Sun.Apr 12, 2015

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Are You Mentally Tough Enough To Be An Entrepreneur?

Startup Professionals Musings

'You have to be extra tough mentally to be an entrepreneur. While thinking about it, I realized that it’s really not that different from the toughness required and trained into America’s elite military force of Navy SEALs, who are known to be cool under fire, able to sense danger before it’s too late, and never give up on achieving their objective. I learned some good lessons along these lines from a recent book “ The Way of the SEAL ,” by Mark Divine.

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Can You Build Your Business on Somebody Else’s Platform?

Both Sides of the Table

'Many of you will know that Twitter unexpectedly cancelled it’s contract to allow DataSift to resell Twitter data to 3rd parties. I read the declarations by industry analysts on Twitter that this was “proof that you can’t build a business on somebody else’s platform” and perhaps DataSift should have known better. This misunderstands the situation so I want to clarify things a bit.

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How toilet paper weirdly tells a story of industrial disruption

Start Up Blog

'If you’ve been wondering recently why you use so much toilet paper. Why it seems every year you’re buying more rolls than ever before. Wonder no more. As a bonus you’ll also find out with a weird example how so many industrial companies sow the seeds of their own disruption. The first every job I held with a big company after graduating was with Kimberly Clark.