From Jason Alba (al - buh)
October 6, 2011 at 8:30 am
When I started JibberJobber, there really wasn’t any competition. I’d get on the phone with a career center and they’d say “wow, that is brilliant!!”
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From Jason Alba (al - buh)
October 5, 2011 at 9:14 am
My five year old daughter couldn’t stop singing this phrase over the weekend:
I KNOW A SONG THAT GETS ON EVERYBODY’S … NOSE, EVERYBODY’S NOSE, EVERYBODY’S ... (
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From Jason Alba (al - buh)
October 4, 2011 at 9:11 am
Every once in a while I find a gem that is hiding in plain site. Here’s one I read this morning on a TC post:
… Heiferman jumped back into the startup scene with ... (
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From Jason Alba (al - buh)
October 3, 2011 at 9:54 am
I’m working on my fourth book (I know, I know, I swore off books after the first one!), which I’ll announce shortly.
As I research, and read the news, I like to find ... (
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From Jason Alba (al - buh)
September 30, 2011 at 1:20 pm
I think this happened in January of 2011, but it could have been 2010. News story here.
I remember reading about it in the newspapers… when four Wal-Mart employees had a ... (
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From Jason Alba (al - buh)
September 20, 2011 at 4:14 pm
I think about these things a lot, especially when I’m speaking. I think “my heavens, I need a new email signature.”
Why?
Because the current one isn’t ... (
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From Jason Alba (al - buh)
September 19, 2011 at 6:43 pm
My friend Shauna K. brought this amazing spread with some fresh garden tomatoes to a dinner. I couldn’t get enough. Shauna is one of the healthiest eaters I know… ... (
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From Jason Alba (al - buh)
August 30, 2011 at 1:19 pm
The last few days we had some painters in our home, painting a lot of stuff. What I thought would take me a few days of after-work hours turned into more than 50 man-hours for ... (
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From Jason Alba (al - buh)
August 18, 2011 at 10:38 am
I just got this email from my Uncle. I don’t know the source, or how accurate it is, but it made me think. Some quick thoughts:
First, I don’t like to talk about religion ... (
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From Jason Alba (al - buh)
August 15, 2011 at 6:24 pm
When I started getting into finances and accounting in Eight Lunches, I got nervous.
I honestly don’t like this type of attention to detail.
I have a professional bookkeeper/accountant ... (
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From Jason Alba (al - buh)
August 4, 2011 at 8:30 am
I’m toying around with changing some visual elements of one web page (not a website), and I found some AMAZING tools:
Color Scheme Designer: This helps you see what colors ... (
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From Jason Alba (al - buh)
August 3, 2011 at 1:29 pm
I just saw a link to a Harvard Business Review article by Jerry Weissman titled In Presentations, Kill Your Darlings.
I’ve talked a lot about being “concise,” ... (
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From Jason Alba (al - buh)
July 19, 2011 at 10:55 am
Paul Copcutt, personal branding speaker and consultant, sent a link to a group I’m in to The Examined Practice, a post by Alan Weiss with a number of tough questions everyone ... (
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From Jason Alba (al - buh)
July 13, 2011 at 4:08 pm
I just finished the second draft of Eight Lunches. Whew.
If you want to review it, leave a comment here and I’ll email it to you.
Here are the instructions for the review:
I’m ... (
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From Jason Alba (al - buh)
July 11, 2011 at 12:12 pm
In November I bought a projector from Electrocloseout for presentations… I was uber-excited about it because, well, real companies have presentation projectors, right?
It ... (
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From Jason Alba (al - buh)
July 11, 2011 at 12:03 pm
On our road trip we stayed with family in Midland, Texas. When I was a kid I caught some horned toads (aka, horny toads, which are some of the coolest lizards in the world) there, ... (
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From Jason Alba (al - buh)
June 28, 2011 at 6:35 pm
Kid1: “hey, respect your elders, yo!”
Kid 2: “But I’m older than you…!
Kid 1: “Yeah, but I’m your UNCLE!”
… good point, I ... (
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From Jason Alba (al - buh)
June 21, 2011 at 8:56 am
Here’s a short-but-good post from Fred Wilson on how to get financing for your new business.
Many new entrepreneurs think they should start out at a certain point – ... (
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From Jason Alba (al - buh)
May 31, 2011 at 1:06 pm
Here’s a new thing I’ve seen in spam recently:
1. This is the first email I’ve noticed where they CUSTOMIZE the dormant account holder. Normally it is a deceased ... (
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From Jason Alba (al - buh)
May 10, 2011 at 8:55 am
Monday I gave feedback to Brad Merrill about HOW he let others know about his blog… today I want to write about a blog post (his second post).
Brad titled the post What is ... (
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From Jason Alba (al - buh)
May 9, 2011 at 8:50 am
My friend Brad Merrill took the plunge and started a blog.
It has the potential to be an awesome personal branding tool for himself, and I applaud what he’s doing.
This is ... (
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From Jason Alba (al - buh)
April 29, 2011 at 11:57 am
Last night in family prayer my wife gave thanks for a “miraculous event.”
My first thought was that it was a miracle that such event was going to take place, because ... (
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From Jason Alba (al - buh)
April 20, 2011 at 9:25 pm
Today I was in a mastermind meeting for a few hours and set up my work station… didn’t even think twice about it until my colleague (Mitch Seehusen), from across the ... (
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From Jason Alba (al - buh)
April 9, 2011 at 6:27 pm
I’m sitting on my couch plucking away on a Microsoft 6000 keyboard I just got in the mail, writing this on my iPad 2.
I feel like I’m such a techie, although in reality ... (
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From Jason Alba (al - buh)
April 5, 2011 at 10:50 am
Today I started piano lessons with my 13 year old daughter.
That is, SHE is teaching me.
Considering she’s been playing since she was 3 (see a cool song she self-taught herself ... (
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