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TechCafe Happy Hour @BlueBoxGroup
I must say that I am pretty excited to go check out the event on Friday – nearly sold out (10 spots left)… We have been planning this one for some time and can’t wait to see all the great people in the Seattle/Bellevue/Redmond tech community come out for Happy Hour. Last year was an awesome year for TechCafe events – so awesome we took a few months off from getting geeky with the best startups and technologists in the area – rest assured though we are back and planning a few awesome events. If you are interested in sponsoring or hosting one – let us know! First up is one of our personal favorites. Blue Box Group! We have been watching this team grow for a while now and it has … Read entire article »
Filed under: NW events, Seattle, seattlelunch20, Startups, TechCafe
The Difficulty of Pursuing Your Ideas
I recently came across this story on TechCrunch about Fitbit’s new $12m business Fitness Tracker Fitbit Raises $12M To Market New Wi-Fi Enabled Smart Scale, Aria. Like all ideas, someone else thought of this one well before Fitbit thought it up. In fact when I thought it up eight years ago, I probably wasn’t the first to think it up either. But being a relatively good idea that I thought I had at the time, seeing this funding got me thinking. Why didn’t I pursue that idea further seven years ago? Whether you are an entrepreneur, an intrapreneur, or even a wantrapreneur. When you have ideas that you think are good, what holds you back from pursuing them? Is it fear, is it being lost at where to start, or is it … Read entire article »
Filed under: career, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Investing, Startups, Technology
What You Say Matters
Following up on my post about the modes of communication I found this video by Simon Sinek on leadership, inspiration, and doing something meaningful important – Sinek explains how these are all tied together and need to be used at the same time. I believe that the message you are providing matters just as much as the mode you are communicating that message in and Sinek provides some great insights into making that message more important. Definitely some good lessons here for people and companies to think through when they communicate with people. … Read entire article »
Filed under: career, Entrepreneurship
Does The Mode of Communication Matter?
Communication is at the heart of all things in life… finding the love of your life, raising a round of financing, getting a promotion, or enjoying life with friends and family. Some of those communications are obviously more critical than others and some are more time sensative than others as well. Living in a world where corporate training dollars fuels the research and instruction that permeates our training attention we are all well aware of the communication styles that research such as Myers-Briggs brings us. This is good and we all make efforts to adjust what we are saying depending on the type of person we are talking to (more data/less data, small talk/straight to the point, etc.). All of this focus on communication style seems to skip the relevance of … Read entire article »
Filed under: career, Entrepreneurship, Investing, RealEstate, Technology
Organization of Entrepreneurialism
There is an age old debate in the world of startups… go big or build a lifestyle business. There are a lot of arguments and debates about the benefits of both. From the concepts of building businesses that grow the economy on a small or large scale, to entrepreneurs using their talents to build big products vs. build what they want, etc, etc. Every time these debates crop up, everyone has an opinion on the validity of what type a startup is, whether or not particular examples of people building startups in one of the models can execute on that model, or why a particular startup as an example is different than all other startups at executing on their model. It doesn’t seem to matter if the people debating are … Read entire article »
Philosopher as Management Consultant
While reading Plato’s Republic recently, I came across his now famous Cave Allegory. I remember this from an old philosophy class I took and after reading it, I found that the philosophy text books and instructor did not do the metaphor justice. There was a lot of contextual information from the entire book, the time period that Plato was in, and the influences on Plato that made reading the metaphor in its original book more informative and interesting to think about. The essence of the metaphor is that there are prisoners at the bottom of the cave and these prisoners can talk to each other, but cannot see each other. The only things they have to look at all their lives are the shadow reflections of items from higher up in … Read entire article »
Filed under: Seattle, seattlelunch20
