Zvi Band

Category: Entrepreneurship

  • Driven.

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    “We’re willing to make less money than everybody else.” –Bob Nelson , VP of financial planning, Costco A La Fast Company…

  • Amazon Payments Service

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    This has been all over the major blogs today, so I am not going to blather too much about it, just give my opinion. Standing on one leg, Amazon now lets web developers add payment stuff to their site, so they can sell things. To me, this is a true game changer, especially for entrepreneurs.…

  • 100 Users!

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    Facebook Platform is awesome. Late one night, a couple months ago, my girlfriend and her best friend called me up with an idea for a Facebook application (this was just after the Facebook platform, a way for people to make mini-sites that live within Facebook and are used/shared by people with Facebook accounts). I initially…

  • On Entrepreneurship in DC

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    Living here for six years, I had never seen any kind of entrepreneurial community. After graduating, I kept up that assumption. And wow. I was so wrong. So very wrong. So unbelievably wrong. I’m an idiot. Too bad I found out about this too late so I’m on the waiting list, and for this I’ll…

  • Be Who You Are

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    Reb Zusha was on his death bed, and tears were streaming down his face. “Why are you crying?” asked his disciples. “If God asks me why I wasn’t like Moses or Maimonides,” answered Reb Zusha, “I’ll say, I wasn’t blessed with that kind of leadership ability and wisdom.” But I’m afraid of another question,” continued…

  • Quote of the Day

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    Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours is watching television. David Letterman US comedian & television host (1947 – ) What’s your purpose?

  • Passengers and Drivers

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    Haven’t posted in a while. I am going to make a point to try and make one post a day from now on, on something interesting in the news, a reaction to something I hear, or whatever randomly makes its way into the spongy stuff between my ears. The actual reason I have not posted…

  • All I see is changes….

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    Haven’t posted in a while. No excuses. Moving on. An absurd amount has been going on recently in my life. Besides working my tush off for my job (12 hour days are killer), I’ve been busy as hell in my free time as well….

  • Holding Me Back

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    After reading my late-night/morning round of e-mail, I went online and read a post listing five reasons to create a startup now. I’ve read tons of these, especially with all the Web 2.0 buzz flying around, which peaked just as I was graduating. And while every entrepreneurship blog post, news article, website, and book mentions…

  • The Motivation

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    In the course of finishing my education and entering the workforce, the dynamics of my life have changed dramatically. Besides diet/living situation/car/DEBT/money, it has been a welcome adjustment of the division between work and free time, and the stress associated with it.