Archive for the ‘Business Thoughts’ Category

Setting Goals

Posted by: DJ Burdick on: January 6, 2009

Setting goals is easy and very effective, yet a lot of people tend to do it incorrectly. I set goals for each year and then review them every week and change/update them every month or so – that’s the idea anyway.
New years resolutions have become a bad joke. The new year is a great time [...]

Business – the ultimate game

Posted by: DJ Burdick on: September 14, 2008

All games in one
From the time I built my first business until now I’ve equated the process to playing an elaborate, ever-evolving game. When I think about building revenue, users and adding new features I can’t help but think of some of the more elaborate video games, like Final Fantasy, that I used to play [...]

Ideas are cheap

Posted by: DJ Burdick on: August 16, 2008

Having an idea is far from creating it

Everyone seems to have a business idea or money making scheme. A great example of this are Kramer’s ideas from Seinfeld. This seems to be even more common in the internet space. People have heard stories of the “.com millionaires” for years and want in on the [...]

A Fire in the Valley

Posted by: DJ Burdick on: July 31, 2008

“A fire in the valley.” That’s the vibe I get when I’m out here. And now that I’m living here, I’m loving it.
For simplicity sake, I consider anything from San Jose to San Francisco to be the Valley. But for me, it has nothing to do with the geography; it has [...]