Of Consciousness: Archive

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Letting go

BillGuard investor Roger Ehrenberg wrote a great post this weekend about Founder CEOs needing to learn how to let go of control and in particular our “power zones”. Friends, go read it. I’m a classic Product CEO. I’ve got a Steve Jobs poster on my wall and etched in my subconscious. My power zone; UX, stems from 15 years as a design-centric product manager at startups,...

Jan 9th

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One of the most underrated qualities of a successful tech Founder/CEO: Charisma. This one’s for you Pops.

Jan 8th

“Your best lessons are the ones you teach.”

Jan 6th

Free Business Ideas For All

I was interviewed last year by IdeaMensch and one of the questions was to give away a business idea to others. I thought that was a really cool question. Entrepreneurs have lots of ideas that never see the light of day. Why not share them? I personally keep a Google Doc of all my ideas, give them a name and even buy a domain. I’ve been doing it for years. Turns out IdeaMensch asks that...

Jan 5th

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BillGuard mentioned on CBS’s “The Early Show”, a nationwide news program seen my millions! Jump to minute 1:25 for the discussion on “gray charges”. These are deceptive, erroneous and unauthorized charges from legitimate merchants. They cost consumers billions each year and up until now there hasn’t been a way to fight them besides each of us catching them on...

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“Running a design-centric tech startup is walking a tight rope between quant and...”

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Does your investor work like this? They should. cc...

I’ve been working with Roger Ehrenberg and his rock star team of big-data geeks at IA Ventures almost since the day we started dreaming up BillGuard. He was one of our first big believers and financial supporters. We talk shop often but since being heads down on the product and traveling like mad over the past month we hadn’t been in touch since Nov 8th. Today I get this email from him...

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Elevator pitchin with MediaBistro TV. Adding to @BillGuard hiring plan: Makeup Artist. http://bit.ly/sdI2ZJ

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Hats off @WhatsApp

The last time my family members and other “normals” introduced ME to a technology was ICQ. This time its WhatsApp. Literally everybody, NOT in my tech circles, is using it on their phone for, well, IM’ing. How could a Sequoia-backed app built by ex-Yahoo’s in the valley with 10’s of millions of users, 500,000 new downloads a day and 1 billion messages a day go so...

Oct 31st

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Startup summit Israeli style. Thanks @iendeavors for organizing! cc @billguard, @atshaker, @donanza

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Thank You, Steve.

The passing of an icon marks the creation of a legend. Steve Jobs is now legendary. Some are calling him the Edison or Henry Ford of our time. A pioneer of the digital age. A creative genius who could see and create the future. Those are deserving titles but what strikes me since his passing is the very personal impact he’s had on people’s lives. People are truly sad, as if a family...

Oct 7th

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“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” ...

Oct 6th

“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300...”

– Michael Jordan

Oct 4th