Frustrated, annoyed, and nearly ready to give up. That was how I felt as I wandered around during the happy hour at the end of the Founders start-up event. I had attended in part to learn, and I had indeed learned a lot at the sessions...
Bold. Unabashed. Audacious. Authentic. I’ve always had people that loved me for who I was, and my fair share of haters along the way. So even though I’d never heard or watched Bethenny Frankel before I sat down on a Zoom call with her, I immediately saw...
“ALL IN!” I’ve been playing the great game of poker on and off for the last 35 years. Poker is a game of skill and luck–it requires strategy, patience, and calculated risk. In many ways, business and entrepreneurship are the same. Every week when I play...
11 Principles for Public Leadership that Actually Listens, Learns, and Leads with Heart Over a decade ago, I wrote a little LinkedIn article called “11 Simple Concepts to Become a Better Leader.” It was inspired by my time in business — learning (often the hard way)...
Designers of video games, from Super Mario Brothersin the 1980's to Call of Dutyin the 2000's, were living in a world abundant with data about player activity. Every time you moved, jumped, shot, achieved, explored, created, leveled up, and died, they knew it, immediately. And...
I'm not sure about you, but I find myself using my smartphone more and more to conduct business, and my laptop computer less and less. As all of us increasingly use our mobile phones for business, mobile applications become not only helpful, but essential, to...
Recently, our software company Likeable Local began partnering with large companies to help reach more small businesses. Our first company, Likeable Media, works with many large companies as clients. So even though I don't have a boss, from time to time I've had to work...
On this Independence Day in the USA, I felt especially blessed, as I headed to Cooperstown, New York with my wife to take our daughters to the Baseball Hall of Fame for the first time. (After all, baseball isn't just a passion for me, it's...
Innovation is the application of new solutions that meet new requirements, inarticulate needs, or existing market needs. Organizations, and the people who lead them, love to think of themselves as innovative. Entrepreneurs pride themselves on their ability not only to be innovative themselves, but also...
How much money is enough? It's been my experience so far in business, that most people don't think they have enough money — and then they want more of it, whether they're making $20,000, $200,000 or $2 million a year. To test this thesis, I asked...