Category Archives: Musings
An Entrepreneur Ecosystem
I recently read Brad Feld‘s book, Startup Communities and I loved it. Creating a healthy startup ecosystem — one that supports and encourages entrepreneurs — is something that I really care about and Brad has helped to build one of the
The Startup Building
I’m excited to announce that on March 1, we officially moved the Franchise Foundry offices. We are now housed in the historic Startup Building in Provo. I am pretty attached to Provo since I grew up here and have lived
Uncertainty
I’m not sure where I read it, but I recently came across this quote: “It’s not that good entrepreneurs are comfortable with risk, they are comfortable with uncertainty.” I think there is something to that. Of course there is risk
The Hedgehog Principle
In “Good to Great”, Jim Collins (citing Isaiah Berlin) compares a fox to a hedgehog. The fox knows many things, the hedgehog knows one big thing. The fox spends its day figuring out how to attack the hedgehog in various
Business Process and Continuous Improvement
At Franchise Foundry, we spend a lot of time talking about process and thinking about how to improve processes. We do this for our partner businesses and we do it for our business too. For example, yesterday I was talking
It’s like Jim Collins Commented on My Blog
Well. Not really. In fact, not at all. But I did find this Inc. article where Jim Collins is being interviewed about entrepreneurship and he talks about Steve Jobs as an entrepreneur. Here’s what he says: I think we saw
The Yo-Yo Entrepreneur
Most of us are familiar with the concept of a yo-yo dieter. This is the person that you hate to eat dinner with because he tells you how many calories are in the entree you just ordered. He probably orders
Questions Guy Kawasaki Wants to Ask Entrepreneurs
I saw that Guy Kawasaki tweeted about an interview that he did about ghost tweeting. The fact that Guy ghost tweets really bothers some of my friends and it seems to bother Shaq too, who is quoted in this NYT
Ideas vs. Execution
I recently had the chance to talk to a university class about entrepreneurship. I think talking about business might be the thing I like most, so having the microphone for an hour and half was a lot of fun. During
