Sports, Technology, Startup, and Entrepreneurship thoughts
Category : Deals, General, Social Media, Technology
If you are looking for good deals on software and are getting your startup off the ground, you have to sign up at Appsumo.com. AppSumo partners with people who make the coolest apps out there to offer you exclusive price deals on their products. Noah Kagan, the founder of the site has worked at successful companies like Facebook and Mint. Appsumo has saved me plenty of time and money…it is great.
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Category : General, Random, Startups, Technology
NACS Conference is a great event to go to if you are looking to partner with Brands/CPG products that are found in convenient and specialty stores. NACS (National Association of Convenient Stores) was held at the beginning of October with over 300 companies in attendance from Pepsi to Subway. Interesting comment made by numerous executives at the event was the concept of “shaking hands,” as you can assume you will shake over 50 hands at a large event. They referenced Michael Arrington, who blogs at Uncrunched and founded Techcrunch. He has blogged about shaking hands on Techcrunch here, http://techcrunch.com/2009/05/09/hand-shaking-is-so-medieval-lets-end-it/ and http://techcrunch.com/2009/07/18/handshake-horror-the-awareness-spreads/. I’m sure people think about it when they meet people..I am indifferent..fist bump or hand shake..but how many people would keep a bottle of Purell in their pocket?
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Category : Entrepreneurship, General, Social Media, Startups
Social Media has become a part of most people’s daily life and business:, be it facebook, twitter, myspace, etc… I can only imagine how life would have been 10 years ago with these tools. There would have been a lot more distractions in the classroom and outside with the way social media can catch fire with a simple “tweet,” when I was still in school. The days of communicating long-distance with friends and family have changed dramatically. Growing up one could only write letters sent by snail-mail to friends and family; soon we were exchanging emails and communicating over instant messenger. Now we have our entire phone book stored in our cell phone, contacts accessible at any moment; we can communicate through social media such as Facebook, Twitter and Myspace. It amazes these communication channels have been adopted by businesses as they try to get consumer’s attention. The days of reading newspapers and clipping coupons has quickly changed into downloading coupons on your iPad, buying a groupon or visiting a deals-aggregating site such as fatwallet.com. The different social media channels have opened up many new ways to communicate with friends and even strangers/celebrities (through twitter). Finding the most effective strategy all depends on the end goal/purpose; I’ve been able to connect with people and lead to discussion for closing business development deals. Social media has been an effective channel for me as it continues to evolve and I can’t wait for the next new wave of technology that will make communicating and doing businesses even easier.
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Sunday night, Game 5 the Celtics had an epic win over the Los Angeles Lakers in Boston. Did anyone expect the series to be 3-2..Boston up? Celtics have been playing out of their mind. The Big Three (Kevin Garnett, Ray Allen, Paul Pierce) should be the old three, but the up and coming Rajon Rondo has been the catalyst to the resurgence back to one game from holding up the Championship trophy. Rondo has been throwing dimes, pick pocketing players hundos into his back pocket, and cleaning up rebounds that has made Tom Brady salvating courtside just like Big Baby Drooling ala Game 4. Lakers have been 2-9 in the finals against the Celtics. An amazing statistic, but the Lakers are the team to beat. They have been to the finals three straight years and resemble (Zenmaster) Coach Phil Jackson’s Chicago Bulls of the late 90s, Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen, and Dennis Rodman. They have an all time great in Kobe that even a California forest fire couldn’t put out with 20 plus points in the third quarter. He has been wanting this title I think more than seeing the oil spilled clean up in the Gulf. As history goes, a one man team in sports or business, can’t reach the top without having his henchman ala Gasol, Odom, Artest to fall back on to complete the mission. Kobe has been at his best this year especially with more game winners than you can count on one hand. He plays great under pressure and once again the Laker Nation is hoping they can be riding high with their Laker flags on top of their cars. This series has brought great competition that will see a champion who won’t settle for anything less than playing basketball in Obama’s backyard and sipping on a nice cold beer.
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Category : Entrepreneurship, General
Hey everyone, this is my first blog post of many to come. I wanted to share my thoughts on startups, tech, sports, anything interesting popping up on the web and bring my persepective As an entrepreneur having family members who have started businesses that have been successful, it has made me thirsty to make my imprint on the business market as well. Running your own business/being part of a startup goes through its trial and tribulations with high risk/high reward.
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