The Need for Achievement

I had a great conversation with Brad Feld today in the comments on his blog post: An Honorable Run and American Power. To keep things simple, i pasted it below. 0 @mattmireles· 1 hour ago Funny how solo endurance sports and entrepreneurship attract the same kind of...

Openness, Evil and Google

Chris Dixon has a great post today on Google's hypocrisy regarding openness. I think the title says it all: Google should open source what actually matters: their search ranking algorithm. His focus is not so much that keeping secrets is bad per se, but that...

Seizing Opportunity

Mark Suster has been killing it lately over at Both Sides of the Table. This gem is from a post entitled  "What Makes an Entrepreneur: Perspiration."For every person who comes into my office with a good idea I respond, “Don’t worry about your failure,...

Hiring & The Benefits of Radical Transparency

This post is a follow-on to The Scrappy Startup: Asset or Liability? TechCrunch has a great post today by Vivek Wadhwa: Stealth Startups, Get Over Yourselves: Nobody Cares About Your Secrets.   The essence of the article is that operating in stealth usually...