Parkour is to entrepreneurs as golf is to (some) corporate executives. (Previously posted at Forbes.) In the past few years, I’ve taught myself some of the basics of parkour, which is effectively skateboarding without the skateboard. The goal is to navigate your environment as quickly and [...continue reading]
> Personal3 Ways Proven Executives Get Paid To Work With Startups
Drew Hansen recently posted in Forbes a summary of my presentation on Career Opportunities with Private Equity and Venture Capital Portfolio Companies. The article is here. [...continue reading]
Is The Government Telling The Truth When It Says Your Data Is Secure?
(I previously published this at Techcrunch.) Modern encryption systems are, in theory, exceptionally secure. The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), for example, is so sophisticated that all known attacks are considered computationally infeasible. It is no surprise then, that the NSA considers [...continue reading]
How to End Your Job Search: Post Job Campaign Considerations
This is a guest post from Jim Kacena, Career and Job Search Coach, in Chicago, IL. I received the article below via the International Executives Resource Group, of which I’ve been a long-time member. (The IERG is a gated online community for senior executives with strong international [...continue reading]
ff Venture Capital Holiday Video 2012, with in-office workout
We would like to wish you Happy Holidays from ff Venture Capital! This video gives you a sense of our "fitness office" during the holidays. If you are not familiar with photography memes like "ff-ing", you might want to look at some related memes: planking, batmanning, and owling. There's [...continue reading]
Free Video: How to Hack Your MBA
Evisors just posted the video from my recent webinar on "How to Hack Your MBA". Since 1992, I've been working on a book tentatively titled "Hack your Education: How to Squeeze Maximum Value from College or Graduate School". I've posted on my site the expanded slides from the webinar and a [...continue reading]
Never Leave the Playground
If you're interested in being both physically and mentally fit -- regardless of your age -- you have to watch this 71-year-old. I definitely share his philosophy that you should "Never Leave the Playground." I can comfortably guarantee that he can do some tricks that you (and definitely I) cannot [...continue reading]
