Entrepreneurs: Being happy with your success

I had lunch yesterday with a business partner (we’ll call him Scott) and we got to discussing our businesses and how they are doing and all that ‘entrepreneurial type’ discussion. He owns a small 6-person audit firm and works mainly in the Texas region. So, in our discussion, I asked him how much [...]

My latest gadget – The Pulse Smartpen

I’ve always struggled with the ability to capture a moment, a college class, a presentation, a meeting. There is often no pattern, reasoning, or order behind note-taking abilities. Mind mapping, bullet points, verbatim, argh! Anyway, point being, I have always had a hard time trying to find just the right way to take [...]

Ben Zander & the Art of Possibility

Recently, I joined an organization called EO (Entrepreneurs Organization) to be able to connect and relate with entrepreneurs with similar business and personal issues. It’s a great group and they pride themselves, especially the Dallas chapter, on providing the best experience and value for all their events and last night was no exception. [...]

Entrepreneurs: Lifestyle or High Growth? Why not both?

I just started a book on my Kindle recently about learning better ways of finance for entrepreneurs. (Book details here.) One of the things the authors address right at the beginning is the differences between a lifestyle entrepreneur and a high growth entrepreneur.  Let me break those definitions down for those not familiar:

Lifestyle – Someone [...]

The Genesis of Purpose – How the TIE Principles started.

As many of you know, we run a banking community site called Banktastic.com and have for a little over a year now. It has been a fun experience. Very difficult to predict, at times, but very fun nevertheless and our community is great. Over the past few months I felt like, despite [...]

A company with a purpose

At least once a year I like to go through a what I’m calling a ‘State of the company‘ review that answers questions as if we are starting this company from anew. It should be noted that what I try to avoid is being generic. Avoiding those scenarios like meaningless, adjective-heavy mission statements and [...]

A CEO’s salary measures success?

This weekend I was watching some of the Techcrunch50 video coverage and came across some interesting discussion between Peter Thiel and Mike Arrington. They batted around some different topics but one I found particularly interesting was the discussion of a startup Theil is invested in that is tracking startups metrics for VCs (follow that?) [...]