Virgin Business

Aug 14, 2008 | categories: Books, Entrepreneurship

After some time off, some vacation, and with an amazingly cute new born baby daughter, I'm back online.

During this off-time and especially on my last trip to Europe, I've read a few books - some were very interesting while others were boring to death. Don't worry, I won't tell you about the latter. Among the great ones was the autobiography of Sir Richard Branson (click on the picture for more details and reviews). I bought the hard copy version at the airport thinking that it will be a good air traveling book, meaning, funny and with no real reason to activate any gray cells.

Boy, was I wrong.

The book is indeed very funny and smart, but it also brings invaluable insights as of how to do business out of passion and against all of the regular, conservative business assumptions. It's a book that shows that you can and should bring your own character into your business, and that a hunch is sometimes worth much more than complicated numbers analysis. It also shows you that sometimes you will be wrong and that it is not only ok, but that you can seriously grow out of these mistakes.
I won't be a spoiler so I'll just write that if you are an entrepreneur, either in practice or at heart, and you seek real-life experience inspiration, which is written from the heart, you must grab a copy of this book now.

Code-Chef Needed

Mar 11, 2008 | categories: Startups

Big_logoA quick note for all of you developers out there - KitchenBug, a startup where I'm siting on the advisory-board, is hiring. More details can be found on the KitchenBlog.

Free

Feb 28, 2008 | categories: Strategies

Hello friends,

Sorry for being offline for a while - I am working on several new stuff, including leveraging the concept of my blog, so stay tuned.

In the meanwhile, I wanted to share with you a post by Chris Anderson, Wired editor in chief, that I find important, and that I believe that it represents the main trend in business models for the upcoming year - Free: http://tinyurl.com/2okqbk

I would love getting your comments - do you believe that every internet only product should be free?

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