http://www.entrepreneur2be.com How I will have become a successful entrepreneur. Wed, 04 Jun 2008 04:05:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [Pic by atomicjeep] I don't like school. I don't like going to school. I don't like the things we do there nor the way we do them. I think that schools are fundamentally wrong in the approach to teaching students how to be successful. There were specific reasons and needs that led ... http://www.entrepreneur2be.com/2008/06/03/why-the-educational-system-is-not-in-place/ I have a friend of mine who's blog is named "Live life in shuffle mode." I will take this metaphor and extend it to my life - my life is on Pause. Last 4 weeks have been really nuts. We worked really hard to launch feelgood. Then another 2 weeks ... http://www.entrepreneur2be.com/2008/04/07/life-on-pause/ [Pic by mysza831] Just by reading TechCrunch every day you can't help but wonder, "How the hell are there that many companies getting funded?" And that is just the tiny bit that is mentioned on TC. I shared that observation with my friend Alek, who jokingly (or not quite so) answered, ... http://www.entrepreneur2be.com/2008/03/03/reflection-why-there-will-never-be-a-startup-bubble-bust/ When I started this blog I set off to create a full story of my entrepreneurial struggle. I have been working on it mostly implicitly by writing out my thoughts and keeping up book reviews with what I read. I feel though that an explicit update is needed every now ... http://www.entrepreneur2be.com/2008/02/28/experience-the-down-moments-of-entrepreneurship/ Tennis is pretty much like any other sport - how good you are depends not only on accuracy and strength but also on the variety of tricks you can pull in different situations. Wider the variety of shots you can perform, the higher the probability you will maximize efficiency by ... http://www.entrepreneur2be.com/2008/02/20/reflections-exploration-of-territory-for-efficiency-of-startups/ Founders At Work interviews by Jessica Livingston ISBN-13: 978-1590597149 Lately, while reading, I've been underlining sentences and passages that are worth thinking about, sharing, or just rereading. I mark their position in a book by stickers. I don't have to tell you how many things you can learn in this book - my ... http://www.entrepreneur2be.com/2008/02/13/book-founders-at-work/ As my last semester advances I find myself involved in more and more group projects. 3 of my classes have long term group projects. In addition, I am a participant in the Merrill Lynch competition where 4 of us communicate on a daily basis and meet weekly. I am getting ... http://www.entrepreneur2be.com/2008/02/11/idea-meeting-4-four/ Burn Rate: How I Survived the Gold Rush Years on the Internet by Michael Wolff ISBN-10: 0684856212 Though I knew generally what burn rate meant, I wasn't aware of its implications. So I accepted this Amazon recommendation when I was researching for startup books. The book talks of how the owner of a media ... http://www.entrepreneur2be.com/2008/02/09/bookburn-rate/ My airport extreme died few days ago. I restarted it a billion times, restarted the cable modem too. I had the weirdest problem - one computer gets the real IP and all others get distributed ones that start with 10.0.1.x and they don't work. After tweaks, changes in name, hard ... http://www.entrepreneur2be.com/2008/02/06/idea-consumer-products-troubleshooting-by-crowdsourced-flowcharts/ I just don't understand how our civilizations are thousands of years old and yet some things in our lives that are so obviously inescapable have so many flaws and opportunity for improvement. Slightly awkward and amusing but quite relevant is the topic of public restrooms. I am not a freak ... http://www.entrepreneur2be.com/2008/02/05/reflections-toiletry/