Entrepreneurship
Founder journey, startup lessons, and business strategy
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Starting Daily Founder Fuel
This past week, I had an idea for an app. This idea came from an impulse to jot down some thoughts about my business challenges and how they needed to be written out, journaled, thought through, and developed further. I wanted to incorporate this into a daily practice, recognizing the value of writing. Everyone knows…
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My Early AI Business Failure
The year was 2011, I was deep into affiliate marketing and AdSense with content websites. On the side I had created and launched a dozen different WordPress blogs. Things were getting unwieldy. The backups, updates, monitoring, designing, and writing content for all these websites was a lot of work, and it easy to miss things…
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Launch with AI: The Agile Path to Success
Maybe the algorithm is trying to tell me something, but I’ve heard a concept from multiple different people, in different ways over the last few weeks: “Now Not How” – Noah Kagan “Press Publish” – Colin and Samir “Do It Now” – Brian Tracy “Done is better than Perfect” – Sheryl Sandberg “Start Before You’re…
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Factorio
I don’t often get to play video games, but I have put in 242 hours on Factorio. These are my favorite kind of games – resource management. And this one in particular focuses on one of my favorite things to think about – factories. The game features a complex tech tree of products that need…
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The Thesis Behind Psychedelic Water
I posted this on Twitter a while ago, but this site is a good place to document these thoughts as well: 1. Alternatives to alcohol is a growing market. There is a tailwind here as more people opt-out of consuming alcohol. I believe this is driven from disruption of the bar scene, zoom and video…
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Write down what you do
Doing a little Journaling to document all the things you do in a single day can have an eye opening feeling. Yesterday, at around 5pm I started to write. At first, it felt like I hadn’t done much that day, but as I started to write out all the things that happened the list got…
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Playing a Part in Re-Shoring
One thing that has become abundantly clear over the last year is just how fragile our global supply chain is. Covid lockdowns froze up the train yards and docks creating a shipping backlog, spiking costs and adding delays on all imports hoarding of toilet paper made it a scarse resource Snow in Texas disrupted all…
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Finding Winners
There are lots of stats out there about how many businesses fail. It is astounding that something close to 9 out of every 10 businesses fold in just a few years. With each of those businesses there are smart ambitious people with the best of intentions, plans, and money to get things off the ground.…
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Canadian Manufacturing
Over the last couple of months I’ve been giving some thought to how the manufacturing business works, specifically in Canada. It’s been driven partly from things that I’ve been trying to buy, partly from wanting to try my hand at small scale production of something in the garage and also because it’s such an important…
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Value of Vision
In business, when talking about writing a business plan, or when a consultant evaluates a business, sometimes a vision or mission statement are things that get discussed. For a long time I have looked at these kind of things as fluff. It’s a bunch of people wordsmithing a document that will never be read outside…
