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Leadership: A Different Way

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by Eric | Jan 19, 2011, 1:36pm EST

Leadership is a subject that many in the startup world care deeply about. A few years back I read a book by David McCullough called 1776. The book was a fascinating read of just how tenuous and challenging the life of Goerge Washington was during the American Revolutionary War. More serious than a startup can [...]

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Making a To Do List Actually Work

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by Eric | Feb 16, 2010, 8:21am EST

I’m not immune to taking a prominent seat on the procrastination bus.  As entrepreneurs, we all know that getting our work done, is life or death.  This morning I found an interesting article by Dave Lavinsky on a technique I personally had never used to work my lists.  I will now.

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Working With The Elite And What I Learned

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by Eric | Feb 5, 2010, 11:24am EST

I have had the pleasure to work with John Doerr at Kleiner and Ram Shriram of Sherpalo, corporate giants like John Mac, Vikram Pandit and others, and as I look back, I now realize that much of who I am today is a result of different traits, talents and abilities I have tried to inherit from [...]

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Disintermediation (My Favorite Word in Business)

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by Eric | Feb 2, 2010, 9:21am EST

When I started my career, I sought to kill the high prices of the full service stock brokers and bring common sense pricing to the masses.  On the road we changed an industry and in essence, birthed another.  Below is a small piece by Seth Godin regarding the publishing world and the inevitable change coming [...]

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Creating Legends

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by Eric | Feb 2, 2010, 9:04am EST

Below follows a post by Steve Blank.  I think it effectively shows the life of being in a startup and how the dynamics of recognition and pay tend to work.  Enjoy Entrepreneurs and the early startup team all need to be motivated by a shared vision, passion and desire to build a large company.  Yet [...]

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Mark Pincus of Zynga on Leadership Lessons Learned

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by Eric | Feb 1, 2010, 12:00pm EST

Great read from the New York Times: Q. What are the most important leadership lessons you’ve learned? A. If I was going all the way back, it would be playing on my school’s soccer team, because we were on the same team together, most of us for eight or nine years, and we were at a really [...]

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Why You Must Eat Your Own Internet Dogfood!

by Eric | Jan 29, 2010, 12:55pm EST

(Below follows an outstanding piece that I consider a must read for startups from Dave McClure.  Be advised: contains a bit of harsh language.) Haven’t really gotten on a rant in awhile… guess i’ve been doing a lot of travel lately, but now that i’m back in California for awhile, there’s something i’ve been meaning [...]

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