After selling MicroAmerica, my father took a year off before being approached to become the CEO of a fast growing company, Edsun Labs. Edsun was a fabless semi conductor and was producing cutting-edge chips. There were three fundamental problems however, the my father only learned after talking to manufacturing, sales, and clients: The chip couldn’t [...]
Although I do not suppose that either of us knows anything really beautiful and good, I am better off than he is, for he knows nothing, and thinks that he knows; I neither know nor think that I know. Socrates My father was a very successful CEO in his day, and while he will never [...]
After pinging the InterMatch.com guys a couple times to figure out what was going on in the “Shadow Dave McClure” competition (I am trying to plan the rest of my summer…), I finally heard back with less than stellar news: I was not selected to be Dave’s shadow. I received the news last night while [...]
One of the many lessons my father has taught me is that opportunity is merely the intersection of preparedness and luck. Preparedness is many things. It can be putting yourself in a new situations, going new places, and meeting new people. It could be having expert knowledge in a domain. Maybe it is something as [...]
My father sent me an e-mail earlier today that said, As I was thinking of you, it occurred to me that I wanted to tell you: It is much harder to run with a full bucket than an empty one…… I had absolutely no idea what he meant, so I asked him to elaborate. Here is [...]
Dad’s love giving advice. They can’t help it. And they always have their own way of sharing it. I call them “dad-isms.” My father’s lessons always had an entrepreneurial or business lesson spin. He was a successful entrepreneur in his own day: he launched distributor Microamerica in 1979 (merged with Softsel in 1990) and computer reseller [...]