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Please help me select the new owntrepreneurship logo!
Hi All! After running this blog for 2 months I'm feeling like something is missing. So I've contacted a talented graphic designer named Vladimir Vladetic via Odesk and asked for his help. After several drafts this is what he's proposed: I think these are all great, so I'm asking my readers to help me choose…
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Was "Drone Dad" wrong to follow his little girl from the skies?
(this post does not deal with Owntrepreneurship at all, just with being a parent nowadays…). Dubbed by Time magazine as World’s Most Embarrassing Dad (http://time.com/3831431/dad-daughter-drone-school/), this father followed his little girl to school from afar using a quad drone. But is it realty different than monitoring your child's whereabouts using a smartphone app? or walking…
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The Guns of August
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Your kids are the greatest motivators of your career
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Should we ditch the fantasy of being an entrepreneur and focus on becoming an OWNtrepreneurs instead?

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Concluding the first month of owntrepreneurship blogging- the hardest part is behind me
Hi All, The owntrepreneurship blog has just finished its first full month since I've gone live towards the end of February 2015! During this time over 200 people have visited the site and read the various posts and sections (most of them read 2 or more sections or posts). If you're reading this- know that…
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The benefits of Long term thinking and decision making
One thing that parenthood teaches you is to think in longer terms. Things you’ve asked yourself and answered in timeframes which ranged from minutes to days now change to months and years. When will my baby start walking? In about 8 months. When will I take my son to his first football game? In about…
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Good things come to those who iron?
I've always found ironing very relaxing. No matter how irritated I am, 5 minutes into the ironing session and I find myself relaxed and, as funny as it may sound, in a kind of "zone". The repetitive motion of the iron over dress shirts and trousers always helps me drift away and rarely do I finish such…
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Owntrepreneurship- finding your inspiration
No doubt about it, starting your journey to be an Owntrepreneur is daunting. There are so many reasons against it, the most powerful is the power of habit (breaking this “habit trap” is a subject of another post). So I will provide one very powerful tip to help in this critical and difficult step. The…
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The Importance of Mentioning the Business Justification in Each Design
Originally posted on Reflections of a Product Manager: I recently came across several examples of requirements design documents which focused on the solution and assumed we're all aligned around the business justification. This is mostly common when all of us are already working on some project and there is a tendency of group thinking. I…