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The Dental Floss Health Care Plan?

21, Nov 2009

I stopped by Evoworx headquarters last night to say congrats to Aaron Goldfeder and Scott Case on reaching the one-year anniversary of their startup, EnergySavvy.com.
On the wall next to feature post-it notes, I noticed the official Evoworx Health Insurance Plan (see photo above).   Very funny!   But this made me think.   Highly accomplished, talented people leave [...]

The positive follow-up to complaints, failures and ideas.

9, Nov 2009

Complaints can be annoying, but when paired with solution ideas are valuable.  Failure by itself is a negative but when it comes with honest learning is the foundation of innovation.  Ideas by themselves can be worthless but when accompanied by follow-through can be worth millions.
Therefore, next time someone brings you any of these things alone, [...]

Does Seattle shun startup failure?

29, Oct 2009

Tonight I attended the UW CSE Annual Industrial Affiliates Meeting. As I walked around, I bumped into familiar faces close to the UW CSE and Startup communities. I asked people “how are we doing on entrepreneurship coming out of the department?” Surprisingly, feedback from 3 people very close to the issue was “we’re not doing too well.”

Competition. Am I screwed?

29, Sep 2009

I’m advising a first time web entrepreneur on a new service. This week he discovered a directly competitive service that is much further along and already launched. He wrote me asking “am i screwed?”


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