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Archive for the ‘Passion’ Category

June 20th, 2007

Interview with the entrepreneur and author, Ben Casnocha - Part 3

I recently had an opportunity to interview Ben Casnocha, an entrepreneur who just published his first book, called “My Startup Life”.
As you might have read in part 1 and part 2 if this three part interview, we discussed entrepreneurship, failure and growth.
Here is part 3 we wrap up by discussing coaches, advisors and mentors.
Let’s continue…
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By steve -- 0 comments

June 19th, 2007

Interview with the entrepreneur and author, Ben Casnocha - Part 2

I recently had an opportunity to interview Ben Casnocha, an entrepreneur who just published his first book, called “My Startup Life”.
As you might have read in part 1 if this three part interview, we discussed entrepreneurship and our shared passion of being a “bookslut”.
Here is part 2 we dive deeper into Failure, Growth and Creating […]

By steve -- 0 comments

June 18th, 2007

Interview with the entrepreneur and author, Ben Casnocha - Part 1

I recently had an opportunity to interview Ben Casnocha, an entrepreneur who just published his first book, called “My Startup Life”.
Ben just covered his luck in getting a New York Times Book Review. Here is the direct link to the review. It is an excellent and balance review that has the pluses and minuses of […]

By steve -- 2 comments

June 7th, 2007

Interview with an Entrepreneur: Hooman Radfar of Clearspring - Part 1

Hooman Radfar and Austin Fath founded Clearspring Technologies Inc. in 2004 after finishing graduate school at Carnegie Mellon University.
Yesterday, the upstart company landed a deal with NBC Universal to use its so-called widget technology to help the peacock network challenge fellow Clearspring customer CBS Interactive and ABC.com.
I recently completed this interview before the deal went […]

By steve -- 0 comments

May 30th, 2007

5 Reasons Microsoft Surface will change the face of computing

Since this is a blog focused on entrepreneurship it is important to note when companies allow creativity, innovation and entrepreneurial spirit to create revolutionary new products.
That product is called Microsoft Surface.

Quoting Eyes on Creativity, “Surface is a coffee table shaped device that utilizes touch screen technology and allows users to interact with it by human […]

By steve -- 13 comments

May 4th, 2007

Work Life Balance: Weekend Thoughts

As this first week of writing for B5 comes to a close I am looking forward to the weekend and spending time with family and friends. It also got me thinking about how most of us entrepreneur’s spend our weekends working on our business. This may be because you are just starting and there are […]

By steve -- 7 comments

May 2nd, 2007

How old were you when you became an entrepreneur?

Yesterday, I was reading Fred Wilson’s blog A VC and he had two interesting posts called “The Mid Life Entrepreneur Crisis” here and here. He was wondering where all the entrepreneur were that were in their forties and said that the prime time for entrepreneur’s is in their thirties. This was supported by this post […]

By steve -- 11 comments

April 30th, 2007

…And we’re back - with our new host, Steve Fisher

After a brief hiatus, Startup Spark is ignited and ready to go with a new host.
Let me introduce myself. My name is Steve Fisher. As you can see from my head shot I am attempting to look contemplative. I write this blog as part education to my readers and part therapy for myself. I have […]

By steve -- 13 comments

March 13th, 2007

Join the Live Talkathon for Kiva on March 18th

I’m a big supporter of the concept of microcredits or microloans — which are tiny amounts of money you loan to entrepreneurs in 3rd world countries to help them get their businesses off the ground.
One organization that helps promote the idea is Kiva - and back in January, I used Kiva to loan some money […]

By Ben Yoskovitz -- 4 comments

March 8th, 2007

An Entrepreneur’s Story Worth Telling - Austin Hill

There are some amazing entrepreneurs out there with even more amazing stories to tell.
One such example is Austin Hill (good friend of mine.) He just wrote his “inaugural blog post” after about 6 months of blogging. He took his time getting his feet wet and getting comfortable blogging to the world.
The post is titled Chasing […]

By Ben Yoskovitz -- 0 comments