Connecting the dots of life and business

We successfully filled a tech position a month ago and looking back on that process, I now see what top traits we MUST have in any employee.  I know people talk about experience, education and training, but there’s more to sort through with quality candidates than what’s on the resume. Since we’re now actively seeking sales [...]

Jason Calacanis, CEO of Mahalo is quite a polarizing individual. To most web folks, It’s no secret there are those that really don’t like him and yet others worship his every… tweet. I’ve always been quite ambivalent about him personally, but after listening to his new podcast, This Week in Startups I have to admit [...]

Many people attend conferences to grow their business and at SXSW it seems folks try REALLY hard to get noticed. Everyone references Twitter’s explosion in 2007, but I also remember Colin and Rob from Viddler as a 2007 memorable company. Their approach was pretty simple… they both wore Viddler t-shirts every day (I assume it [...]

I spent a good bit of my March in Las Vegas (LeadsCon) and Austin (SXSW) at conferences (which I paid for) and loved sharing startup stories with fellow entrepreneurs (Hint: everyone wants to tell their startup stories). Upon my return, I stopped by the bank and after reviewing my trip, she said, “You entrepreneur guys [...]

Flickr credit: Basegreen After several months of development, Kevin and I have launched our new business, MoneyPath.  If you’re not aware of this new venture, read this post.  We are still adding more banks (starting in the Louisville, KY region) to our lender network, but we’ve started accepting loans and banks will start bidding on [...]

The most common word in the startup vernacular to describe the stage of financing is its round. I told Andy Swan Tuesday, I view startup careers more like rounds in a boxing match with each one being a new business. In a professional boxing match, a round is three minutes long. In my startup life, [...]