My entrepreneurial journey has come to an end, and though I felt some guilt about it at first, the truth is, I’m relieved.
To Entrepreneur or Not to Entrepreneur
Posted on Oct - 26 - 2010
Categories: Career & Professional, Entrepreneurs, Family, Lessons & Epiphanies
Don’t Play the Work-Life Waiting Game
Posted on Feb - 22 - 2010
Tim Berry has a recent post on MyVenturePad that is highly worth reading. He takes issue with a VentureBeat post that essentially recommends to entrepreneurs that they sacrifice their life until they get their business successfully built. Tim hits the nail on the head right out of the gate: the absurdity of that recommendation is [ Read More ]
Categories: Entrepreneurs
What Makes Innovation?
Posted on Feb - 16 - 2010
CNN recently reported that researchers from Harvard Business School, Insead and Brigham Young University have just completed a six-year study of more than 3,000 executives and 500 innovative entrepreneurs, and say they have identified five skills that drive innovation: Associating: The ability to connect seemingly unrelated questions, problems or ideas from different fields. Questioning: Innovators [ Read More ]
Categories: Entrepreneurs
Necessity is the Mother of Invention
Posted on Feb - 05 - 2010
CNNMoney.com published an article on this week’s government report that states, over the past six months, the “22 banks that got the most help from the Treasury’s bailout programs cut their small business loan balances by a collective $10.5 billion.” The report goes on to highlight that over the past six months that TARP recipients [ Read More ]
Categories: Entrepreneurs
A Pragmatic New Year
Posted on Jan - 17 - 2010
Well, I can’t say that I’m sorry to have seen 2009 go. Personally and professionally, it was one hell of a rough year. On the other hand, it did bring with it some changes that — despite fighting pretty voraciously at first — have ultimately proven to be profoundly valuable. The biggest and most obvious [ Read More ]
Categories: Entrepreneurs
My Favorite Bloggers
Posted on Dec - 24 - 2009
As someone who consumes most of her daily doses of new information through the blogosphere (as opposed to traditional media), there are different bloggers I read for different reasons. As I’ve been trying to streamline my process for writing more (and better), myself, I’ve been thinking more and more about what I specifically get out [ Read More ]
Categories: Leaders
There is No Strategy if You Don’t Manage Your Team
Posted on Jul - 21 - 2009
Last week I wrote an opening rant about “strategists.” In the comments that ensued, I am now inspired to clarify what I mean while I continue to write this series. I am not talking about consultants who are hired to help hone and build out a strategic vision for an organization; nor am I talking [ Read More ]
Categories: Leaders, Lessons & Epiphanies, Mentors
Where Are You Leading?
Posted on Jun - 30 - 2009
I’ve had an interesting few weeks. My husband and I have been dealing with a lot of things at home, hence my absence from blogging for much of the past month, and I have started a new project with the New Media (a.k.a. “web”) team at KXAN-TV here in Austin. Between getting settled into the [ Read More ]
To Say Agile, Or Not to Say Agile… That is the Question
Posted on May - 06 - 2009
I had an interesting conversation yesterday after I gave a presentation. I was talking about the necessary functions — particularly when it comes to communications, documentation, change management and entry/exit criteria — of project management in an Agile development process. The “interesting” conversation I had afterward was because one of the attendees (in a private [ Read More ]
Categories: Career & Professional, Leaders
20/20 Hindsight – Transitioning a Services Company to a Product Company
Posted on Apr - 27 - 2009
This is something I’ve been thinking about more and more recently. The fact that we started off as a services company is what allowed us to get started and to avoid having to rely on outside funding. But it was transitioning to a product company that allowed us to grow and scale, and to ultimately [ Read More ]
Categories: Entrepreneurs, Leaders, Lessons & Epiphanies, Mentors
20/20 Hindsight – How Early Career Choices Can Set the Stage
Posted on Apr - 22 - 2009
I had a couple of discussions this week that got me thinking back to the early days of my career. Aside from leaving me feeling older than I care to think about, it did spark a pleasant memory or two that I’ve been mulling over since. Specifically, I’ve been thinking about how early career choices [ Read More ]
Categories: Career & Professional, Entrepreneurs, Leaders, Lessons & Epiphanies, Mentors
Why Agile Isn't Just for Development
Posted on Apr - 21 - 2009
It’s been years since the evangelism for Agile development started truly gaining momentum. Super sexy buzzphrases phrases like “reduce time to market,” “improved ROI,” and “lower development costs” have all been invoked to support the case for adopting an Agile methodology over the old-school Waterfall approach. The fact is, most experienced professionals have lived through [ Read More ]
Categories: Career & Professional, Entrepreneurs, Leaders, Lessons & Epiphanies