I have relatively short attention span. Let me explain myself… I love solving problems, in fact, I always say that I haven’t found a challenge that I couldn’t solve (and I mean daily challenges not age long mathematical problems). If I find a challenge I will focus on it like a mad man and learn about it, turn it apart and become an expert as quick as possible. I think there is a medical name for that, OCD, obsessive compulsive disorder… or something.
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My take on Amazon rumors and lessons to be learned
Amazon has been a lot on the news lately, mostly on the matter of revenues and their statements that the market just doesn’t get their “long-term” strategy. I have my personal opinion that I will share at some point, but this last days there has been some other matters about Amazon that have caught my attention. These are the rumors (more or less confirmed) about Amazon opening brick-and-mortar stores and if it’s a good or bad idea.
My first take on that rumor was of complete shock and denial. It couldn’t be, by doing so they were completely messing up the core of its business. They where fumbling with their very own values! But then after giving it some thought I started thinking that if they did it right maybe that wasn’t such a bad idea.
So, am I in favor or against? It depends, and here it is why:
Tips on building your tech company for non-tech guys
First of all, as I have said many times, I haven’t got a technical profile… I’ve majored in Business Administration and have always worked in Business Development and Product Management during my “short” working life.
One common advice to all of us non-technical profiles that decide to start a new internet business is to “learn to program”… So that is what I did… And after some days of Python and Ruby-on-Rails I can tell you one thing: I am sorry to say but if you take into consideration all the implications and the time needed, that advice is… nonsense.
After attending some developer meetup and telling my story almost every advice I got was in fact the contrary… “Want to learn to program? don’t even try. Go find a CTO co-founder”. And that is what I did, and after a month doing that, I had a big breakthrough. That advice is, also… nonsense.
Changing your source of motivation
When working at a big company there is always a focus on daily tasks. You have got a full inbox, 3 or 4 meetings and a trickling stream of people approaching your table to discuss this and that. The little time you have got left is focused in getting something done of that project with a dangerously close deadline. Day after day. Not much time for creative work then…
Then you decide to start your own business and suddenly your “daily” world turns upside down.
Starting Entrepreneurs: How to keep your momentum going
Usually, ideas, if not nourished, end up crippling and dying. Even the most interesting and visionary. Without momentum, ideas that once had grown and developed in our head into the “next Google” end up loosing their vivid color and fall into oblivion. For startups, momentum lives and breathes in Silicon Valley, but for many of us, California is a bit out of hand… So you have to look for “momentum” in other places…
The amazing free cog 