Blogging requires of a huge commitment and every company or entrepreneur should ask him/herself a series of questions before diving into the so popular blogosphere. So let me see if I can stay awake a little longer and articulate some of these basic questions…
More posts with numbers in the title.
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Listen to me. Do NOT enter social media until you know what you want to get out of it. Period. If you don’t know what “success” is for you, then you’re not ready to start yet. It also means you should cut back on your blog reading.
Leg 1 complete.
I can’t believe it is only 10pm right now. The work day plus 4 1/2 hours driving makes for a really long day.
I bolted from work by 3:30 and was on the road shortly after.
Almost on the Road!
It was a crazy week. As if thursday I and nothing packed, washed, or ready for my trip on Friday. I didn’t even have valid tags in my car. All of my washing, packing, charging of electronics and list making were done by midnight/1 am. Friday morning I got an oil change, and got replacement tags for my car.
Only a day of work between me and almost 2000 miles to Vermont.
Social media in 5 minutes or less with a co-creator of Reddit. It was a very cool example of the internet taking hold of an organization’s goal, for it own purposes, and by side effect accomplishing the organization’s goal. Check it out an interesting TED talk.
A start-up I co-founded with another UMM grad and 3rd grade teacher, Matt Hardy, was featured on Twin Cities Business Magazine’s Start Me Up blog. Check it out.
Lessons on standing out. Excellent examples: sliced break, soy milk, including great failed projects. This really builds on the Minnebar talk: Inspiring Passionate Users;what can I do to focus on the 1% of user base that are the opinion makers.
Quotes:
“We’re all in the fashion business now”
“Safe is risky”
“Remarkable” is the key work, it isn’t neat, it is remarkable, worth making a remark about.
Arising from our unsuccessful performance in the start up funding contest at MinneBar, we came to the attention of a writer for Tech.MN a technology/entrepreneurship news site. It is our first local story and I’m quite excited to see if leads to more conversations.
