21 July 2010 View Comments

Josh James of Omniture speaks to his alma mater

I’m a big fan of suc­cess­ful entre­pre­neurs who visit schools and play a big role in the entre­pre­neur­ship classes. I recently watched this video of Josh James going back to Brigham Young and shar­ing some insights. Here are some of the tid­bits I took out of it:
Josh dropped out of school, but took the most out […]

10 April 2010 View Comments

On Passion, Persistence and Perseverance

Talk about sub­lim­i­nal mes­sag­ing.
Oddly enough, in my daily recap to the day, I con­tin­u­ously saw reminders to never give up, that per­sis­tence is the single-most impor­tant trait for an entre­pre­neur and a human being.
This isn’t a rev­o­lu­tion­ary notion. Don’t give up. For most of us, our par­ents tried to indoc­tri­nate us with this very phi­los­o­phy from […]