All posts by Charles Jo

About Charles Jo

founder, StartupStudyGroup

Book about writing books as new business cards

From an author friend

Charles Jo

Dear friends,

My newest book is at Amazon today. It’s already #4 at Amazon for its category.

After writing so many books, I wrote a book on how to write books. By writing books, you can get opportunities for more projects, jobs, and so on. See http://blog.andreas.com/2014/08/18/why-you-should-write-a-book/

Free this week for your Kindle, iPad, iPhone, Android, smartphone, laptop, or any browser. Go http://goo.gl/8IuHMS

Project Gutenberg + @Genius

I would like to see Project Gutenberg http://www.gutenberg.org annotated by Genius @genius. Free books and summaries accessible to anyone anywhere with a smart phone. After that would be a social layer for students, teachers and fans to discuss and connect.

Charles Jo
8/15/14 initial post
8/16/14 updated
Charles@startupstudygroup.com

Networking – KLOK1170am.com invitation

Hi Sheridan,

Thank you for the great invitation. I am sharing with my network.

Please continue to forward great stuff.

Best,

Charles Jo (650)906-2500
charlesjo

Begin forwarded message:

From: Sheridan Tatsuno <sheridan>
Date: August 13, 2014 at 10:19:37 AM PDT
To: Charles Jo <charlesjo>
Subject: KLOK1170am.com invitation

Hi Charles,

Thanks for your call today!

You and your business colleagues are invited to tune in to our tech talk radio show on KLOK1170am.com, which covers Big Data, mobile and security on the cloud. It reaches 400,000 Silicon Valley commuters and up to 11 million Indian professionals worldwide.

If you know any CEOs who would like to be interviewed, let me know. It’s a great opportunity for them to get free publicity worldwide — and a handy calling card for you. See below for recordings of past interviews.

Sheridan

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The Power of Belief by Debbie Ruston

BELIEF is necessary to succeed in all aspects of life.  No matter what we are engaging in, without belief we will not have the desired result we are looking for.

Selling a product or service – The most effective sales people are those that absolutely believe in what they are offering.  Energy is transmitted throughout the dialogue a sales person has with a client.  Two sales people can be saying the same words, even following a pre written script….those that actually believe in and are excited about what they are offering will always outperform those that are just selling to make a living.

Relationships – Everyone has experienced a relationship that didn’t work out.    If someone is in a relationship with a person that does not have common goals, beliefs, values, etc., the chance of the relationship lasting dwindles as the belief in spending a lifetime together just doesn’t seem possible.  On the other hand, when you are in sync with someone, believing you will have a long term relationship is just automatic, you don’t even have to think about it.  It is effortless and just flows.

Losing weight/getting in shape – This is an area of life so many struggle with.  We hear phrases such as “it’s in my genes”, or “I’ve tried, but I can’t lose weight”, etc.   If one does not believe they are capable of being in shape, they will find every excuse in the book to support that belief.  On the other hand, those that believe they can reach their desired weight, will make decisions and take actions that support their goal.  These people make sure they grocery shop responsibly and don’t buy food that would temp them.  These people think about what they are cooking, eating, they make conscious decisions to exercise regularly and don’t buy their own excuses.  They believe they are capable of reaching their ideal weight and then make decisions that support this.

Sports – People engage in sports everyday, and then some don’t.  What is the difference?  Some fully enjoy the sport they choose and regardless of how proficient they are, or how busy they may be, they believe it will bring them joy so  they want to spend time engaging in it.  On the other hand, someone that has no interest in sports, will have no belief in their ability to spend time participating in something they don’t have interest in.

Cooking – Would you invite someone over for a big fancy dinner?  If you wouldn’t you might believe you are not a good cook and are not capable of putting on a fine dinner for others.  Those that throw dinner parties don’t have to think about it…they just believe they will put on a great dinner.

If you are engaging in something and not experiencing the result you desire, ask yourself where your belief is?  Do you actually believe in what you are doing?  If not,  it may be time to course correct, and either learn what it takes to be more proficient, or take a new direction.  Getting authentic with yourself in this way removes a lot of underlying challenges such as stress, unhappiness, feeling inadequate, etc.  Build your belief, and you build your results….


I believe in taking an active stand for true human potential.

I have been a successful entrepreneur, since 1986 and have spent my career helping people discover their limitations and overcome them, which has been extremely rewarding…now taking it to a whole new level by putting this knowledge into the hands of students that are stuck in the “underemployment” of today’s changed economy. Such a high percentage of young people cannot find work despite their degree and massive student debts….the missing link is to teach them to take control in their lives to combine their strengths, passions, degrees, and all the available options in technology to build their own businesses as self reliant entrepreneurs. One of the greatest gifts we can give people is to teach them to be self reliant….I am happy to play a role in that teaching…

Debbie Ruston

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6th Exercise – Think about tweet by Marc Andreesen re: 7B empowered smartphone users

The question is “…what are 7 billion free, empowered, connected people with net-connected supercomputers going to build by end of century?”

My initial thoughts: more neat and valuable projects like Linux will emerge to tackle different types of problems.  Benedict Evans stated that Uber did not exist when iPhone arrived in his 2014 keynote but I think that there may have been people with Uber/Lyft ideas who did not get opportunity to productize and build a business.  I recall reading stories of crackdown on Los Angeles Koreatown drivers taxing people around.  What if these entrepreneurs had tools to develop around apps.   As barriers to start new companies disappear, we may see the most interesting apps yet – and quicker – by more non-tech centric demographic.  Yes, software is eating the world.