Startup Advice: A State of Mind

(Please take the time to watch the video.  Trust me, Raul Midon is amazing!)
Most entrepreneurs focus on the cash flow, team, market, and product, but neglect one of the most important factors in the success of the startup - morale.  Morale is the thing that keeps you working at 2am in the morning; morale is [...]

How to keep your girlfriend happy when you’re an entrepreneur

Girlfriends are hard to keep happy no matter what.  As a young entrepreneur with very little income, it’s even harder to keep the boss happy.
Kim and I got into one of our worsts fights last week.  I don’t even know what started it; all I know is that it was the first time I felt [...]

Expedition 206 - What does happiness mean to the world?

If you had the opportunity to find happiness in every region of the world, would you do it?  I would too
My good friends from around the world are competing for the opportunity to do just that.  The opportunity is called Expedition 206, where the winning team will travel to 206 countries in [...]

True happiness or Settling for less?

I spent all of last week with people from Spain, Belgium, Denmark, Australia, and many other regions of the world.  Each one was a world traveler, film maker, and an amazing creative mind that completely blew away my artistic skill set.
To be perfectly honest, I was at first intimated to be in their presence.  I [...]

Down With Entrepreneurship’s Glamour

This is a guest post by my good friend Carlos Miceli who blogs at Owl Sparks.

We are a “hype” culture.
Every time some topic gets some buzz going on, we start associating it with as many stories, movies, and anecdotes as possible.
Why? Because it sells. It makes the topic recyclable.
There’s one worrying consequence because of this: [...]

Why I can’t do what I’m passionate about

Photo by Cynthia Lou
My friends are living their passions.  They’re living location independently in Thailand, New Zealand, and Italy, they’ve quit their full-time and become life coaches, and many have decided to pursue a startup company and try to build an empire.
I feel it’s great that we’re encouraging people to pursue their passions.  It would [...]