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Time Bankruptcy

As I prepared to travel earlier this week, I was thinking how a few days at home really wasn’t enough. May is just a hugely busy month on both the work and personal life front and some days it seems l… more →

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Time Bankruptcy

cbehrenbruch wrote 1 week ago: As I prepared to travel earlier this week, I was thinking how a few days at home really wasn’t enoug … more →

Tags: Idle Philosophy, on the road, Personal, Random, Arianna Huffington, Modern Life, Time Bankruptcy

I despise the term "Social Entrepreneurship"

cbehrenbruch wrote 1 week ago: This post begins what I have decided to affectionately call my “grumpy old man” series. … more →

Tags: Entrepreneurship, Idle Philosophy, Social commentary, capitalism, Conscious Capitalism, philanthrophy, Social Entrepreneurship

Public research institutions in Australia give me "NICTAtion" — 3 comments

cbehrenbruch wrote 4 weeks ago: (Nictation = an involuntary eye “tic” … perhaps suggestive of excessive irritation … more →

Tags: Entrepreneurship, technology, broadband economy, BRW, CSIRO, equity participation, ict, NBN, NICTA

It's not clever to put "Silicon" in front of your local landmark... and call it a tech hub

cbehrenbruch wrote 2 months ago: I’ve been enjoying a fair amount of blowback from a recent entrepreneurship article I wrote fo … more →

Tags: Entrepreneurship, Idle Philosophy, technology, Silicon Valley, Vodka, Silicon Alley, Silicon Allee, silicon roundabout, Silicon Flatirons

Business and Friendship Don't Mix — 1 comment

cbehrenbruch wrote 2 months ago: Over the years I’ve been involved in launching a fair number of start-ups, either as the innov … more →

Tags: Entrepreneurship, Idle Philosophy, Social commentary, Entrepreneurs, Lending Money, Friendship, Business

Marissa Mayer Should Step Down from Yahoo! — 2 comments

cbehrenbruch wrote 2 months ago: I’ll start by saying that I don’t know Marissa as a person, I’ve never met her … more →

Tags: Idle Philosophy, on the road, Social commentary, technology, CEO, Family Life, Google, Marissa Meyer, sunnyvale

Boozonomics 101 — 2 comments

cbehrenbruch wrote 2 months ago: Every once in a while I see a data set somewhere online or in a newspaper that captures my attention … more →

Tags: Idle Philosophy, Random, Social commentary, Alcohol, Beautiful Women, Beer, booze, Koreans, OECD

Fatherhood Makes Better Executives

cbehrenbruch wrote 3 months ago: Firstly, I’ll apologize to any women reading this. I can only speak from my personal vantage and hen … more →

Tags: Personal, Idle Philosophy, Social commentary, Family, Entrepreneurship, Fatherhood, Executives

The Biggest Mistake Entrepreneurs Make

cbehrenbruch wrote 3 months ago: I’m not ashamed of my failures and – with enough time – I’ve even been able … more →

Tags: Entrepreneurship, Idle Philosophy, technology, Entrepreneurs, Value inflection, down round, Financing, Start Ups, vcs

The Mythology of Airline Loyalty

cbehrenbruch wrote 3 months ago: I consider myself to be the perfect customer to reflect on airline loyalty. I fly at least 250-300,0 … more →

Tags: Idle Philosophy, on the road, Random, American Airlines, Beer, Crap Airline Food, Delta, emirates, Eyeshades

Japanese Toilets Rock — 1 comment

cbehrenbruch wrote 3 months ago: Japan is quite possibly my favorite nation on Earth (after my beloved Australia). I think the people … more →

Tags: technology, Social commentary, Japan, Design, Toilets, toto, tokyo, Tsukuba, osaka

The Difference Between Canadians and Americans — 1 comment

cbehrenbruch wrote 3 months ago: This last weekend I briefly passed through Montreal on my way to meetings in Washington DC. I had a … more →

Tags: Idle Philosophy, on the road, Social commentary, Canada, america, Citizenship, montreal, Peace Arch, Passport

America needs to find its mojo again

cbehrenbruch wrote 3 months ago: When my entrepreneurial life started in about 1999, the US was THE place to go and do business in ou … more →

Tags: Entrepreneurship, Idle Philosophy, Social commentary, obama, GOP, GFC, global financial crisis, SME, tarp

An MBA is just a life choice

cbehrenbruch wrote 4 months ago: I never thought I would write a blog post about doing an MBA, but I read an article the other day on … more →

Tags: Personal, Idle Philosophy, Social commentary, Education, MBA, NYU, Wharton, harvard, Duke

The Year of the Great Unfriending...

cbehrenbruch wrote 4 months ago: I’m intrigued by social media and some of the technologies and data-driven applications that a … more →

Tags: Personal, Idle Philosophy, technology, Social commentary, facebook, twitter, LinkedIn, Lady Gaga, social networking

And so it Begins... — 1 comment

cbehrenbruch wrote 4 months ago: Welcome to my blog. This is my first entry and I’m pretty excited about it. I decided that I n … more →

Tags: Personal, Random, behrenbruch, blogs, Entrepreneurship


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