Archive for October, 2011

Quality vs Quantity

Monday, October 24th, 2011

For a long time I was firmly on the side of quantity when it came to business products.  Get as much stuff out there as quickly as possible to test different ideas and markets.  The more stuff I could get out there the less risk there was that I would be devastated if one of them didn’t [...]

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Identifying Opportunities

Wednesday, October 12th, 2011

Recently a potentially huge opportunity landed in my lap.  The most interesting thing about it isn’t that I was able to see the opportunity and was in a position to seize it, it is that other people not only didn’t take the same opportunity when it was presented to them, but they ran in the [...]

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Learning By Doing

Tuesday, October 4th, 2011

Practical experience is without a doubt the best way to learn something.  Since the beginning of the year I have been trying to DO as much as could possibly be done by one person.  This year I started my company Halotis Inc.  That was an interesting experience – to meet and talk with an accountant, [...]

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