This is a post originally posted at bensaren.com.
My very first bank when I was a teenager was BayBank. A few years later BayBank merged with Bank of Boston, to form BankBoston. So then I was a BankBoston customer. Then came along Fleet Bank, who acquired BankBoston. Then I was a Fleet Bank customer. In [...]
Do you remember the first time you heard the word “no?” I doubt it. I certainly don’t. It’s a word we here often, daily perhaps, even more. Especially as children, we learn the word “no” almost immediately. “No” is a word we will hear for the rest of our lives. But very rarely is “no” [...]
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2009, you sucked! Good riddance to you! That was a horrible year that I just get sick thinking about. As it pertains business matters, it all started in late 2008, the second half of September to be precise, when the economy tanked. The entire country panicked, and the global economy didn’t respond [...]
Today is a special day for CitySquares. It was four years ago today that Bob and I launched the CitySquares.com website. We launched it with only 7 neighborhoods: Porter, Davis, Harvard, Central, Kendall, Union, and Inman. We actually held a launch party in Davis Square, invited local businesses, residents, artists, musicians and others to come [...]
Finally, someone is calling attention to those angel investor groups who charge entrepreneurs unfair amounts of money to pitch to them, and it’s not someone with a small microphone or with no following. Jason Calacanis has announced a “jihad”, as it seems, and is stirring things up. This topic is not a new one for many [...]
There’s been a bit of buzz in entrepreneurial communities about a recently released study released from The Kauffman Foundation titled, “The Anatomy of an Entrepreneur.” It’s available here. It’s worth the read. Entrepreneurs of all shapes and sizes will identify with some of the statistics, and find some quite surprising. It’s a decent report from [...]
Ah, decisions decisions. They never end in life, unless you just decide to spend your life as a lump on a log. But even then you still have to make decisions, starting with “I’m going to be a lump on a log.” If, however, you’ve chosen a life beyond lumping on a log, your life [...]
No, seriously. I can honestly say that I’m a happier human being because of my MacBook Pro. My entire life I’ve been very into art, music, and especially the digital forms of those things. So I guess in some respects I’ve always been somewhat of a closet artist, but hadn’t really found my medium yet. [...]
I’m posting this blog entry in two ways – video and the usual text blog entry. I thought I’d try this out and see how it goes. Please let me know your thoughts on all this, I’d love to hear from ya. Video is below, followed by the text.
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No doubt life is [...]
My first video blog. I think I’m going to start doing this more often. This is also a sort of response to Aaron Irizarry’s video entry, in which he also included me in his wrap up.
iPhone 3G: One Month Later
Migration from Drupal to Wordpress.com Complete
I’m a Happier Person, Thanks to My Mac
Entrepreneurial Lessons in 2009
Citysquares.com: Part 1
Boston Startups Looking for Office Space
The Best and Worst of Being an Entrepreneur
When the Going Get Tough…
Local 1.0
Talk is Cheap, Move your Money (Repost)
No
Entrepreneurial Lessons in 2009
Four Years
Angels are Good, Right?
The Anatomy of an Entrepreneur
Decisions, Decisions
I’m a Happier Person, Thanks to My Mac
When the Going Get Tough…
Passion
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