The evening of May 2nd, I checked into the Hotel Vitale. The hotel sits right on the corner of Mission St. and Embarcadero St.–an amazing spot of San Francisco right near the Bay Bridge and the Ferry Building Marketplace.
View from Hotel Vitale of Bay Bridge at sunrise
Tags: Chip Conley, San Francisco
January 19th, around 7:30 am (EST), I woke up like any other day. Still half asleep trying to get my brain functioning, I pulled out my cell phone and opened Twitter. Scrolling the recent tweets, I stumbled upon Tim Ferriss’s tweet mentioning a new blog post. Intrigued by the title, I clicked and began reading. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Chip Conley, Emotional Equations, San Francisco, vulnerability
It was a real treat going to the epicenter of startups/technology/vc this past week. I had been to San Francisco in 2006 but I had a different outlook on life back then. Now 6 years later, I have the entrepreneur bug for creating businesses of lasting value (and of course they’ve got to be cloud based and automated 
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I arrived on a Tuesday night and got picked up by my good Bay Area friend, David. The following day (5/2/12) was the Startup Conference in Mountain View, headed up by Alain Raynaud. With a conference jam-packed with success/failure stories, pitches and tips, I had much to absorb. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Conference, Incubators., Pitching, San Francisco, Silicone Valley, Startups, The Startup Conference, VC
You ever get the feeling you want to deliver so much value to the world? That itch, that bug–that exciting feeling of creating something that other people will love? I kinda feel like that–and by kinda I mean very much so and all the time!
For those that have my same sentiments as above, you also like me are always searching and scouring your imagination for that revolutionary solution to a common problem. Although I’ve written out or at least thought many ideas were worth pursuing, I think we finally got one that has sticky potential. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Online Presence
Over sometime now, I started questioning why people are successful–I was looking more than the usual “they worked hard” answer. Now successful is vague, but in any endeavor–relationships, health, business, religion, etc– I think we can say there are people who are successful, who stand out and become examples for the masses. My question rephrased, what is at the core of those people who stand out?
Tags: vulnerability
One of the best videos I’ve seen in a while. Simon Sinek is a genius and seems to yet again, gracefully decode/state some of the biggest failures met by most. I previously saw a a TEDx Talk by Simon entitled, “How great leaders inspire action” where he takes a look into Apple’s marketing success (I highly recommend you watch it right after you watch the video below). The nuggets that Simon drops in the video below at the 99% event will make you re-evaluate of how we should view contribution. Without further ado, here’s: “If You Don’t Understand People, You Don’t Understand Business”: Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: 99%, Contribution, Video
The utility of the Internet has come along way. Portals and directories, such as Yahoo, used to be the dominate method for finding information on the web. Then Google came along and showed how every website could now be indexed in logical, intelligent (often gamed) way. Now with Facebook, we’re moving back into a portal except, one that is guided by our social circles: family, friends, acquaintances, business colleagues, college classmates, inspirations and paying advertisers. To be in a time in history when people promote their Facebook page over their website is something I couldn’t have imagined. So here we are. Facebook’s dominate presence is full in effect. And now Facebook releases Timeline: Read the rest of this entry »
The feeling of getting a new [brilliant] idea, which we might follow up with some sort of action, makes us feel great. The spark of passion pushes us to try to make some traction. In the beginning, it’s nearly brainless to work on our idea instead of part-taking in some other activity. However, if your experience is anything similar to mine, within a week your idea is put on the shelf–the same place all your other once new [brilliant] ideas reside. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Entrepreneurism, Napoleon Hill, Time
Too often than I’d like to count, I kick myself as I think “if only I would have done that earlier…” Today for instance, I finally called AT&T to complain about my shoddy modem that has been dropping signal (just as much as my iPhone) for about 3 months now. Everyday I can expect to lose Internet for 3-5 minutes about 5-10 times a day. After my pent up frustration hit the ceiling, I called their support. Less than 15 minutes later, problem resolved–they’re sending me a new modem (expect it in 3-5 business days). Something bugging me for 3 months was resolved in 15 minutes. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Procrastination, Proverb, Quote, Time
It’s not what you know, but who you know. If you think about any opportunity that you’ve been afforded, how did you achieve it? Unless you were randomly picked from a pile or you won based upon your works, it very likely you were granted your opportunity because someone knew you. Read the rest of this entry »
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