Entrepreneurs, self promoters, and anyone who wants to live unrestrained by the rules of “normal life” have to learn to sell themselves. If you’ve got a business idea you really want to see take off, or if you’d like to excel through the ranks of your company, or even to build great personal relationships that last, you need to learn [...]

Rajesh Setty is president of Foresight Plus, where he helps give his professional clients the unfair business advantage. He also blogs at Life Beyond Code, where he coaches the rest of us on how to have the unfair life advantage! Rajesh has written numerous books (he had his first one published at age 13!) and founded several successful companies, and [...]

I’ve been working hard the past two weeks on getting an interview series together for Ramit Sethi’s site IWillTeachYouToBeRich.com. We are hosting interviews with authors and experts on women and personal finance/entrepreneurship, so it’s been very interesting so far. The series starts this week, so keep an eye on IWillTeachYouToBeRich.com for more info. Also, I will link to each story [...]

I LOVE this article by Ron Davison! The Bay Area and the Reinvention of Self: “I don’t know if there is another place on the planet where people are so full of possibility – whether it be the possibility of reinventing themselves by a change in thinking…or body…or starting a business with which they expect to change the world and [...]

Last week was EntrepreneurshipWeek USA across the nation and beyond, sponsored by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, the New York Times, and Inc Magazine. Over 350 participating universities host their own events to bring together the best entrepreneurial thinkers and leaders–events like Brown University’s 60-second Elevator Pitch competition, Purdue’s Idea-to-Product (I2P) competition, and the Idea Bounce contest at the University [...]

April 15 through 18 is the Web 2.0 Expo at Moscone Center West, in SF. There are a whole host of expensive learning sessions and workshops, but I just registered for an expo pass today. The normal prices is $100, but if you visit web2expo.com/registration and try using the discount code WEBEX07ECON before the 12th you might just find you [...]

So, on Monday I took the day off and went down to Palo Alto for an interview. My friend Patrick Briggs works for a small internet startup called Zazzle.com. They were founded in 1999 by brothers Jeff and Bobby Beaver and their dad Robert, did R&D into new printing techniques for a few years and came out with some awesome [...]