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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
The market’s influence on everyday life
As I have been getting better at trading and investing, I have been finding that I am doing things different in life and examining all decision making processes a little different. As I keep getting better and better and learn to trade different timeframes and asset classes, I continually am finding that what I am learning in the market is providing me insights into my own personal comfort level in life, how to evaluate other people, ideas, companies, news, politics, etc. The list just keeps going. Really everything that I used to know in life has been affected by my experiences over the last eight years of going from knowing nothing about the financial markets to doing a fair amount of investing and trading (and at least beating the returns … Read entire article »
Are we all working less?
That’s right, work less, good catchy title for a post about the job numbers released on Friday According to the calculations of our friend Jake over at EconomPic, the current average of working hours in the US is the lowest it has ever been! (well the lowest it has ever been since we’ve been keeping track anyway.) That’s actually kind of amazing if you think about it this means that if you take the US as a group and looked at how many hours we are working, we are working the least amount of hours then we did at any other period in tracked history. Look at Oct. 99 – we were working the most and of course we all know about the internet bubble that was happening at that time. … Read entire article »
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