I’ve always believed that when it comes to business, you’re either ‘making’ or ‘selling’. You’re either building a product or service, fixing it, or making it better for customers. Or you’re selling a product or service, driving awareness, acquiring customers or closing distribution deals. If you’re somehow caught between or don’t directly support one of […]
Bootstrapping Market Research
I would never recommend that anybody start a company without first doing market research. There are just way too many hair-brained ideas that seem good, but never find a solid, sustainable market. Before we launched Rivet & Sway, we spent most of our spare time (yes, after work and on the weekends) researching the eyewear […]
What’s in a Name?
I could write an entire 2 page post on how we came up with the name Rivet & Sway, what our strategic goals were for our name, and the painstaking, frustrating and ofttimes enlightening process that we went through (ever heard of a Mindmap? Yeah, we put one of those together). And I could spend another […]
My Next Gig | Rivet & Sway
Yep, it’s true. I’ve officially started my 2nd company. Personally, I would have preferred to spend the last 10 years starting numerous companies and traveling the world promoting The MouseDriver Chronicles, but it just didn’t turn out that way. But patience perseveres and I recently launched a new company, Rivet & Sway, that sells prescription […]
5 Words of Wisdom for Entrepreneurship Students
Over the last month I’ve had the fortunate opportunity to both guest lecture in University entrepreneurship courses and keynote and Entrepreneurship Conference at Queens College. I’m also fortunate in that The MouseDriver Chronicles continues to serve as an inspiring story for students (and others) around the world who dream of someday becoming entrepreneurs. You know […]
Blowing it out in Istanbul
What can I say? The spontaneity that began this trip certainly continued with our adventures in Turkey. After blowing it out during our first night in Istanbul, we decided to head South and check out the scenic coastline that so many people have recommended. Fortunately, flights in Turkey are dirt cheap, so we were able […]
A Night in Sarajevo
OUCH! I don’t want to call it a complete waste, but most of our day was spent recovering from an all night bender last night. Our first 18 hours in Istanbul could have occurred in London, New York or Las Vegas for that matter. Our plane landed from Sarajevo at 7pm, we checked into the […]
War and Introspection
Our time in Croatia is easily separated into two distinct trips: partying and introspection. We ended up spending 3 nights in Split mainly because we befriended some locals who turned out to be absolutely fantastic hosts. In addition to taking time to show us their city, they integrated us into the local Split nightlife. Both […]
Croatian Hospitality
We’ve tried pretty hard to keep a pretty open schedule, and mind, during this trip. The only ‘planning’ we did was to make sure we had a place to stay in Rome, an assigned seat on a flight from Rome to Split, Croatia and a ticket from Istanbul back to Seattle. Everything else has been […]
Rome in Three Days
We landed in Croatia last night and there’s no way I can summarize our entire Rome trip in one post. So in the spirit of brevity I’ll try to touch on the highlights…of where there are certainly a few: Highlight #1: Scooter drag racing. Ok, we didn’t really drag-race, but given that we couldn’t sleep […]
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