Tag: learning

Unscientific Research: Fix your wallet to fix your head to fix your wallet…

by Dan Waldschmidt on December 16, 2009, under At the Edge of Explosion

Do you have big dreams? For 2010?  For right now?

What you do, how far you succeed, what you achieve — they all come from what you think about. They all come from what you are thinking about RIGHT now

And here’s the kicker…… → more

 


The Hardest Sale of Your Life

by Dan Waldschmidt on December 01, 2009, under At the Edge of Explosion

I was in a conversation with a close friend last week about some serious matters when I just stopped everything I was talking about and simply summed it up by noting:

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Obsessively Searching for Stellar…

by Dan Waldschmidt on November 25, 2009, under At the Edge of Explosion

Many thanks to the dozens of you who have sent me kind messages over the last two weeks asking where The DEW View! had gone. 

Nowhere.

I just didn’t have → more

 

Stolen Shoes and Bad Movie Mojo

by Dan Waldschmidt on September 15, 2009, under At the Edge of Explosion

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Two stories.  One central theme.

It all started on Friday with a call from my friend, Jill Stelfox

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Myth: Thinking Actually Helps

by Dan Waldschmidt on August 07, 2009, under At the Edge of Explosion

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High-performers in the world of “deal making” share the universal quality of self-assessment. It’s an internal process of strategically measuring the inputs and outputs of a process or idea (or just “what went down…”) and deciding if it could be done better.  And that’s all good.  → more

 

Taking a Gut Punch

by Dan Waldschmidt on July 23, 2009, under At the Edge of Explosion

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Understanding “why” is a frustrating part of life and more specifically your sales negotiations. You can work your ass off, do a lot of things right, and still not get a deal done.

It’s a punch in the gut!

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Social Media is Crap

by Dan Waldschmidt on June 23, 2009, under At the Edge of Explosion

 

Sorry.  Can I just get that off my chest?  (of course I can, I write this thing) Â

Isn’t media by nature social?

  • a VHS tape when passed hand-to-hand → more
 

What's not being said….

by Dan Waldschmidt on June 15, 2009, under At the Edge of Explosion

I get asked all the time to take a look at a business plan or review a sales process (which I usually find intriguing).  There is something about a new idea with plenty of potential that gets me pumped up.

Not every investor is worth “getting in bed with” → more

 

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