The only way to fail is to not try

Michael Jordan, considered the best basketball player of all time and “the guy” that you want to have the ball in his hands at the end of a close game, said this about failure: I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take…

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So I just got this in the mail…

Crazy coincidence that I blogged this morning about my Hootsuite love and how they made the back of my laptop, sticker-style, and then this afternoon I get a package from Hootsuite with a ton of #badass schwag.  Check this out: shirts, buttons, stickers and koozies.  Hootsuite, have you been reading my diary or something?

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Spend a day with a startup

I talk a lot about entrepreneurship, passion, and being inspired.  And recently I wrote about how to be an entrepreneur with a job.  In fact, if you look at my Mantras page, you’ll see a lot of these topics. One of the reasons I write about this stuff is because I have the great opportunity…

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Mobile Startups to Watch

If you haven’t had a chance to check out this report that Engauge compiled, I recommend you flip through it.  We talk about some really interesting startups in the mobile space, specifically Scoutmob, Kiip, Yobongo, BOKU, and Immersive Labs.  Check it out and pass it along!

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Today, David IS Goliath -OR- Big is the enemy of innovation

Does size matter?  Yes, but not the way you think.  #sickos If you want to survive, you have to innovate.  If you want to innovate, you have to think…small. Small teams.  Small life cycles.  Small memories of past mistakes.  Small budgets to test new things with.  Small meetings.  Small egos.  Small tolerance for a lack…

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