Sometimes, one gets the feeling that entrepreneurs speak a different language from everyone else. Tech entrepreneurs especially. There are many market segments, and some of those have their own sub-segments..
With the tag line on the front cover of “New Insights into Winning the Interview and Getting the Job,” I was expecting to learn some new secrets I had never.
“Hey, Jason, it was great meeting you at XYZ event a few days ago. Your thing that you’re working on sounds pretty sweet. Let me know if I can help.
Adam Siegel is the co-founder of Inkling Markets, a company that creates prediction market software for large companies. He’s also recently founded Cityposh, a competitive local shopping site.
I invited Adam here today to share why he left a successful job at a large consulting firm to start Inkling Markets and what he’s learned along the way.
On Tuesday morning, when I usually publish my posts, I experienced one of those freak technological occurrences which remind users that their lives are increasingly digital, that they’ve come to.
We’ve all had those moments, walking out of conferences with a pocket full of business cards, we get in our cars or onto the train to go home and doubt.
What is it that makes a charismatic leader? Is it his or her message, or its delivery? Or is it something else, perhaps the inclination of the audience to believe.
Lately I’ve been doing quite a bit of business development for my freelance services, and its forced me even further out of my box than ever. I’m not speaking of.
I picked up Godin’s book because I’ve never read anything about leadership written for the express purpose of inspiring or instructing or empowering would-be leaders. And I realized, after about forty pages, that all of my criticism of inspirational flimflam such as this, yeah, it wasn’t baseless. Sorry, Seth.
As a tech writer in Milwaukee, I sometimes find myself forgetting the gigantic scale of the tech world in Chicago, and I long to be reminded. Chicago has always been.
