Gilt: Co-Founders Who Built Their Billion Dollar Company on Respect and Implicit Trust
Today I got to attend the CRAVE Seattle event which featured entrepreneur Alexandra Wilkis Wilson, co-founder of Gilt Groupe. The event was packed with 150 (mostly) women entrepreneurs. CRAVE founder Melody Biringer puts on amazing events and I’m thankful that she extended the invite out to me. Gilt Groupe – launched by Alexis, Alexandra, and […]
Sari Crevin: Leap From Corporate Cog to Successful Entrepreneur
Sari Crevin, CEO of Booginhead, shares her entrepreneurial journey of how she built up a successful $1M+ company at night and on weekends while working by day as an HR Manager in the XBOX division at Microsoft. Sari’s company, BooginHead, creates award winning, parent invented products for the Baby/Toddler industry. Sari was ranked #14 out […]
Cultivating Women Leaders in Seattle
I met Shandel Slaten, CEO of True Life Coaching, six years ago through the Entrepreneur Organization Seattle. Since then I have hired Shandel to help coach me with building my company and team. Shandel has been critical in helping me identify my own strengths, understand my communication style (or lack thereof in some cases, as […]
Great Things Are Created By People Who Didn’t Do It For Money
I was reading a blog post by Seth Godin “The story of money is not a straight line“. Read the article, as with all Godin blog posts, they are short and easy to digest. “Just about every great, brave or beautiful thing in our culture was created by someone who didn’t do it for money.” […]
Mobile Credit Card Terminals: Innerfence vs. Square
You carry your phone in your pocket – why not your credit card terminal? With advances in portability and user friendliness, businesses both large and small are losing the wires that tie them down and making the switch to mobile credit card terminals. San Francisco giant Square took on Redmond-based Innerfence. I own both the Square […]
Yarn Bombing – The Rage You’re Seeing Everywhere!
Wine Wednesday with Entrepreneur & Artist Suzanne Tidwell! Come meet and listen to Suzanne Tidwell who will be sharing her entrepreneurial journey. Suzanne first started “yarn bombing” trees in Sammamish back in December 2010 and since then her work has been on in display in Seattle Occidental Park, City of Redmond, Anderson Park, and even […]
Mobile Health’s Best: Nike FuelBand, Sleep Cycle, and Jawbone UP
I own both the Jawbone UP and the Nike Fuel Band. Being a geeky guy that likes data, I was quite interested in tracking sleep and exercise. When the Jawbone UP came out, I immediately got one. However, there are other options out there so I decided to write a review on the Nike FuelBand, […]
An Exercise to Help You Articulate Your Startup Idea: Ideation Bootcamp
Tonight Dave Parker (Founder Institute Seattle) put on an Ideation Bootcamp one of the exercises that we worked on was to be able to articulate your idea: Here’s what we worked on: Step 1: Articulate: I am developing __(a defined offering)__ to help __(a target audience)__ __(solve a problem)___ __(with secret sauce)__. Step 2: Evaluate: [listcheck] […]
Your Best Work Does Not Always Correlate To Your Best Outcome – David Bluhm
I was having a conversation tonight at the NWEN / Founder Institute Ideation Bootcamp with David Bluhm, CEO of Z2Live and he made a comment “Your Best Work Does Not Always Correlate To Your Best Outcome”. This really stuck out to me of all the things that we talked about. It’s one of those things that has me […]
Building a Business to Enjoy or Built to Flip?
I was reading an article titled “The Other 99% of Entrepreneurs“. The article states: Over 99% of entrepreneurs who seek funding get rejected. Yet, the entire world is focused on the 1% that is “fundable.” So much focus and energy is put into companies that get funded. It’s sexy to have tons of money from VC’s, […]