Posts by Tom Koulopoulos
The One Key to Success That Nobody Teaches You
Of all the things we do to ensure our success, one is more important than all else, and yet it’s only learned in the school of hard knocks. There are uncountable books on how to succeed in business, and all of them have something to teach. From being an efficient operator to being a great…
Read MoreHere is Why You Shouldn’t Change the Past Even If You Could
The Temptation To Reignite The Past Pulls At Us All, But Here’s Why Giving In To It Undermines Your Success Ok, time for some brutal honesty. Answer truthfully, how many times in the past week did you catch yourself saying something along the lines of, “If only I had done X back then, I’d be…
Read MoreOnly A True Entrepreneur Will Agree With This Quote
Defining who is and who isn’t an entrepreneur may be subject to debate by academics and pundits, but if you get this quote you’re one of us. “It’s better to burn out, Than to fade away” — Neil Young, from his song “Into The Black” When I was in the throws of building my company…
Read MoreThe End Of The Digital Revolution Is Coming: Here’s What’s Next
The next era of computing will stretch our minds into a spooky new world that we’re just starting to understand. In 1946 the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, or the ENIAC, was introduced. The world’s first commercial computer was intended to be used by the military to project the trajectory of missiles, doing in a…
Read MoreOne Quote That Every Entrepreneur Must Embrace
The focus on being a billon-dollar unicorn distracts us from an even more important kind of value that companies of every size need to embrace. We live in the age of the unicorn; startups that seem to leap to billion dollar valuations overnight. It’s a wonderful time to be an entrepreneur. The upside has never…
Read MoreAre You Living Your Life In Your Own Way?
Success can be measured in many ways, but ultimately this is the only measure that really matters. There’s a small wooden plaque that hangs on the door of my study at home. It reads, “There’s only one success; to live your life in your own way.” It was given to me by a college girlfriend.…
Read MoreJeff Bezos $100 Billion Bet For Amazon’s Future
Bezos has announced an out of this world initiative that may well eclipse everything else Amazon has done so far and may turn out to be one of humanity’s most ambitious technological achievements. One of the things that’s always struck me as the largest untapped opportunity for Internet enabled business, commerce, and humanity is the…
Read MoreLessons in Leadership from Ross Perot
The most important lessons of leadership came from the man behind the larger-than-life personality. In 2003, I sold a company to Perot Systems, the large IT services firm started by Ross Perot, where I then worked for the next four years. Although at that time Perot was chairman and eventually became chair emeritus, his personal…
Read MoreA Piece of Trash with Four Simple Words Changed My Life and Maybe Yours Too
While there may be no one secret to living a meaningful life, this simple piece of advise definitely holds the key to unlocking some of life’s secrets. I must tell you at the outset that I am an avowed disbeliever when it comes to people professing that they have found the secret to living a…
Read MoreOne Toxic Personality Every Innovator and Entrepreneur Must Avoid
You know you’re out to beat the odds, but being reminded of it is the last thing you need. You don’t like the norm; by definition, entrepreneurs strive to step outside of it. They break free of what’s typical and expected. Instead they venture into the unknown to create something that people don’t yet know…
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