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Start-ups and Music

Start-ups and Music

Last night I went to the Basilica Block Party featuring Death Cab for Cutie, American Authors, X Ambassadors, and other bands across multiple stages.  With my work in the start-up community, I can’t help but think of the similarities between a start-up and a band. For a band, it works like this… You get your […]

The Creativity of Pixar

The Creativity of Pixar

Earlier this year, I read the book Creativity Inc, by Ed Catmull, the President of Pixar and it was a fantastic book about how to nurture creativity in organizations. Pixar optimizes collaborative creativity and allows people to bring their whole selves to work and do outstanding creative work. Pixar further amplifies this creativity by mastering […]

Lessons from Dubai

Lessons from Dubai

This week, a new class came into Tradecraft and I was assigned to one of the new students as a mentor.  My mentee has lived in Dubai for 11 years and we shared stories about our experiences there.  For me, I visited Dubai on my travel sabbatical.  Being in Dubai, really blew me away on multiple […]

Tradecraft

Tradecraft

Recently, I started a program called Tradecraft.  It is a 3 month, in-residence program that trains people to work at start-ups.  The program consists of curriculum, start-up consulting projects, career development, and personal development and has tracks for engineering, product, growth, and sales/BD.  I am in the growth track and it has been an excellent […]

Key to Accomplishing Something Big

Key to Accomplishing Something Big

I want to talk a bit today about how to accomplish something difficult.  For most people and me included, it is quite difficult to deal with a large task and know exactly how to pull it off.  The secret that I’ve found is in these 3 steps. 1) Identify and write down what goal you hope […]