I wasn't sure what to expect when I received the invitation to attend last night's Startups.com Founders Dinner from their COO (who is also one of my childhood friends), Elliot Schneier. I have known Elliot for years and met Startups CEO, Wil Schroter, about 15 years ago when he had just purchased SwapALease. Although I had tracked Startups from a distance, it wasn't until recently that I visited their office and learned more about their various businesses. When I arrived t

I didn't get into reading business books until my early thirties. This was about the time that I realized that I didn't know shit about shit

Back in 1996, I really, really wanted that Mitsubishi 3000GT... but I had no idea the valuable lessons that I would learn along the way to buying it. When I was about 14 years old, my dad told me that he would help me buy the car of my choice as long as I paid for half. I'm not sure that he knew what he had agreed to at the time. Shortly thereafter, I taught myself how to install car stereos, with a focus on sub boxes that made cars and neighborhoods shake. Yes, I was the guy