The long tail is a well-recognized term and concept. Chris Anderson’s blog is a great, insightful read and in many ways inspirational to the scrappy, little blogger that could.
I often think of how the long tail concept applies to ideas. What happens during the validation process to see if an idea is worthwhile, and beyond that, when you’re actively working on an idea is the realization of new ideas.
So one idea begets another, which begets another, and so on. Ideas are points on a chain (or graph) not points in space with no reference or connection to anything else.
The long …read more

One of an entrepreneur’s fundamental characteristics is the need to create. When I asked some colleagues, “What is an Entrepreneur?” several of them touched on this point.
Shawn Hessinger took my question and posed it on his own blog, which itself is a great resource on bootstrapping startup businesses.
He received a couple responses, one of which was from Mark Seremet who wrote:
An entrepreneur is someone who loves to build things. She creates not just for the sake of creating but with the intention of getting her ideas efficiently to people willing to consume them. Entrepreneurs are driven not by money but …read more

Vernon Lun is a partner at TheGoodBlogs. He’s a veteran software engineer (if you look hard enough you’ll find that he calls himself, “A 40-something Knight of the Old Code”) with tons of big corporate experience.
And now he’s a bootstrapping, working like a maniac and lovin’ almost every minute of it, entrepreneur.
Vernon’s also a smart guy. Duh. He’s got a Ph.D. from the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. In his thesis he formulated a framework for distributed real-time intelligence. Whatch you talkin’ about Vernon?
Vernon and I sat down in the virtual world known as sending emails back and forth …read more