Come for the Ride!

Although most startup entrepreneurs are dedicated, motivated, and hard working – sometimes things just don’t get done.  It’s not your fault really… You are already wearing more hats than most people are willing to and when you have to do 5 or 6 jobs as one person, it can easily get distracting.

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At the Gang of 5 meeting yesterday, a few of us entrepreneurs gathered to further discuss the chatter that’s going around the Atlanta startup scene. During the conversation, a number of possible solutions were proposed to get something going and many seem like worthy efforts. (More on that later) However, I was surprised to find a post today by Paul Freet that talked about the Hollywood Startup Model which was also something we touched on during the meeting – did you have a spy on us Paul? Read more…

I’ve read a multitude of blogs out there in the last day about how people were incredibly disappointed in what was actually shown at the 2008 WWDC yesterday. Whereas I can understand the disappointment for things like dual cameras for conferencing on the phone, I also understand that most wireless networks do not yet have the infrastructure to handle this sort of bandwidth. Let’s say you start selling 5-10MM more iPhones around the world and these people start to take advantage of this feature on a daily basis, whereas in the US we might be able to ramp up the necessary bandwidth, I hardly believe Denmark, Malta, Peru or Madagascar could handle this out of the box. Out of the box, everything works is Apple’s bread and butter. They understand that people will suffer with a few less features for a user experience not plagued with slow of buggy features (the Windows Mobile Task Manager is a perfect example of the sort of hack Apple has a knack for avoiding).

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I received an email from MarketingProfs today that I just had to repost.  I think it hits on some key points that defines whether you are an entrepreneur/business person vs. a technician that is self employed.

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In my few years in the business world, I’ve found that most people I talk to about trendy businesses fall into one of two categories – the haters and the embracers.

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