Book Review: The Dream: How I Learned the Risks and Rewards of Entrepreneurship and Made Millions (Kindle)

Posted by Pek in Monday, February 8th 2010 under: Business, Technology Tags: books, entrepreneur, entrepreneurship, review

I’ve been reading a lot of business and entrepreneurship books lately. I’m especially interested in ones that deal with internet companies. One book that has been sitting in my queue for a while is this one called: “The Dream: How I Learned the Risks and Rewards of Entrepreneurship and Made Millions”. I saw that it [...]

Impressions of the Kindle

Posted by Pek in Thursday, September 17th 2009 under: Technology Tags: amazon, e-book, e-ink, e-reader, gadgets, review

I’ve finally had a chance to play with the Amazon Kindle. I won one for my company t-shirt design contest about a month ago. I have to say I was really skeptical at first about owning one. First the price tag was too high. $300 buys me a lot of books so I have better [...]

Iron Gym Total Upper Body Workout Bar Review

Posted by Pek in Monday, December 15th 2008 under: Martial Arts, Technology Tags: equiptment, gadget, review, sports, video

This is my first video review ever. I’ve seen so many late night commercials of this thing, I decided to give it a go. The Iron Gym is a metal bar contraption which allows you to do chinups on your door way. I asked Craig at work about it since he has one and he’s [...]

Book Review: “Buffet – The Making of an American Capitalist”

Posted by Pek in Sunday, November 9th 2008 under: Business Tags: biography, books, Business, investing, review

As of this moment, Warren Buffet is the richest man in America, surpassing even Bill Gates at a whopping estimated net worth of $62 BILLION dollars. His company, Berkshire Hathaway is currently trading at 113,000 with a market cap of over $175B. He makes Dr. Evil look like a lemonade stand. I wanted to [...]

“Crossing the Chasm” Book Review

Posted by Pek in Monday, June 9th 2008 under: Business, Technology Tags: book, Business, entrepreneurs, management, marketing, review, startup, tech

I think this book was recommended reading on a Y Combinator blog post. Described as a marketing book for engineers, I quickly jumped on this one on Amazon. This book aims to help you take your product from the startup phase across the chasm into the consumer phase. The misconception that entrepreneurs must realize is [...]