Category: Entrepreneurship

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Ten out of Ten (A System for winning)

How do you guarantee a 100% hit rate?

Watch this video:

Can it be?  Is there a system for winning?  Well, yes.  But this is not the whole story.  I’ve been fascinated, since being a music student in collage, with system thinking.  Back then it was my contention; and it still is, that the code to The Beatles songwriting can be cracked.  It can be analyzed and replicated.  

So here is how the system works: 

Maybe Daren took the metaphor too far and then I ran with it.    At DCL it is my pet subject “to recognize the patterns”  …  “to game the system” …”to find a shortcut to making videos trend“….

One can definitely do most of the heavy lifting with one’s mind.

(By the way, here are one of the songs made with the mentioned “system”.    Not based on the Beatles algorithm, but on the rock anthems from the 70s through the 90s.    Let me know what you think.)

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Money Made Us Lazy

This post is  an amalgamation of conversations I had over the last few months with potential partners in the sister company LUPR .

Uniquely, this tech venture, LUPR does not need any (more) monetary investment.   What it does need is capital in expertise,  leadership, intelligence, initiative, etc..

Maybe it’s  this novel approach in asking for help in advice and mentorship,  that have almost every last one of the handful of people I offered the partnership to so skeptical.   In their own ways each said;  what basically comes down to: I will invest money,  but can not get otherwise involved.

Is entrepreneurship dead?  Did money make us so lazy that we expect it to roll up it’s sleeves and do the work for us?  Can money think and make discussions?   Are people so afraid to try and fail that they would rather have the buffer of money to blame if things don’t go right right-away? 

My contention is that the modern entrepreneur is lazy, cowardice and decadent.  Change my mind.