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I’m a mentor and investor in CapitalFactory, a seed-stage startup mentorship program in Austin, TX. Each year we pick 5 companies to participate in a 10-week summer program which includes:

20 real mentors Twenty entrepreneurs who have actually been in your shoes — creating companies from scratch, growing to millions in revenue, and often selling them. No posers, no one who was “there for the ride.” Here’s the list; see for yourself. You’ll get both one-on-one time and weekly group meetings. $20,000 in cash You can spend it however you want — quit your day job, buy some ads, license technology, ..read more

I’m sick of being admonished that success is predicated on spending the next 10,000 hours of our lives becoming “an expert.”

I’m sick of hearing about how I should be molding my life in the image of Michael Phelps or Albert Einstein, because the only thing that separates me from genius is identifying my strengths and working really really hard.

I’m calling bullshit.

We’re so busy trying to make ourselves into outliers that we’re forgetting about what’s important.

Penelope Trunk pushed me over the edge when she wrote that for the last two years she’s been schlepping around a Harvard Business Review article called “The ..read more

Taking a short break, which I’m going to do now.

Fulfilling my personal blog challenge to write more often. Not quite every two days, but pretty close.

Reading a book called The Happiness Project, which came out of a blog.

Being a “satisficer” and not a “maximizer” (see tip #7 in the above blog post, 10 tips for being happier).

Breaking down barriers to help customers get heard in corporate Canada.

See you in March.

The startup community over at Answers OnStartups has really taken off! Dharmesh and I started it just a few months ago and it’s already helped thousands of people. And vice-versa: For every question I’ve answered, there’s another where I’ve learned something too.

It’s a total blast — you should come check it out.  It’s like being in a room with 200 people in various stages of doing startups, all eager to listen to your problems and questions and ready with experience and advice.

Wait no, it’s not like that, it is that!

Actually it’s 2,000 people, with about 200 active daily. So you get a lot of ..read more

There are so many things. Where to begin?

– Companies that make recurring billing errors. Instead of straightening out the mess, they crack down on customers who don’t pay.

– Investment professionals who push risky portfolios on clients, based on false information on their account application forms. Later, they deny blame when the client complains about unsuitable investment recommendations.

– Lawyers who try to collect money by harassing someone with the same name as the person they’re chasing.

You want to get angry too? Just read the stories posted here.