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Pitchcrawl 3.0- San Jose

Pitchcrawl 3.0 in Downtown San Jose March 20th

Ah, a lovely new year.  2012 is shaping up nicely.  And so is the awesome serendipity in the air.

If you’ve been to Pitchcrawl before or have heard of it, you know it’s a ton of fun and full of interesting and relevant people.

Here at Dishcrawl, our philosophy is [...]

The Art of Awesome and Effective Twitter Use for Business

Hey there!  I wrote this for our Dishcrawl Ambassadors and wanted to share the love with the rest of the world.

So, let’s get down to business.  Twitter.  To get started with Twitter, go ahead and go here.  It’s a blog post I wrote awhile ago, but will give you a general idea of how to setup [...]

Pitchcrawl- Success, Failure, and Iteration

The Art of Investor Dating and Fail Points

Looking for investors is very similar to dating.  You run around in circles in hopes of finding the “one”.

Just like dating, it’s in your best interest to use your personal network to be introduced to the right people.  But, if you want to get more proactive about it, [...]

15 Minutes of Focus- Do You Believe?

If you seek glory, you are looking for the wrong thing.  Especially in startup.

It’s not in the glory of victory that you find yourself.  It’s the times of darkness.  It’s through the trials and on that last mile where you build your character and become who you are.

That’s why I love the times of hardness. [...]

15 Minutes of Focus- Attitude

My 15 minute brain dumps daily- a process I’m adopting after talking to Patricia of Lawless Coach.  15 minutes of focus daily can do wonders. Enjoy mine. .

Still doing these 15 minute brain dumps.  Because I want to, not because I have to (although that statement is to remind myself to have a [...]

15 Minutes of Focus- The Sweet Feeling of Success

My 15 minute brain dumps daily- a process I’m adopting after talking to Patricia of Lawless Coach.  15 minutes of focus daily can do wonders.  Enjoy mine. 

So, it’s almost 3am.  I was rather overwhelmed about 12 hours ago.  It was intense.  Blog post on it here.

I’m back from the Dishcrawl Oakland launch (pic of ribbon cutting below) [...]

15 Minutes of Focus- Overwhelmed?

My 15 minute brain dumps daily- a process I’m adopting after talking to Patricia of Lawless Coach.  15 minutes of focus daily can do wonders.  Enjoy mine. 

WOW.  Wow wow wow.  It’s been 3 days since a brain dump and WOW.  Things have been moving at lightening speed and I’m trying to do 10 million things at [...]

How Loving My Body Changed My Mental Health

Startup.  You work a lot.  And you push yourself (mentally and physically) to the limit.  Those who have not done a startup before don’t understand the physically part, because how much is it to sit at a computer all day working on the internets, right?

Try gluing yourself to the computer for one day, and pushing [...]

15 Minutes of Focus- Prioritizing

Priorities

10 million things happen in startup. 10 million AND ONE to be exact.

Fucking hell.

Don’t get bogged down though.  Everything you do, you need to ask yourself- does this align with my daily, weekly, and monthly goals?  Where is my priority?

This applies to meetings, emails, action items, ANYTHING.

Prioritize.  Without priority, wheels keep spinning, and nothing gets [...]

15 Minutes of Focus- Centering Yourself & Navigation

My 15 minute brain dumps daily- a process I’m adopting after talking to Patricia of Lawless Coach.  15 minutes of focus daily can do wonders.  Enjoy mine.

Centering Yourself

Where do you center yourself?  How do you not run around like a chicken with your head cut off?  Where is the center of your focus?

Patricia [...]