Can Entrepreneurs Be Made?

Saturday, February 27th, 2010

What are the unique characteristics of entrepreneurs? It is a subject that I think about from time to time. Over the years, I identified a few patterns and I use such patterns in judging other people whether they are entrepreneurs or not. Here are the patterns that I identified and ...

A Geek’s Guide to Startup Banking – What do you do after you close financing

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

This is my 2nd post in the “Geek’s Guide” series about all the things that entrepreneurs hate to do, are not good at doing them, but have to do them anyway. These things include office space (My first post is on this topic), legal, HR, administration, banking, accounting, insurance, payroll, ...

Social Expeditions Looking for CTO

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

My friends at Social Expeditions are looking for a CTO. Below is what they are looking for: Social Expeditions is a company behind blockbusters on Facebook and MySpace. Millions use our products. We are profitable. This is no coincidence because we are obsessed with our customers. While many features ...

Bill Gates, Microsoft and Corporations

Friday, June 16th, 2006

Wah, Bill Gates is leaving Microsoft to focus on giving away his money...Though the transition will take two years to happen, this signals the ending of an era. What would microsoft be without Gates? MSFT is officially becoming a different kind of company. Over the last 30 years, Microsoft's capability ...