For me, anything new starts with a brainstorm.  Almost everything I’ve ever written started as a brainstormed list and was later constructed into a complete thought.  As much as I’ve mentioned enjoying this in the past, in a way, I envy those people that can turn a blank page directly into to something well crafted and polished.  It certainly saves a few steps.

In college, my freshman year writing teacher once told me I was one of the most step-by-step writers she’d ever read.  I could apparently write (surprise to me), I wasn’t lacking things to say (less of a surprise), but I was just really, really sequential she told me.  (This woman had the dark, artsy grad student thing down pat.  I’m sure she didn’t know what to make of my engineering ass.)  My creativity simply comes at a different part in the process — the brainstorm’s where the fun is.  It’s putting together the puzzle from that brainstorm that’s logical sequential.

Anyways, here it is.  We’ll see how I put it all together.

Community

• Sustainability in your Community
• Eyeballs to Fingertips Ratio

Build systems, not products.

Feedback – get it every where you can

• Emails
• Webinar
• Power Users
• Coworkers

Revenue

• You need more
• Who has the pockets
• Traditional vs. Non Traditional

Operations

• Always getting better
• Document!
• Know when to fudge it.

Wikinvest – Working for a startup, analyzing conglomerates.

Changing Landscape

• Falling (failing) newspapers.
• Large institutions are out.  Little is in.
• Paying platforms – Mahalo, Facebook, iPhone
• Manager your own money

ADRE and QQQQ

Ownership

• Company Options
• Personal Investing

What’s Failure?  What’s success?

Your Network

• Casually
• Personally
• Network-ily

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