How to build a $100 million+ company: Mark Moses
Today I spent half my day at an Entrepreneur Organization (EO Seattle) event. Mark Moses was the speaker. Mark spends the majority of his time working one on one with CEO’s and organizations helping them with strategies to grow their business, grow revenue and increase profits. He knows what makes ordinary people do extraordinary things. […]
The Anti-Creativity Checklist
My Anti-Creativity Checklist from Youngme Moon on Vimeo. I was reading the Harvard Business Review and stumbled into this video about “The Anti-Creativity Checklist“. I watched this video and loved it, so I wanted to embed it over here on the thinkspace blog. Everywhere I look, I see companies with imagination, innovation, and out-of-box thinking. […]
Danielle Bartoletti our new team member!
I’m delighted to introduce Danielle Bartoletti to our thinkspace Community. Danielle is a Coug. (yes, Dawgs and Cougs can co-exist on the same team). Danielle went to WSU and has BA in Sociology with a concentration in Business and Economics. My personal feeling is that this type of degree is excellent because life and business […]
Dan Pink on Coworking, “It’s more than simply real estate”
I attended Town Hall Seattle tonight to listen to Dan Pink talk about “What really motivates us”. Dan’s the author a bunch of books, his latest called “Drive”. Dan focused in on three things during his presentation: 1) Autonony, 2) Mastery, and 3) Purpose. I could go into details, but, I wanted to focus in […]
Best Industries from 2000 to 2009
There is a post by Paul Kedrosky titled “Best and Worst Industries of Decade, or, Why Children’s Clothes Makers Need to Get Into VoIP”. I found it interesting so I thought I would post the top 10 over here. If you want to see the bottom 10, I recommend you check out Paul’s post. It […]
The Best Ad in the Last Decade
As we close out the another decade, this is hands down my favorite ad and could very well be my favorite of all time. What’s your favorite over the last decade? What would the world be like if everything had to be rational, would there be room for a dreamer? Would there be room for […]
Crush it! Living Your Passion or Earning a Living?
I just finished reading Crush it! a book written by Gary Vaynerchuk (@garyvee) creator of Wine Library TV and built a $60M business. He’s got three rules. Rule #1: Love your family. I look at these three rules and I can’t disagree with his list. One of the guiding principles that I’ve put in place […]
Seattle Twitter Community Comes Together in Different Ways
Who will win? Background about Kenji: Kenji’s a huge sports fan. You can tell by looking at his Twitter avatar with his Seahawks logo etched into his photo. He’s also an avid Fantasy Football League player, as this is one of his five leagues that he’s in. Background about Peter: In the past, I worked […]
thinkspace’s thinktank Just Got Smarter – Please Welcome Angie Thain!
We are expanding our services to our thinkspace members and our local Redmond community by launching our new Business Services code named “thinkspace OS”. Angie Thain is our new team member and her role is Business Services Director. I like to draw an analogy to our thinkspace OS services as being similar to a computer’s […]
Twitter's view of what people think about you
Twitter launched a new feature a few weeks ago, called “Lists”. The feature allows users the ability to create lists and add other Twitter users to that list. For example, I created a Twitter list called “thinkspace Community” and added over 30 people that are thinkspace members to that list. It’s helpful for me because […]