[24 Jan 2010 | No Comment | 81 views]
I Graduated, Turned 23, What Now?

This post is a long over due. It’s 2:00 a.m. and I can’t sleep so I decided to write about my graduation and post graduation thoughts.
The graduation ceremony/commencement was at 9:00 a.m. on December 12, 2009. We [business majors] and engineers were bundled together for the first morning slot of graduation in Mott Gym. I was a little bummed that our graduation was in Mott Gym and not on the football field like the Spring commencements are, but it actually turned out quite well. I can understand since it …

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[24 Jan 2010 | One Comment | 107 views]
The Top Ten Lies of Entrepreneurs

The Top Ten Lies of Entrepreneurs

It’s easy to turn off prospective investors.
Just feed them the same old lines.
by Guy Kawasaki
For a few months, Ive had a constant ringing in my right ear. The condition is called tinnitus, and my doctors say that it can be cause by an ear infection, too much salt in one’s diet, a stressful lifestyle, or even a neuroma.
I have a different theory. I think that listening to the lies, exaggerations, and wishful thinking of entrepreneurs has caused the ringing. You see, I’m in the …

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[16 Nov 2009 | One Comment | 256 views]
You’re Done Working For The Man. It’s Time To Be The man.

This is an article featured in the July 2009 Men’s Health Magazine which features Josh Duhamel on the cover. I couldn’t find the full article online so I decided to type the entire article in a blog post. I thought it was not only a great read, but inspirational as well and wanted to share it with anyone who crosses paths with my website. Enjoy!

You, Inc.

Do you really intend to spend your entire working life making money for somebody else? Why?
It’s time you invested in your most marketable product–yourself–and reaped …

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[19 Aug 2009 | No Comment | 581 views]
Jamba Juice – A Recipe for Success

Have you had a Jamba Juice? If you haven’t, then you’ve been living in a hole for quite some time! It’s kind of neat that 2 of the founders of Jamba Juice, Kevin Peters and Joe Vergara, were students and graduates of Cal Poly State University (the college I attend). The 3rd was Kirk Perron who was a young entrepreneur who graduated from Cuesta, a junior college near Cal Poly. Their very first store was known as the Juice Club and it opened in April 1990 on Foothill Boulevard near …