My mom built a small software empire in Denmark, starting in 1983, and building it to market leading 50-person company in 1993 when she sold it.

She g…

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Other · Calvin Correli · Dec 29, 2012
Handwashing is superstition

Hand wash

This is right up my alley. I love stories about our collective superstitions - things we take way too seriously, but for which the rationale doesn't …

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Other · Calvin Correli · Dec 28, 2012
What if everything is as it should be?

What if everything is as it should be?

Phoebe and I were having masala dosas for breakfast at Mylari a few weeks ago, and were talking about whether t…

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Business Insider:

And now, instead of writing stories about how Snapchat is doomed, people are wondering: What's wrong with product development at Fa…

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Other · Calvin Correli · Dec 28, 2012
There can be no strategy without hope

Brad Feld quoting Dov Seidman:

And while they are right that hope is technically not a strategy, inspirational leaders understand one final thing:  t…

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When my son was two, we went to the swimming pool, where he would walk up on the 3 meter high diving board, jump into the water below, swim to the edg…

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Other · Calvin Correli · Dec 26, 2012
Courage

What is courage? I've often been asked about where I get my courage from - the courage to start my own company, remain self-employed through ups and d…

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Other · Calvin Correli · Dec 26, 2012
Plagiarism

What's happening right now in the US with all the shootings remind me of an old statistic about suicide: That in the days after a widely publicized su…

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Other · Calvin Correli · Dec 23, 2012
Placebo

About 20 years ago, fresh out of high school, I was at a late night jazz concert with a friend who had just begun to study medicine. I started talking…

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