The Next 10,000 Hours

Month: May 2013

  • Aching for Something New

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    I had dinner last night with Chris Baggott, one of ExactTarget’s co-founders, and the founder of Compendium, and Bill McClosky, founder of eDataSource and Only Influencers.  The war stories of these two entrepreneurs from the digital marketing space as they took risks, built companies, and followed their passions was inspiring and humbling. Chris told a…

  • Conceptualizing the Tunnel and Pushing Through

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    Laurie (super star wife) and I were reading a little book called “Good Busy” this weekend.  The author, Julia O’Grady, introduced a concept that fit well into the experience of starting a company.  She shared that when people find themselves in unusually tough circumstances (death of a family member, struggling with an illness, etc.) that…

  • Extraverts: Talk Think Talk, Introverts: Think Talk Think

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    One of our investors and mentors, John Fahlberg, is a retired executive who’s built and managed several companies, and has held executive posts with Target.  Net: this guy’s got some time in the saddle. He does executive coaching these days to keep active, and we’ve been fortunate to have him run several sessions with our…