Blog Category: Entrepreneurship

I don’t think Craig wanted to talk to me. For one thing, I smelled. I woke up late and rushed out to get to the “Women Entrepreneurs” breakfast where Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist was speaking. There were about 40 women there, Craig, and then me. I crashed the breakfast. I had some questions for […]

After the third attempt and failure at starting a business I said, “That’s it. I’m never doing this again! This is clearly for other people.” I hated it. But I tried again. I HAD ZERO BUSINESS SENSE. All I knew about business was this: if you do work for someone, you get paid, and then you […]

“How do you build a personal brand?” Cows are branded. Unhealthy drinks are branded. Toothpaste has 4 out of 5 dentists recommending it. That 5th dentist ended up with a gag in his mouth, handcuffed to concrete at the bottom of the river. He had three kids. They miss him. If you see him call […]

The Secret To Doing What You Love “I came to LA because I write films,” the Uber driver told me. “I wrote a movie about kids in a ghetto, trying to survive.” We were going just a few blocks. I was lazy and didn’t feel like walking. “So far I had a meeting at CAA, […]

10 Reasons You Should Quit Your Day Job But Not Your Day Dream Mostly, I was a criminal. Unless I was excited, I could care less. And I’d actively sabotage my job and my happiness. I eat what I kill. The magic happens only when I’m in love. Ten things I learned while I quit […]

He was definitely too old. Everyone told him he was too old. Publishers hated him. He tried year after year. He was getting tired. It was harder to get up in the morning. He hated his job. Maybe he hated his life. He was stuck. He was getting frustrated. Rejections piling up. Another and then […]

The reality is: I took a job so I could have an excuse to move cities and slowly disintegrate the relationship with my girlfriend. I figured living 300 miles away would allow me to disengage from contact with her and eventually end it. It ended the way these things typically end. She was unhappy with […]