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“Stay hungry, stay foolish.”
-Steve Jobs (1955-2011)

Thanks to Baruch’s Marketing and Advertising clubs for hosting me as a guest speaker this week. While I was there, I covered quite a few subjects ranging from getting a startup off the ground to customer service, social media, and marketing on a budget. Though there is no video, this deck can provide a bit of a summary of what we discussed as well as a great resource for those that attended.

Lately I have been commuting a lot between New York and New Haven. Its about 2 hours from my office to downtown New Haven, so I have been getting to know the Metro-North rail quite well. In fact, I have started to realize I know all of the local business owners up there better than my uptown neighborhood. With all of this train time, I tend to catch up on news, twitter feeds, and emails, but rarely do I nap. When I get home from a day of bouncing around Yale for meetings, I tend to have another couple of hours between the startup I am co-founding and the part-time job that helps to pay my bills. If I am lucky I get about 6 hours of sleep on a weeknight and usually less.

I was reminded of this article though, which talks about how being a successful CEO requires you to learn how to sleep just about anywhere: planes, trains, automobiles, or anywhere else you can catch a power nap. Thinking about this, my time spent working in Asia taught me to do this even in the craziest bouts with Indian drivers, across the backroads of Cambodia, and the quick up and down commutes between Bangkok and Udon Thani. So now on the trains, I seem to have lost it. After being reminded of this article tonight, I have decided it is probably worth practicing a little more. Here goes nothing for my home stretch from Stamford into Grand Central!

Enjoy this HBR piece: Sleeping on Airplanes: HBR Blog

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