I have a lot of bad habits.  Just ask my wife.  From a 20 year nail biting stint to an internal clock that never seems to operate on time, I’ve collected a few bad habits.  But now, I’m graduating from a year long adventure in the UMKC Entrepreneurial Scholars program trying to create a startup [...]

I was just in the middle of an auditorium packed full of parents and medical students.  The last time I learned anything about medicine was in 1996 in high school biology class.  And 17 years later, this auditorium was the last place I expected to learn anything new. What was the event?  Match Day 2013. [...]

I’m just in the middle of writing a business plan.  I’ve been just in the middle of this task for the last 10 months.  Do you have a startup?  Probably, right?  It’s the new American status symbol, along with North Face jackets and Pebble watches. If there’s one thing I’ve learned over the last year, [...]

I think I can.  I think I can.  I think I can.  The Little Engine that Could.  It’s a book I read to my kids almost every night.  And after the 145th time reading it, you start to gloss over the meaning in the story.  You read the words and point at each and every [...]

I’m in a room at the Kansas City Public Library branch on the Plaza packed with over 200 people listening to Jerry Moran’s opening address at the Gigabit Challenge. What is the Gigabit Challenge?  An entrepreneurial competition hosted by Think Big in Kansas City that generated over 113 submissions from 9 counties.  What’s the Challenge?  [...]

#Gigabitcity.  Search for it on twitter.  You’ll read some amazing things Kansas Citians are planning for Google Fiber.  Google Fiber offers broadband service 100x faster than today’s broadband services. What in the world can you do with Google Fiber? Google Fiber isn’t about faster HD reruns of Sex and the City on Netflix or free [...]