I recently was reading email in my parked car. A car pulled up near me. A young and pretty woman got out. Pale and thin, she looked tense. An older woman had driven her. She looked very sad. They started unloading a few plastic bags of clothing and children’s toys. It wasn’t much. The young
Category: Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurs = hope
Last week, I had a hope-filled day. I spent all day meeting with entrepreneurs. I met founders from all over. I started in the morning meeting start-up folks from Europe: Estonia, Paris, Spain, and London. In the latter part of the day, I then met with a new team from our local area here. In
Great advice from Amazon’s Jeff Bezos
In a previous life, I was recruited for a young company in Seattle. I would report directly to the CEO. One of my earliest encounters with a VC was during this time, when he called me at home to recruit me to the company. That company was Amazon.com, the CEO was Jeff Bezos, and the VC