When I was in college and working on my first startup, it was all about the plan. You need a business plan, you need financial projections, you need to know where you’ll be in 5 years, so on and so forth. Where did all that planning really get me? Nowhere.
Planning is all good and great when you’re doing it, feels valuable, but the fact of the matter is, nothing ever turns out quite like you expected it to, no matter how much you plan, which is truly why planning is …

Why do we need to be experts? Apparently we need to focus on one thing and become great at it because if we spend too much time on everything then we’ll never reach this level of specialty in anything. And being an expert in your field means everything nowadays… Malcolm Gladwell in Outliers tells us that it takes approximately 10,000 hours to achieve this level of expertise that is so often sought after.
Ok, so we focus in one area, we become experts and we know our field inside out, right? …

One of my absolute favorite resources for inspiration and ideas are TED talks. If you don’t know already, TED stands for technology, entertainment, and design and was founded 25 years ago. Essentially TED is a conference that is invite only, and serves as a platform for the top minds in the world to gather in a single place and share their ideas. Now you find thousands of TED talks online for everyone’s viewing pleasure at TED.com and some of my favorites here!
At the end of 2009, we here in Dar …

Video lecture from David Heinemeier Hansson about startups, restraints, education, and success. Brought to you by Stanford’s Entrepreneurship Corner.

Open source has taken the world by storm, especially in the software market as we see more and more solutions everyday. Although currently the focus is software, the open source model is one that we will no doubt see in all aspects of life in the near future. One great example is Cameron Sinclair and his open source Architecture for Humanity project, which I think is a great example of the open source model in non-profit organizations. Don’t be suprised to see similar models being employed in the near future.
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