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The Tao of Start-ups

The Tao of Start-ups

It’s not easy to see how the Tao-te Ching, which advocates “nonaction,” “naturalness,” and essentially going with the flow, pertains to the incessant demands of entrepreneurship, but I’ve managed to find some of its wisdom really helpful in building businesses....

Enlightened about Thomas Edison

Enlightened about Thomas Edison

Everyone knows that Thomas Edison was a determined inventor, but I recently learned that he was a rather undisciplined businessman. I just finished The Wizard of Menlo Park by Randall Stross, which recounts how Edison’s prideful principles and difficulty working with...

Strength Through Humility – A Generational Thing

Strength Through Humility – A Generational Thing

In 2005, I attended a business event in which President Elect Joe Biden (Senator Biden at the time) headlined a slate of political speakers. He was by far the most engaging of them all and the most able to connect with us on a human level. Throughout the years that...

Doing It the HP Way

Doing It the HP Way

When I was building FatWire Software with my grad school buddy in the late 1990s, David Packard’s business philosophy was always at the back of my mind.