What happens when you run a remote, online business? Find out how operating a location-independent business has opened doors to new people & experiences for me and what motivates me to keep traveling and experimenting.

When life gives you lemons, what do you do? When I royally screwed up my relationship with my gorgeous, ambitious ex-girlfriend, lost the great beach house on Koh Phangan, became disillusioned with my business and had a rock climbing injury, it brought out all kinds of fears. Here’s what I did to get back on track to mastering that fear of uncertainty.

Today I share my Christmas letter to friends and family—my update on my travels, work, volunteering, and personal growth in 2009 and reflections on living an unconventional lifestyle after 1 year living abroad.

Explosively successful gen-y blogger & NYT best-selling author Ramit Sethi answers some questions about entrepreneurship, experimentation & failure, how he negotiated a book deal & promoted his book to #1 on Amazon, and tells us about his new I Will Teach You To Be Rich Personal Finance Bootcamp.

…It’s always better to try a swan dive and deliver a colossal belly flop than to step timidly off the board while holding your nose. —Management guru Tom Peters, in Fast Company Magazine (October 2003)

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 [...]