While studying at his parents house in London, Nick D’Aloisio came up with a brilliant idea to create a revolutionary app by the name of Summly which changes the way that you read your favorite websites and social media feeds. This idea scored this 16 year-old genius a flight to New York and some serious money in the bank as a result of an official partnership with the eleventh wealthiest billionaire in the world, Li Ka-Shing who will be overlooking the production and release of this app.

Read on to see how Nick D’Aloisio was able to achieve such a great feat at the fresh young age of 16.

Many young entrepreneurs say they want to create the next Facebook, 16-year-old Nick D’Aloisio wants to solve the problem social networks have created in the first place.

The teenager built an iPhone app called Summly, which automatically generates summaries in the form of bullet points to help you filter through all that information.

With more than $250,000 in seed funding from Hong Kong billionaire businessman Li Ka-shing, D’Aloisio spent the last six months in his parents’ London house building Summly.

It was Sunday at 4 a.m. London time when D’Aloisio enthusiastically IMed me over AOL Messenger to make sure the news of his app made it to my Twitter stream. He was excited that 23,000 people have downloaded the app since it launched last week.

D’Aloisio was inspired to build the app after he signed up for Twitter, and got a flood of information from AP, Reuters, and other people’s Twitter handles.

Interested in finding out more about D’Aloisio, we called him to ask him about this machine learning technology and how he balances his startup with school work. We could hear his faint Australian accent — he’s originally from Perth, Western Australia, (wow, this is where Joel Brown from Addicted2Success.com is from

Nick D’Aloisio – The Boy Genius Of Summly

Interview With Nick D’Aloisio

Boonsri Dickinson: How do you see the future of search and the Internet?

Nick D’Aloisio:  Consumers want information instantaneously and the search interface needs to accommodate this.

We don’t need more social networks. The new wave of technology will now stop encouraging content creation. Twitter and Facebook is enough…we have too much information. We need to try to filter the content and make it more digestible. Zite and Flipboard attempt to provide the user with the content.

We want people to use Summly once they have found content they are interested in or know what they are searching for.

BD: So how did the app evolve into what it is today?

Nick: Six months ago, we released something called Trimit. It was about content creation. It was a more gimmicky app, where you’d input an article and summarize to 140 characters for Twitter or other restrictions for Tumblr, Facebook, and email. But I found that people were using for consuming content.

Trimit taught me people want content consumption tools not content creation. Now with Summly, you can have a computer to aid that process.

BD: What’s the market for it?

Nick: It’s Cliff Notes for a mobile device. It takes a second to return any search result.

It’s a bit magical. People don’t believe what it can do, then they have a “wow” moment. You can share the summary. You can quickly evaluate the content now.

In the future, it can be applied to email. It’s easy to train it for colloquial language used in email. And eventually it can be used in other areas such as enterprise, consumer markets, and education. We will probably license the technology though monthly fees.

BD: How did you learn to program at age 12?

Nick: Books. C For Dummies. Online Tutorials. Trial and Error.

The first app I built was called Facemood when I was 14. It automatically deduced the mood of a Facebook friend using their latest Facebook status.

Even now, I’m not that confident. As I said I prefer the graphical/product aspect.

BD: What do your classmates think of you?

ND: I’m in year 11 here. I just turned 16 in November.  I hope they just think I’m a nice guy. You wouldn’t know I do this stuff. I’m really happy with the response I’ve been getting. People are amazed.

With all that, I don’t feel like I need to change my life in any way. I play sport — rugby and cricket. And I go out.

I work on the app when I can from like 9-11 pm. And on Sundays. Between school work. It’s pretty hectic.

BD: Who inspires you?

ND: Anyone who is crazy enough to create what’s in their mind. Steve Jobs for his obsession with attention to detail and his advice on failure and success. I’m inspired by designers and typography designers. And innovators like Sergey Brin and Larry Page, the founders of Google, and Jack Dorsey and the other founders of Twitter.

BD: What’s next for you?

ND: I still have three years left of schooling and plan to continue with my education into university, where I hope to study a combination of philosophy and economics, and perhaps continue learning Mandarin. I learn Mandarin because I’m interested in Chinese culture and enjoy languages.

Now, check out more about the app in this video:

Introduction Of Summly

Interview By Boonsri Dickinson from BusinessInsider.com

You may know Tony Robbins as The Worlds #1 Peak Performance Coach, a lot of us in fact look up to Tony Robbins and admire this mans passion, drive and enthusiasm to coach hundreds of millions of people to live a happy and successful life.

I have been following Tonys work for years now but have only recently really understood where he started out and how his life was before the glitz and the glamour.

For Anthony Robbins, it was not all that easy to get where he is today. His rise to the top began in a place where many people struggle to pursue their dreams.

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Celebrities have their own Twitter accounts, Facebook pages, Google+ accounts, and even more. These social media platforms help celebrities engage with the fans while helping themselves build their own brands across the internet. Since these celebrities don’t have time to log in to each and every one of these accounts to post and update a photo, then who is? Well, for Lil Wayne, it’s this young tech saavy individual, digital hustler ‘Mazy Kazerooni‘. Here’s how he did it, and did it successfully.

Mazy Kazerooni – Lil Waynes Social Media & Digital Hustler

Lil Wayne released his new album, Tha Carter IV, [2 weeks ago]. It’s been more than three years since his last official, full-length album, the triple-platinum-selling, Grammy-winning Tha Carter III. During the drought Lil Wayne had various legal issues and served eight months in prison. But his fan base has continued to grow, thanks to his digital strategy. Part of that is providing his fans with a steady stream of leaked songs and guest verses on other musicians’ songs, but the other part comes from his Facebook fan manager — 21-year-old Mazy Kazerooni.

In some ways, Kazerooni is your typical tech startup prodigy. He left high school at age 17 to work for a live video streaming platform called Ustream.

“Ustream gave me a very interesting perspective,” Kazerooni says. “When you see how many viewers somebody can get on a live video stream, you can really understand how connected they are to their fans, how many they have, how much they love them. It’s a lot harder to get 10,000 people to watch you at the same time then it is to get 10,000 views on a YouTube video.”

Kazerooni initially set out to lure big name rappers like Lil Wayne into using the site to reach their fans. But then it turned into a side hustle—working as Lil Wayne’s digital consultant, helping to grow the rapper’s presence on social media platforms beyond Ustream.

“He had a million fans sitting on his page, and no one had access to it,” explains Kazerooni. “No one even really knew what Facebook was, on his team. I had to argue with them for like a month to give me the information I needed to get the access.”

Kazerooni multiplied the number of fans on the page to 30 million in a little over a year.

“Now, there’s a lot of attention being paid to what’s happening online,” he says.

Joanna Dorfman is the site editor at Ustream, the startup that gave Kazerooni his first job. Kazerooni built buzz for the site by pursuing all kinds of celebrities, from bloggers to musicians, as some of its first users. He pumped up their live broadcasts on Ustream’s Twitter feed. He’d slip into their chat rooms and offer tech support when they hit a glitch.

“I heard ‘entrepreneurial spirit’ being thrown around a lot, as a phrase, but I didn’t really see an illustration of what that meant until I met Mazy. He has it,” says Dorfman.

You might not expect rappers to swoon over someone like Kazerooni, a baby-faced Persian American from Orange County who didn’t grow up listening to rap. But in videos posted to their Ustream channels, popular rappers like Wiz Khalifa and Lil Bow Wow sing Kazerooni’s praises.

“I appreciate you, Mazy. You’re like the Ustream Jesus, man, you really is. You just come out of nowhere and aaahhh…you’re just going to help every celebrity on that Ustream,” Bow Wow says.

Arguably, the celebrity Kazerooni’s helped the most is his client Lil Wayne. As the Facebook page manager, Kazerooni strategically re-posts Lil Wayne’s Twitter commentary, as well as announcements about the rapper’s whereabouts.

“While he was in jail, we had an address so people could send him letters,” Kazerooni says. “He’d write back to some of these letters. I would post all that stuff on Facebook. We just kept everyone engaged throughout the whole process.”

That active engagement proves those 30 million fans aren’t idly watching the page. And this means the page is ripe for merchandising. Few of those posts contain product mentions, but the ones that do are moneymakers.

“I do everything the management needs to make sure we’re selling his products without bothering the fans,” Kazerooni says.

Wayne’s summer tour is promoted on his wall mostly by namechecking cities. A shoutout, for example, to Atlanta, can inspire some 7,000 comments. Wayne also hawks a brand of vanity cigars, and when Kazerooni occasionally posts about them on the page, local markets sell out.

He even won the page a Guinness World Record for the most “Likes” on a post in 24 hours.

Peter Vesterbacka the creator of the phenomenal Mobile Game, Angry Birds. Peter Vesterbacka talks of the high-flying success in the app industry and what it really takes to be successful in a digital world. With over 250 Million downloads of the app and over 200 Million Minutes of logged game play a day, Angry Birds is one of a kind.

Peter Vesterbacka did not treat this like a disposable app, he focuses on customer retention and will release updates for his loyal uses very regularly. Watch this video for the very informative interview with Peter Vesterbacka.

Peter Vesterbacka – The Mighty Eagle Behind Angry Birds

Stylish attire and up to date fashion is an important factor to a lot of people in this day and age and being stylish and fashionable in sleepwear is no exception!  Peter Alexander is a true entrepreneur and founder of the infamous, Peter Alexander Sleepwear!  Peter grew the company from a single man operation on a living room table to an internationally recognized sleepwear business and multi-million dollar brand name.
At age 24, having worked for four years in the retail industry, Peter Alexander decided it was time to be his own boss. Identifying a gap in the market when his female friends were unable to find comfortable women’s pyjamas that weren’t flannelette nighties or lacy lingerie styles, Peter decided to establish his own business.

With the support of his parents, Peter Alexander began making women’s pyjamas for the wholesale market, working from his mother’s living room table. He worked like this for four years and in the early days was the only person working in the company. When the phone rang, in order to make the business seem bigger, Peter would pretend to be someone else.

During this time, many people tried to discourage Peter because he had no formal training and no business experience. However when a department store cancelled an order for 2000 pairs of pyjamas, Peter’s biggest setback became his biggest opportunity. In desperation, Peter put a mail order advertisement in Cleo magazine. The response was overwhelming and Peter was flooded with 6000 orders from one advertisement. Since then, he hasn’t looked back.

Voted the least likely to succeed at school, Peter Alexander’s teacher suggested he leave and go to TAFE. Peter didn’t like being told what to do and decided to stay at school anyway. He successfully completed Year 12 and says this is what gave him the confidence to believe in himself and trust in his own abilities and decisions. This goes to show that as long as you believe and have faith in yourself you can achieve anything no matter what others throw your way!

Peter Alexander’s only regret about his education is that he didn’t do a business course. ‘As a result I didn’t make any money from my business for seven years because I didn’t know what I was doing’ he says.

Peter believes that goal setting is a very important aspect to success and people with high goals have far more chance of achieving them, than people with lower goals or no goals at all.

A few years ago, having felt he had taken the business as far as he could, Peter sold Peter Alexander Sleepwear to Just Jeans for an undisclosed sum. At the time of sale, the business was making $6 million per year and growing by 40% each year. Part of Peter’s arrangement with Just Jeans is that he continues to run Peter Alexander sleepwear for five years. He currently manages the company and employs eight full time staff and twenty casual staff

The Ultimate Australian Success story – listen to Peter talk about setbacks and success in this 2 part video

(Audio) Peter Alexander – My Multi Million Dollar Sleepwear Success

Grammy Award Winning Artist Bruno Mars is on this months cover of Billboard Magazine as he shares with everyone his experiences of being dropped from a major record label, being caught with cocaine, his take on success and who he wants to work with in the future. Read the Qs & As after the jump.

On getting dropped by his first label, Universal Motown

Bruno Mars - I wasn’t ready for it. I did nothing. And the lesson was — why are you waiting for someone to come and write a song with you? You know how to play the freakin’ guitar. Do it on your own.

“There was a lot of rejection. A lot of other labels saying, ‘You don’t know who the hell you are. You’re doing all this reggae, R&B, rock stuff. How the hell do we market that? Are you pop? Are you urban?’ Elektra gave me a shot and trusted my vision.”

On how he became a songwriter first

Bruno Mars – Brandon [Creed, then VP of A&R at Epic Records] was always saying, ‘You need a story. You need to be in the studio writing for people.’ At the time I was like, ‘You’re crazy. I’m amazing!’ But he was absolutely right. Working and interacting with other artists and being so involved with the business aspect; understanding A&R, understanding radio, understanding music videos meant that when it came to my time, I’d seen how it goes.”

On being caught with cocaine

Bruno Mars – It’s something that I wish would go away. It’s a cloud that constantly follows me no matter how many achievements. I’d like to move on. To show that I’m here for my music. Not to be in a tabloid.

On his success

Bruno Mars – It’s a rare thing that happens, especially in this day, where it’s real hard to sell albums. I’m traveling to places that I’ve never even heard of and there are all these people singing the songs back — and English is not even their first language. It’s like, what the hell happened?

On who he would like to work with in the near future

Bruno Mars – I’m just a mixed-up dude. I want to work with the Kanyes, the Jay-Zs… a Rihanna, a Gaga, Kings of Leon, Mumford & Sons. I want to do all those things. As proud as I am of “Doo-Wops,” I feel like, ‘Oh, man. People haven’t seen nothing. They don’t even know what I’m about to do,’ and that’s what I can’t wait to show the world.

Words of Wisdom for Artists

Bruno Mars – “When people fall is when they’re like, ‘OK. Now I’m here, what’s next? A clothing line?’ That’s not what I’m trying to do. It’s like, ‘Don’t be a s***. Remember your dream. Do your music and keep it special.’”

Checkout Bruno Mars & Travie McCoys Inspirational Song  “Billionaire” (The Acoustic Version)

Anthony Robbins gives “The Hour” his Best Story Ever, he shares with you how suprised he was to find out that he inspired a pimp to reach his riches and mack his b#!ches, funny story right here. It goes to show how influential this #1 peak performance coach can be.

Has Tony Robbins changed your life for the best? If so comment below and share your story.

Tony Robbins – Best Story Ever – Inspired a Pimp!

Morten Lund is a Danish entrepreneur and seed investor. Also known as the superstar investor behind Skype and a number of other well known companies. Driven by the will to create new ventures, Morten Lund has co-founded more than 50 high-tech start-ups in the most varied industries, ranging from Internet, health and travel to alternative energy.

In 2003, he invested in his so far most successful project: the online communication software Skype which has over 600 million users today.
Not averse of taking risks, Morten Lund bought the heavily indebted Danish free daily newspaper Nyhedsavisen in 2006, with the ambitious goal of making it profitable again. Despite of the newspaper becoming the most read in Denmark, the project failed and he had to declare bankruptcy in early 2009. Morten Lund will teach you about the successes and failures of entrepreneurship and prepare you for the real world and what to avoid with investing real money in start-ups.

Morten Lund: The Life Of An Entrepreneur

Also, Checkout this speech by Morten Lund shortly after he went Bankrupt, it puts alot into perspective on how hard things can be as an Entrepreneur and the importance of never giving up:

Morten Lunds Bankrupt Speech:

Morten Lund lays down some advice to Entrepreneurs for 2012:

Dont Be Fooled By The Few Successes

Dear Highly Valued reader – and potential entrepreneurs of the 2011 class. I know that Im one of the most intensive promoters of entrepreneurial lifestyle in the techworld. Ups and Downs – Good and Bad – Fantastic and Horrible. I know a lot you highly valued readers are either entreprenuers – who reads my bullshit – just to get confirmed that there are people more crazy then you. Or you are wannabees who just flirt with the idea – or you are just about to jump into it…

Valuation Hysteria Is Coming

I feel that I have to state it AGAIN: It takes about 5 years and its seldomly without profit you can sell companies for sky high numbers – and get a chance to be called an over night succes…

Im working more then ever -
and I feel more successful then ever.
And I think the technology entrepreneurs are having a better time then ever.

But be careful – we are on a direct path to a new tech hysteria – Facebook and Groupon drives it  - these companies are historically growth monsters breaking all existing rules for generating growth and profits. And they inspire thousands of people to go into tech ventures*. AND ITS GREAT – the Kaufamann Foundation points at entrepreneurs and entreprenuership driving nearly all Jobs Creation in the US. We need Startups to create those jobs – to preserve the biggest luxury we dont remember on daily basis: Social Stability in many many countries. But.

But There Is A But

But Twitter (and Skype) is planting a dangerous virus in the new coming entrepreneurs heads.

But I have to warn all the startups who thinks HAVING NO REVENUE MODEL LIKE TWITTER is a way to build a company. A company has to make CASH – one way or the other…

Its VERY SELDOM that a company can be sold on promise, idea, user base or disruption alone. Write it on your laptop!

Thats it

I still recommend everyone who gets goosebumps – when they visualise a day where they have their own company – and decide themselves what to do – and work on exactly what they love to do! But remember its shit hard – and you still have to do a lot of household stuff – like taking out the garbage and deal with crazy good competitors from the whole world… Its not heaven – but its close – and I love it. LOVE IT. Its takes just in between 5years and a lifetime to make it. Just get used to it – you probably have to be a bit crazy – look who is writing.

*The Social Network (the movie) – is one big promotion and vocabulary on building a company and reaching the skies – of course also showing that capitalism is hardcore. But get used to it – its insanely competitive.

Source: Morten Lunds Website: www.lundxy.com

Michael Arrington, the Owner & Founder of the 3rd biggest Technology Blog “TechCrunch.com” boasts an annual earning of $10 Million a year of Revenue from his successful tech blog through advertisements and endorsement deals. Michael Arrington is known for his no bars held style, speaking his mind wherever he goes.  Even to this day Michael Arrington contributes articles and his time to Techcrunch.com with over 5 Million Subscribers and 30 Million monthly page views.

There is no doubt Michael Arrington knows what to do and how to do it when it comes to Successful Blogging. Checkout this Video and Interview with Michael Arrington on becoming a Successful Internet Entrepreneur.

Interview with Mike Arrington of TechCrunch.com

Michael Arringtons Story

Michael Arrington - I wake up in a pissed-off mood. I’m not a morning person. And I usually wake up to emergencies—an e-mail or a text message saying, “Oh, my God! Something big is happening! How could you not have written about this yet?’

If news is breaking, I want to be on it. We break more big stories than everyone else combined in tech—and that’s not prebriefed news or something that was handed to us. I judge my own performance based on that. When we break a story, that’s a point. When someone else breaks a story, we’re minus a point. And I want to be positive points.

I try to get up at 9 a.m. every day. One of the things my doctor wants me to do is regulate my sleep. A year ago, I’d work until I passed out, and wake up eight or nine hours later, which might be 4 p.m. or 3 a.m. Then I’d work again until I passed out. That was my life for four years—it got really bad. I missed a lot of social things. I didn’t keep up with friends. I was a mess. I actually gained 50 pounds in the five years since I started TechCrunch. So now I’m working with a doctor and trying to get reset. Getting up at the same time every day is apparently one of the best things you can do health-wise. The problem is, I still don’t go to sleep very early. So I’m usually working on four or five hours of sleep. Then I make it up on the weekends.

The very first thing I do in the morning is go right to my computer, which is always on. I’ll scan my e-mail for breaking news. If something big is going on, I’ll decide if I want to cover the story or assign it to another writer. Say a source sends me a tip that Google is buying Microsoft, and it’s going to break later today—I’m making this up, but that would be a big story. I’d start calling people at Google and Microsoft to see if it’s true or not.

Sometimes, it will be true, but the company will ask me to hold off. Negotiating with companies over how news breaks is a big part of what we do. I don’t think traditional journalists would do this or admit to it, but a source might say, “Yeah, we just got bought, but can you please not write about it for a week, because it might kill the deal?’ Unless I know lots of other journalists are sniffing around, I generally defer to the entrepreneur. We probably lose half of those stories, but it’s the right thing to do. It builds trust. People aren’t going to tell you things if they don’t trust you.

Usually around 11 a.m., after I have put out all the fires and there’s nothing left in my inbox that I have to address immediately, I’ll take a shower, get dressed, and walk my dogs. I have a chocolate and a yellow lab, and they’re my best friends.

I moved to the Seattle area in May. It’s calm, and my parents live nearby, so I see them a few times each week. I spend two-thirds of the time working here, and the rest of the time in our office in San Francisco. Right now, I don’t actually have a place in California, so I stay in hotels.

After my dogs are fed, I make myself something to eat and go back to my desk. My office is like a cave. I have blackout shades on the windows. I like the dark. There’s less distraction. I use a Mac with two 24-inch monitors, and I’ll do research on one screen and write on the other. It’s more efficient. I’d love to have three monitors, but Macs support only two. I have the exact same setup in my office in San Francisco.

I usually spend about half my day talking to sources, either on the phone or on IM. There are very few people in Silicon Valley—or in tech, in general—whom I don’t know pretty well. Chasing down stories is my favorite part of my job. My style is to bust the door down and clean the mess up later. That works pretty well for me. I’ve known a lot of my sources for five years now. When I call them, there’s no salutation—it’s just right to the point. I expect them to tell me what I want to know very quickly.

Our main competitive advantage is that my team and I truly love entrepreneurs. They’re my rock stars. I’ve always been fascinated by entrepreneurs. I had four businesses that did not work out. TechCrunch is my first real success, and it happened by accident. If I were to write a book, it would be about what drives entrepreneurs. I meet the winners, and the losers, too. Most of them could go out and get a perfectly reasonable job as an accountant or a lawyer. Instead, they risk everything for almost certain failure. The losers are actually more interesting sometimes. You learn a ton from failure.

I never develop friendships with people I don’t actually like. For instance, I write about digital music a lot. And the music labels are notorious for working the press. They’ll leak stuff and develop relationships, and it can actually be pretty fruitful as a journalist to get to know them. I hate ‘em. They sue their customers. I see them as Darth Vader. Maybe it’s not fair, but I see the world in black and white. I don’t like them, so I won’t talk to them. My sources are all people I actually genuinely like, and I think they know that. They’re my friends, too.

I’m pretty unorganized when it comes to keeping track of my sources. I used to keep most of them sorted in my head. But then at some point in the past year, I suddenly lost my short-term memory. I don’t know if it’s just turning 40. One way I stay organized now is by using Google Voice. It keeps a record of all of my phone calls and text messages. When I make a call, I’ll almost always initiate it from my computer through this service. And if somebody calls my Google Voice number, it will ring my cell phone or my home phone—any phone I want. It also makes it easy to set up cell phones when I travel to Europe or Asia.

Text messages and phone calls tend to be the sort of cloak-and-dagger way I get tips and story ideas, but I also use Skype a lot. The video quality is great. When you go full screen, it’s like the other person is in the room. Skype also has screen sharing, so the person can hit a button and I can see their desktop. I use it a lot for business, and more and more for talking with friends.

I don’t like PR people for the most part. I like going to CEOs directly. If a PR person suggests I meet the CEO of this new company, I always say yes. But if they say, “Can we set up drinks? Or dinner?’ I say no. I hate that—it is a huge waste of time. Let’s meet over coffee or get on Skype video and talk about your company, but I don’t want to chitchat about your family, because I don’t know you. If I have time to go to dinner, I want to do that with my college friends or my parents or whomever I’m dating.

I usually post several times a week. When I first started TechCrunch, I would post several times a day. I’ve always been manic about it. You know that experiment where the rat hits the lever and the treat comes out? By the third day of writing, I got my first comment from somebody who wasn’t my mom. That’s the treat. Then people started subscribing to my RSS feed. Every day, that number would go up—10, 13, 100. That constant feedback is my reward. I still scan for comments on my posts. I can almost always predict how many comments I’ll get. Most are knee-jerk reactions, but sometimes there will be a few that are worthy of discussion, and I’ll chime in.

TechCrunch is known for our parties. That’s how I met all my sources in the early days. These days, we do three big blowouts every year, five or six smaller events, and then a few small parties. It winds up being an event every month, and I try to go to all of them. I started the tradition when I first moved to Palo Alto in 2005. I wrote a blog post inviting people to a party—10 people came. I made hamburgers. We drank beer and stayed up until 4 a.m. drinking Scotch by the fire. Two weeks later, I had another party, and 20 people showed up. About 100 people came to the next one, then 200. Venture capitalists were smoking pot in my backyard and passing out on my couch. I stopped having parties at my house, because it was getting trashed. About 1,000 people came to our party this summer.

Over the years, some people got upset when we didn’t cover them, and a certain percentage of those really made it personal. Or I’d write about how much I liked a start-up—or didn’t like a start-up—and people would get really passionate about that. Suddenly, there were people who really didn’t like me. And because I’m introverted—I like being alone—that actually made me pull in a little bit, and then more and more. The more I pulled in and stopped talking to people, the more people saw me maybe as arrogant.

So suddenly, I have all these enemies. In 2008, somebody spit on me at a conference in Germany. Before that, I had a death-threat incident—I had to hire private security 24/7 to protect me and my parents. We closed our office, and one of our employees got detained by police when he stopped by to check on things. Obviously, we sorted that out, but the whole experience freaked me out. I took off. I went to Hawaii for a month and didn’t bring my computer. Page views went up; everything was fine. That helped me realize that I am not nearly as important as I thought I was—and that the team I hired is really good. I’ve really let go since then. Now I really rely on them, and it’s really good.

I have never been very good at managing. I want to be writing, and it’s hard to be a coach and a player at the same time. Plus, I’m moody. That’s why I hired Heather Harde as CEO. She is steady. Erick Schonfeld, who is co-editor of TechCrunch, manages the editorial team. I talk with each of them maybe three times a week. We have never had an executive meeting. Instead, we use this program called Yammer to make sure everyone at TechCrunch is on the same page. It’s like a streaming bulletin board—anyone can post, and everyone will see it. If I think a writer or editor did a great job, I’ll give them a public high-five. Or if someone screwed up the formatting, I may point it out so others can learn from those mistakes.

Around 3 p.m., I usually take a break. I run errands or play fetch with my dogs. This summer, since I’d just moved, I did a lot of household things—like unpacking or buying a shower rod. Depending on my plans, I may go out to dinner with my friends or my parents. Or I’ll eat alone and then go back to work. Honestly, my goal these days is fitting real life in around the work.

After dinner, I’m usually back at the computer. That’s when I do thought and opinion pieces. I’ll spend two or three hours on one post. For example, in July, a CNN journalist was fired for tweeting her opinion about a Hezbollah leader. I wrote a piece about how ridiculous it was that she could not have an opinion.

I like working late at night. There are no interruptions. I usually listen to music when I write. I like hard music that is not happy music—Metallica, Eminem, Rage Against the Machine.

I might go until midnight or 6 in the morning. No matter what time it is, I always read before I go to bed—even if it is only a few pages. Usually fiction and always an actual printed book. My favorite book is Catch-22. And then I fall asleep, happy.

Michael Arrington Interview By: Inc.com

Comedian & TV Show Writer “Louis CK” sits down with Conan O’Brien and talks about the things in life that we take for granted. Although it has a little humor to it this video really puts things into perspective  and makes you realize what you really should be happy for.

This video of Louis CK has changed my outlook on things, hopefully it will help you see the world in a different way and appreciate what you have around you, because a much happier life is a life worth living.

Louis CK – Everything’s Amazing Right Now & Nobody’s Happy

Bonus Video Opie & Anthony: Louis CK Explains…His Viral Video – Part 1 of 2

At the age of 16 Gurbaksh Chahal was on his way to creating his 40 Million Dollar Advertising company which lead him later on to selling a second company at $300 Million to Yahoo.Gurbaksh Chahal is a Self Made Millionaire starting from a PC at home and a Risky Idea, you may have seen him on The Secret Millionaire, On The Oprah Show or even read his published book “The Dream”.

In this Video Gurbaksh shares his advice on taking big risks and making money work for you.

Gurbaksh Chahal The Youngest Self Made Multi-Millionaire

Also checkout Part 1 of Gurbaksh Chahal on The Secret Millionaire

Expected to die at birth, Sean Stephenson has overcome tremendous odds (he suffered more than 200 bone fractures by age 18, reached a height of 3 feet, and is permanently confined to a wheelchair).  Co-Signed by The most elite motivators such  as Anthony Robbins, Richard Branson and Bill Clinton, Sean inspires millions around the globe! Check out these videos of Sean!

“When I hear excuses muttered from another, I’m reminded to stop repeating those of my own.”

Sean Stephenson: Guilt Doesn’t Need To Be Your Friend

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEcERKXysi8

Sean Stephenson  On The Discovery Channel

With a Net Worth of $2.5 Billion Mark Cuban, the owner of NBA’s Dallas Mavericks Basketball Team and the Chairman of HDNet is living the American Dream. Mark Cuban created and sold Broadcast.com for 5.9 Billion in Yahoo! Stock back in 1999 and hasn’t stopped creating/buying and selling companies since.

In this Video we take a look in the mind of an extremely successful entrepreneur who explains the key elements of creating a successful business for yourself and how to platform to bigger and better things (like owning your own NBA team!).

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The Wolf Of Wall Street “Jordan Belfort” who I was lucky enough to meet in person a couple months ago for a work conference spoke to us about the importance of learning from your past mistakes and setting your goals to the highest degree to achieve financial success.

Jordan Belforts Best Selling book “The Wolf Of Wall Street” has been snatched up by Hollywood Director Martin Scorsese and is being filmed as we speak with Leonardo Di Caprio acting as Jordan with hopes of a 2013 release.

This 2 Part Video is an interview with Jordan Belfort explaining how he became known as “The Wolf Of Wall Street” and how he lost his Hundreds of Millions of Dollars by making the wrong decisions in business.

Jordan Belfort – The Wolf Of Wall Street Pt 1

Jordan Belfort – The Wolf Of Wall Street Pt 2

Taken from a Book called “Outliers: The Story of Success– by Malcom Gladwell”. This is the idea that it takes approximately 10,000 hours of deliberate practice to master a skill.

I don’t know if I believe 100% in this rule, I believe this may be just an average and there are gifted people out there and also people who understand that persistence and the right connections can pay off. What is your comments on this? Watch the Video and share your comments with us.

Malcolm Gladwell believes it would take 10 years of practicing 3 hours a day to become a master in your subject. It would take approximately 5 years of full time employment to become proficient in your field. SImply work out how many hours you have already achieved and calculate how far you need to go. You should be aiming for 10,000 hours.

Malcom Gladwell The 10,000 Hour Rule

In this 3 Part Video Atlantic Records Music Artists Lupe Fiasco, Estelle, B.o.B & Janelle Monae sit down and discuss how they push the envelope and do things outside of the ordinary to reach their success in the music industry, business and life.

Lupe Fiasco, Estelle, B.o.B & Janelle Monae Success Advice

Tyrese Gibson, Quincy Jones, Jeff Johnson and John Hope Bryant talk to Devi Dev about their keys to success, how who you hang with will determine who you become, how we are trained to become workers not owners and much more at 5MK (5 Million Kids) launch event.

Tyrese Gibson’s Success Advice:

Tyrese Gibson, Quincy Jones, Jeff Johnson and John Hope Bryant:

Sweeping the world with millions of new members a day, Twitter the Social Networking tool that is trailing right behind the world famous”Facebook” may only be a hop and a skip away from pulling Facebooks number of users within the next year or so with interest sparked and made popular by the likes of Charlie Sheen, Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga, Oprah, Barack Obama etc….

This Documentary interviews Twitters CEO, Evan Williams and his team of creators and how they have come to be one of the most popular world wide networking websites out.

The Success Story Of Twitter

Def Jam & Phat Farm founder Russell Simmons shares with us his advice on how to get Super Rich and still stay enlightened. Russell Simmons shares some of the information we can expect from his latest book “Super Rich” with alot of money making gems that will not only save you alot of time but will point you in the best direction for your long term achievable goals and dreams.

Its good to know we still have some down to earth Millionaires out there like Russell Simmons.

Russell Simmons Success Advice

BBC’s Robert Peston reveals how the super-rich have made their fortunes. This Documentary shows it how it is, As they say, “The Rich get Richer and the Poor get Poorer“. This shows you how and why.

Take a look into a Rich Mans world and see how their fame and fortune came about.

The Super Rich Lifestyle

Farrah Gray defied the odds and became a self-made millionaire by the age of 14. At the age of 21, he received an Honorary Doctorate degree of Humane Letters from Allen University.

Dr. Gray has inspired millions around the world. At the age of 26, he has achieved more than many achieve in a lifetime. Farrah’s Advice is Priceless, don’t miss out on this compilation of Farrah Gray’s words of Wisdom.

Farrah Gray – Success Advice

Click the Picture Below to Purchase Farrahs Book Nine Steps to Becoming Rich from the Inside Out!

Do yourself a favor and reserve 13 minutes aside  in your day today to watch this video by Anthony Robbins. Tony Robbins reveals the invisible forces that motivate everyone’s actions.

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.  – Tony Robbins

(Video) Tony Robbins *Rare* Interview – Secrets To Life

In this CBS Interview with Degrassi High Actor and Recording artist  Aubrey “Drake” Graham, Drake shares the advice he received from Lil Wayne when signing to Cash Money (Universal) and how important it is to be yourself when coming up.

Drake will be voicing the character of “Ethan” in the new Ice Age 4 Movie and his Sophomore album “Take Care” will be released later this year.

Lil Waynes Success Advice For Drake

In this Video the Energetic Millionaire & New York Times best Selling Author ‘Gary Vaynerchuk‘ will explain the trends of the internet and advertising world and how he works  his way through the hussle and the bussle to come out on top. If you dont know who Gary is he started a blog site (winelibrary.com) 5 years ago with an unstoppable plan of advertising and marketing genius that brought him and his company to a mass of 60 Million Dollars to date!

You will learn more from this 10 minute video about advertising and marketing than you would in a years worth of classes with this. Don’t miss out on this amazing Interview with Gary Vaynerchuk.

Gary Vaynerchuk – Becoming A Millionaire & Chasing Your Passion

One of the best Martial Artists in the world, Bruce Lee lived and breathed his art.

We have a lot to learn from this legend about the discipline and focus that is needed to be a successful human being on this planet.

“Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.” – Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee – Like Water

“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough: we must do.” – Bruce Lee