Startup Lessons Learned- The Lean Approach My workplace (not my startup) has been pushing a “lean” environment for five years, so I am not new the “lean” principle. I was just beginning to think about LivestockCity when Eric Ries wrote his book about Lean Startups. Truthfully, I am not sure I was a fan of the lean concept back then for a variety of reasons, so I had no interest
November 2nd, 2015
The Nontraditional Startup Entrepreneur – Part II
In Part I, I discussed my searching of what to do in life as it pertains to a career and discovering that I am happiest when pursuing entrepreneurial projects much more that a steady high paying but mundane career. The problem with that is my discovery happened later in life after marriage and children and “settling down”, hence making me a nontraditional startup entrepreneur by today’s standards. In this follow
October 21st, 2015
The Nontraditional Startup Entrepreneur – Part 1
(Note: Originally Posted on Medium.com) The Nontraditional Startup Entrepreneur – Part 1 I am a member of “Generation X”, defined by Google as “the generation born after that of the baby boomers (roughly from the early 1960s to mid 1970s), often perceived to be disaffected and directionless.” It’s a stereotype that many GenX’ers have or had no goals, no direction, no clue what we want to do in life, and actually,
May 22nd, 2015
Lessons Learned From Building A Startup.
Building a startup is not an easy task. After “The Social Network” movie came out, many people, especially the college age population, were deeply inspired to also enter the world of startups (that’s another blog post to be written later), thinking it will be as simple as the movie made it seem. But trust me, it isn’t, and statistically, nearly all startups will wind up failing. But there are things