Don't Try To Be Like Tim Ferriss

Don't Try To Be Like Tim Ferriss

Cr-runnnnk.  That's his neck.  On the mat.  Tim Ferriss is learning jiu-jitsu in front of the cameras.  It's part of his TV series, The Tim Ferriss Experiment, which his website describes as "Myth Busters meets Jackass."  In the show, Ferriss goes on difficult adventures, aiming to show that one can do a lot more than ... Read more...

Barry Shore's Business With a Purpose

Barry Shore's Business With a Purpose

One of the things frugalentrepreneur celebrates the most is the diversity in today’ssuccessful entrepreneurs.  A stereotype of entrepreneurs is the young man strutting around Silicon Valley and racking up hundreds of thousands of twitter followers. Today’s inspiring entrepreneur may be cut from a slightly different cloth.  Shore became an entrepreneur later in life, and has ... Read more...

The Zen of Parker Conrad

The Zen of Parker Conrad

You’re no stranger to entrepreneurs who got fired from one job before moving n to the startup that eventually made it rain cash.  Noah Kagan was let go by Facebook before going on to galactic success with AppSumo. Another person whose path was at least similar to that is Parker Conrad. The only thing that ... Read more...

Would You Send Anne Wojcicki Your DNA?

Would You Send Anne Wojcicki Your DNA?

If you knew just one thing about a woman, that she’d played ice hockey as a child, what might you guess about the path her life would take?  What would you focus on?  The athleticism?  The desire to, at least up to a point, break gender barriers?  The toughness?  The fearlessness? Perhaps it’s these last ... Read more...

Mubarak Muyika, The Next Bill Gates?

The list of entrepreneurs who didn’t graduate from college is not far the minds of most people in business.  It’s probably headed by Bill Gates, but it has a new member, Mubarak Muyika, founder and CEO of Zagace, an enterprise management platform.  Muyika founded his first company at age sixteen--and sold it for a tidy ... Read more...