Stephen Sammartino
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Start-ups and high school physics
Physics and business are more closely related than one would imagine. In fact, physics and start-ups have a ridiculously close relationship, which you should pay attention to. Some of the best lessons for any aspiring start-up can be taken from successful businesses. But in the very early days of your start-up, possibly the most value [...]
Inventing money
Entrepreneurship is about building finances conceptually. Entrepreneurs don’t buy something and wait for it to appreciate. They invent the future. Inventing has never been about being atechnical genius. It’s about creativity and having the tenacity to execute the vision. The great economist Adam Smith would use some verbose economic theory to describe the process, like [...]
Start-ups: Copy Cat
We’re taught from a very young age that copying lacks virtue and deserves some form of punishment. You could say it is viewed as a form of stealing. A start-up (or a business for that matter) is a complex set of interacting ideas and actions. Some of which may be original (your widget, website, [...]
Start-ups: Sell out
Do you have a grand vision of selling out to an incumbent? The type of deal that makes the front page of the daily business section? The reason you heard so much about Google buying YouTube is that it doesn’t happen very often. We all need this sense of reality before we commence. But [...]
Startups: Four start-up maxims
We don’t need to be revolutionaries to have a successful business. We could do something simple, like open a shop. But if we wanted to be ordinary, wouldn’t we be better off in a job somewhere? What if we truly want to change the world or be the next sell out story to some corporate [...]
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9 things a 9 month-old can teach you about online marketing [VIDEO]
This morning, I sat down with my 9-month old son, Julian, to feed him breakfast. This is one of the jobs allocated to me as a first-time, new father. Remembering the arduous steps required to complete yesterday morning’s meal (and the day before that), and contemplating how bizarre it is that I must work so hard to provide him something that will make him stronger and healthier and happier, I began to think about online marketing. Yes, the brain works in mysterious ways. (And I am kind of sleep deprived.)
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