game of launching a new business. Or so they say. I hope they’re wrong. […]

Way, way too late one night this week, Jacob and I got to talking.  It was one of those late night conversations that involves a lot of inside jokes and giggling, the laugh of the sleep deprived.  We discussed where we thought Fellowstream could take us: we would hit a million Twitter followers, manage 20-person […]

I am amazed how often people will completely abandon an idea after they test it out once.  It’s easy to find examples from daily life.  You write a great essay and show it to one person who hates it, then throw it away.  You discover a new restaurant and ask one friend to go, who […]

I just saw this characteristically brief post on Seth Godin’s blog celebrating the death of the “big event.”  He no longer sees the need for big annual sales events, big product launches, or other big marketing events that cater to mass  marketing. To be honest, I’ve never been good at the “big events.”  I enjoy […]

Is the customer always right?  I’m going to go out on a limb here and say, “no.” In the first place, the customer doesn’t always know what they want. The first time I heard of deep frying a turkey, I balked.  You mean, the same thing you use to cook French fries, you want to […]

Entrepreneurs with a vision fear that someone, somewhere, somehow will capitalize on their idea.  How many times have you had a “great idea,” only to see that someone else has already launched that product or service? In the last four months since Jacob and I began fleshing out Fellowstream, we have seen company after company […]

I’m not too proud to admit that I still have a Hotmail account.  Back in 2002, it was my primary e-mail account, but now I use it to sign up for random sites that I don’t quite trust.  Perhaps due to the way I give it out like candy, that Hotmail account got hacked yesterday. […]

Jacob and I love video games and got into a lively discussion about our favorite types of games.  This eventually led us into an argument about the “good” and “bad” games out there on the market.  Not surprisingly, there are games that I like (Animal Crossing) that Jacob would never touch with a ten-foot pole, […]