Friday, December 13, 2013
Thursday, December 5, 2013
Building a personal brand that is in demand
Herman Chann knows a thing or two about building a personal brand----from college dropout to an online celebrity. Lets see how he did it.
Wednesday, December 4, 2013
Tuesday, December 3, 2013
Super Agents Live is coming soon
Super Agents Live is coming soon--we should be live in the next week or so. I have gotten just about 30 interviews so far and we are going to launch. This post is an attempt to see if itunes will lock my account for using the music we have chosen---dont know if they realize that it is from creative commons.
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
New Startup
I have not blogged in a really long time mainly, because I became a little self conscious. I was doing some investing --angel or otherwise-- and I felt that I was being too public about it. So I pulled back.
I am going to fire up this blog (hopefully) and mainly discuss my views and the stuff I am working on.
I am really excited right now about my new company www.taskhero.com We are writing code as we speak. For those of you who know me----I did a company called workexchange in 1999. We competed with Elance at the time and unfortunately, we were all a bit early and being early is the same as being completely wrong--we shut down and so did everyone else in that space.
My new company TaskHero is a variation of what workexchange was doing. Instead of being a platform to outsource technology work ---TaskHero is a platform for people to outsource their daily tasks in a localized way.
Let me explain why I am doing this company. I often wonder what the world will look like in 2030. How will we live differently? How will we work differently? There is so much exciting change happening right now that the world in 2030 will look nothing like the world we know today. Drucker said it best.
Every few hundred years there occurs a sharp transformation. Society crosses a divide where withing a few short decades, society rearranges itself--its worldview, its values, its social and political structures. Fifty years later there is a new world and the people born into it cannot imagine the world in which their own parents were born. Sound familiar? Growing up we had 6 channels on the television and rotary dial phones that were tethered to the wall. I recently heard a funny story---a father and daughter spend a night at a hotel---the daughter wants to make a call and picks up the phone. The daughter picks up the receiver and hangs up --------she tells her father that the phone was broken. He asked why she thought that and she answered by telling him there was just a constant noise on the other end. What she was hearing was a dialtone---she had never heard a dialtone on a phone before!! How different our world is today.
Back to the discussion---these massive societal shifts have been happening since the 1500's. The first huge change came with Gutenberg's invention of the printing press and Martin Luther's protestant reformation. As thought distribution became widespread there was a rediscovery period that changed the world.
The next transformation began in 1776 the year of the American Revolution and Adam Smith's Wealth of the nations---it was during this time that all is "ism's" emerged. Capitalism, Communism and the Industrial Revolution was born. It was during this time period that the Rothschilds of the world became more powerful and influential than Kings and Princes. Again--during the 1820's no one living at this time could imagine the world in which their grandparents had lived and their parents had been born.
Now Our period; two hundred years later is a period in which there has been massive transformation. After World War 2 ---America created the American G.I. Bill allowing every returning soldier money to attend a university----------this was the key factor in building our society into a knowledge society. This massive infusion of knowledge into our world has created the technology and specifically the internet that has changed the way we communicate, interact, and conduct commerce.
TaskHero is being built on the idea that the world is rapidly changes the way we work. In the future I see a world where everyone essentially works for themselves. In the future everyone will be the CEO of him/herself. Could we see a person IPO'ing themselves? Today--could Mark Zuckerberg sell shares of himself and his future creations? I guarantee you that Steve Jobs could have done it.
Well--that sort of thing is way off into the future but, for right now---TaskHero is the path in which I want to put people back to work. I want to inspire entrepreneurship---even if it begins with microentrepeneurship. I want to help people achieve their dreams!!
I am going to fire up this blog (hopefully) and mainly discuss my views and the stuff I am working on.
I am really excited right now about my new company www.taskhero.com We are writing code as we speak. For those of you who know me----I did a company called workexchange in 1999. We competed with Elance at the time and unfortunately, we were all a bit early and being early is the same as being completely wrong--we shut down and so did everyone else in that space.
My new company TaskHero is a variation of what workexchange was doing. Instead of being a platform to outsource technology work ---TaskHero is a platform for people to outsource their daily tasks in a localized way.
Let me explain why I am doing this company. I often wonder what the world will look like in 2030. How will we live differently? How will we work differently? There is so much exciting change happening right now that the world in 2030 will look nothing like the world we know today. Drucker said it best.
Every few hundred years there occurs a sharp transformation. Society crosses a divide where withing a few short decades, society rearranges itself--its worldview, its values, its social and political structures. Fifty years later there is a new world and the people born into it cannot imagine the world in which their own parents were born. Sound familiar? Growing up we had 6 channels on the television and rotary dial phones that were tethered to the wall. I recently heard a funny story---a father and daughter spend a night at a hotel---the daughter wants to make a call and picks up the phone. The daughter picks up the receiver and hangs up --------she tells her father that the phone was broken. He asked why she thought that and she answered by telling him there was just a constant noise on the other end. What she was hearing was a dialtone---she had never heard a dialtone on a phone before!! How different our world is today.
Back to the discussion---these massive societal shifts have been happening since the 1500's. The first huge change came with Gutenberg's invention of the printing press and Martin Luther's protestant reformation. As thought distribution became widespread there was a rediscovery period that changed the world.
The next transformation began in 1776 the year of the American Revolution and Adam Smith's Wealth of the nations---it was during this time that all is "ism's" emerged. Capitalism, Communism and the Industrial Revolution was born. It was during this time period that the Rothschilds of the world became more powerful and influential than Kings and Princes. Again--during the 1820's no one living at this time could imagine the world in which their grandparents had lived and their parents had been born.
Now Our period; two hundred years later is a period in which there has been massive transformation. After World War 2 ---America created the American G.I. Bill allowing every returning soldier money to attend a university----------this was the key factor in building our society into a knowledge society. This massive infusion of knowledge into our world has created the technology and specifically the internet that has changed the way we communicate, interact, and conduct commerce.
TaskHero is being built on the idea that the world is rapidly changes the way we work. In the future I see a world where everyone essentially works for themselves. In the future everyone will be the CEO of him/herself. Could we see a person IPO'ing themselves? Today--could Mark Zuckerberg sell shares of himself and his future creations? I guarantee you that Steve Jobs could have done it.
Well--that sort of thing is way off into the future but, for right now---TaskHero is the path in which I want to put people back to work. I want to inspire entrepreneurship---even if it begins with microentrepeneurship. I want to help people achieve their dreams!!
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Why I hate Monday’s
Yesterday my head was swimming---vision was blurry and there was a constant ringing in my ears---well not really but, I wanted to get the paragraph warmed up. Yesterday I was waiting for one of my Escrows to either get going or fall apart and it was raining and the roof on my house was leaking.
Proactive or Reactive? I really should have told the roofer to start 3 months ago when I got the estimate but, for reasons unknown I thought it could wait---or I thought I would do it next week and then other stuff started to pile up and all of the sudden---my roof problem wasn't a problem when it is sunny.
So—if that wasn't enough---I went to one of my houses to check on it---I drive up and the neighbor asked me if I was keeping a dog in the backyard. I told her that I was not keeping a dog there as I only visit the property once a month or so…..my curiosity is peaked and I go into the backyard---I see paint cans stacked up outside the garage door---*strange*---I move the paint cans and peek inside. As I open up the door I see a huge head and two eyes looking at me. It was a 4 month old Pit Bull!!! Some piece of shit person locked a puppy in my garage and left it there. The neighbor said that she heard it crying for the last two cold nights---I have not been to property in about a week so who knows how long that poor little guy was stuck in there with no food and water.
Anyhow—I got him out and as he was shivering with fear gave him some water and affection. As I was petting him---I realized that he had scars on his face and legs---it looks like the guy who left him there to die had fought him. The dog gradually warmed up to me pretty quick as I think he knew I just saved his life. Luckily the neighbor said she knew a guy who has been looking for a pit bull puppy. We called the guy and he came and got his new pup. So far so good.
I was a little shaken by that as well as the idea that I had to get on my Spanish tile roof and try to fix my leak without falling off the house and breaking up my tiles. I went to Home Depot and bought some plastic, mastic, and a headlamp for working in the dark---well----got everything in my truck but, left the headlamp at the store—realized it when it was getting dark----after home depot—sent to Vons and bought some food and two pallets of water----well---got the food in my truck but, left the water at the store.
Never—ever have done this before let alone two times in two hours---I guess that dog thing bothered me more than I realized. Lets hope we can get on with this escrow so I can get up to the cabin and do some boarding.
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