Seth’s Blog: Going to meetings A great posting about Vendor Love from Seth Godin! (tags: Entrepreneur)
Archives / March, 2006
Book short: Myers-Briggs Redux
Book short: Myers-Briggs Redux Instinct: Tapping Your Entrepreneurial DNA to Achieve Your Business Goals, by Tom Harrison of Omnicom, is an ok book, although I wouldn’t rush out to buy it tomorrow. The author talks about five broad aspects of our personalities that influence how we operate in a business setting: Openness to Experience, Conscientiousness, Extroversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism. These traits are remarkably similar to those in the popular Myers-Briggs Type Indicator that so many executives have taken over the years. It’s not just that you want to be high, high, high, high, and low in the Big 5. Harrison asserts that successful entrepreneurs need a balance of openness and conscientiousness in order to be receptive to new ideas, but…
links for 2006-03-28
Feld Thoughts Brad has a good posting today about entrepreneur accountability — along the lines of my “Forecast Early and Often” theme. — /2005/11/notsocounter_cl.html (tags: VC Entrepreneur)
Million Dollar Baby
Million Dollar Baby I had one of those aha moments today while looking over some insurance numbers with Rob Mattes, our CFO (and a gentleman and a scholar). I know it’s dangerous to think about dollars in the aggregate across years, but I’m pretty sure that by the end of this calendar year, we will have spent close to $1 million on insurance over the course of the 7 years we’ve been in business at Return Path. I think I gagged when I realized that. I mean, one million dollars? Really? How is that possible? And how many other ways would I have rather spent that million dollars? Well, it all adds up — we have coverage for, among other…
A New Member of the Internet Axis of Evil
A New Member of the Internet Axis of Evil Fred has written a series of postings over the years about the Internet Axis of Evil, roughly in order here, here, here, here, and here (I’m sure I missed some). The basis of the postings is great — that, as Fred says: There’s a downside to an open network. It’s the same downside that exists in an open society. There are a lot of nuts out there who want to do bad things (the evildoers as George W Bush calls them). And we all have to spend a lot of time and money making sure that we are protected from them. It’s a huge burden on an open network and an…
A Study In Contrast
A Study In Contrast We just visited India for a great two weeks of vacation (with one quick business meeting thrown in for good measure). The most striking part of the country was its seamless transition between old and new. Bumpy dirt roads and new, gleaming highways give way to each other at random intervals. Streets in many cities and most smaller towns are filled with trucks fighting for space with cows, oxen, camels, elephants, dogs, and donkeys. Ads for cell phones and new Internet cafes are mixed in with storefronts prominently advertising land line phones, since almost no one in outlying areas can afford or has electricity to power an in-home phone. Anyway, if you’re up for a quick…