Dave Delaney invited my to participate in the Jumpstart Podcast this week. We talked about Bizen, where my inspiration comes from, and entrepreneurship in general. Check it out 
Note: The title of this post is a link to the podcast. Whenever there is a link icon next to the post it means that the post links to another site. I don’t know how intuitive that is.
Not sure how I missed this when it was first posted.
My input is that there is a perfect storm for entrepreneurship in Nashville right now. Jumpstart Foundry + Entrepreneur Center + TNInvestco = a great place to start a business.
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We are doing a series of events at the Entrepreneur Center on moving from developer to founder. The idea is to help talented and motivated software developers create more companies; I believe tech-driven startups are exceptional in the same way chef-run restaurants can be exceptional. Of course, no one can do it alone.
Great post from Mark Suster over the weekend. It has me thinking about how I want to approach blogging for Bizen. So far I am thinking that this will continue to be my personal blog, which means it is also the Bizen CEO blog. However, anything that may be of interest to Bizen’s customers or future customers will be posted under the Bizen domain. Of course, I will likely continue to link the two by posting links from here to there.
In the past decade or so the US economy has suffered from two bubbles bursting: the dotcom bust and the housing bust. Now everyone is focused on where the next bubble is. There are a bazillion articles and posts about the possibility of another tech bubble. There may or may not be a bubble growing; I will leave that debate to people smarter than me and people with more time on there hands.
“The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself.” (though maybe we should fear politicians too?)
The fundamentals of entrepreneurship haven’t changed much in the past several hundred years. Business is risky, that is the point. The only way to avoid business risk is to have a monopoly whether a governmental imposed monopoly like the US military and IRS or something more traditionally thought of as a monopoly like Ma Bell.
The freedom to compete in a market means that other people have that freedom too. You have the freedom to go into whatever business you want. If you see a market potential that no one else sees, you can make a lot of money exploiting that market. Once you make a lot of money, lots of other businesses will be competing to steal your customers.
If you can’t handle the risk, get out of the game.
Likewise, if you like the risk, but don’t understand the market, then go play in Vegas.
However, if you have a tolerance for risk and a deep understanding of a market, now is the perfect time to start a company. We will turn the economy around.
I am getting some really great search strings lately. The title of this post is a real search string that someone ran. There have also been recent searches for who I am married to (Erica Miller, she is super awesome), businesses I own (only two right now: Bizen and a couple of Plato’s Closet stores in Nashville, Nick and I sold gpsAssassin last year) and other variations looking for “anything” and “everything”.
Most of this information can be found by reading more about Jackson Miller. However, I do realize that is a little out of date and incomplete. Maybe I will get around to updating it soon.
Of course, curious internet searchers can always call me and ask questions directly: (615) 852-5296
Note: if this post seems odd, read this.
A microwave is yet another way to heat food. People already had ovens, ranges, toasters, grills and coffee pots in their house. Now there is a microwave in almost every house. Will tablets follow the same path?
Though it doesn’t sound like these companies have the data exhaust figured out yet.
