Cultivating Ambition

May 07

The $300 Million Button -

How Changing a Button Increased a Site’s Annual Revenues by $300 Million

“My life has been a series of well-orchestrated accidents; I’ve always suffered from hallucinogenic optimism. I was broke for more than 10 years. I remember staying up all night one night at my first company and looking in couch cushions the next morning for some change to buy coffee.” — Evan Williams, CEO of Twitter

10 Ways to Build Traffic to Your Site -

10 Ways to Build Traffic to Your Site

By Azadeh Ensha

Ethnicity and the Internet

The Biggest Successes are Often bred from Failures -

Randy Komisar from VC Big Shots - Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers talks on how failures breed success.

Apr 13

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“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” — Steve Jobs

Entrepreneur Corner -

Stanford University’s free podcasts and video clips of entrepreneurial thought leaders and innovators from Silicon Valley.

Apr 10

Work Happy -

Work Happy is a great blog for entrepreneurs that I happened upon recently, be sure to give it a look.

Apr 09

8 Excellent Web Resources For Startups -

Finally, this article from one of the editors of Freelance Switch takes a different approach. It looks at some “online” resources for startups. These are the blogs and other web-only sources where you can get niche information from a variety of angles.