Listen to Entire Born and Raised Album for Free
click here to go to the iTunes store and stream the record now. Pre-order if you dig it.
I listened to the record last Wednesday on my flight to Los Angeles. Gave it one more go round before it went out into the world… one last little listen as being just mine. It’s brought me so much joy and company and peace, and I hope it will do the same for you.
JM
cnbc:
No Job? No Problem. Why It’s a Good Time For Grads
Findings from a new AP report have worked college students, grads, their parents and, frankly, the entire country into a frenzy. It seems one in two new college grads—1.5 million total, or 53.6 percent of all bachelor’s degree-holders—are either jobless or underemployed.
To that I say… Great! Sounds like the opportunity of a lifetime. The job market might be a bust, but, right now, it’s never been easier, faster or cheaper to start a business. I should know — I did it myself.
These 10 pointers may help get you and your business off the ground:
1. Leave your ego at the door.
2. Remember that boring is better than sexy.
3. Use your age to your advantage.
4. Bootstrap. Ramen is good for you.
5. Think small.
6. Don’t write a phone book-sized business plan.
7. Skip the office.
8. Cut your “worst-case” financial scenario in half.
9. Avoid the wrong partners like the plague.
10. Expect—and embrace—failure.
History is never worth reading until it’s fifty years old.
The “Shadow Days” video is here!
CNBC: Next Instagram-Size Acquisition Could Be Tumblr
The tech sector has always been marveling around the heat that mergers and acquisitions have always fueled the industry with, but this week we heard some big news.
Many of us have heard about the $1 billion deal Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg made with Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom last week. There’s been a lot of hype over how fast Instagram’s growth has been increasing, and there’s always been hype over Facebook’s, so the news of these two firms joining hands isn’t difficult to see. But, what about Tumblr?
CNBC makes some great points about just how quickly social media start-ups are taking off (don’t think I forgot about Pinterest), but Tumblr doesn’t get a lot of attention and I don’t think many will refute that. Sure—the company’s target market is high school and college students between the ages of 12-24, but that’s a generation that makes a lot of dough.
Take Facebook for example. If that company didn’t start out with college students, what would happen? Would Facebook even be around? I don’t know, and I don’t think anyone will know because we already know what happened.
All I can say is that if I had to put my money on the next acquisition, I’d put it here.
How the Airport Experience Has Changed Since 9/11
I don’t think anyone’s going to be able to argue with any of the points that Baskas makes in this article, but what can we do about it? Is there any way to make the passenger experience at an airport enjoyable? I can’t picture an airport ever being a place where my mom or my girlfriend could come with me to the gate to say goodbye before I’d walk onboard. But then again, maybe I’m too young to realize that there was once a time when that was actually possible.
[higher education] can’t be a luxury; it is an economic imperative that every family in America should be able to afford.
John Mayer postpones Spring 2012 tour, granuloma returns
I have no idea how to introduce this post, so I’m skipping the first paragraph.
During rehearsal on Tuesday, it came to mind that I should see my throat doctor because something didn’t feel/sound right. I went in for a visit on Wednesday and a scope of my vocal cords revealed that the granuloma…
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