I think its safe to say that for the majority of people, Thanksgiving is not about goodness and gratitude, but rather, family drama.
Until now, I have been pretty much on the outside of this American tradition: The tradition of building up Thanksgiving to be a great family moment and then the family not living up [...]

We reorganized the company today. We brought in a new, interim CEO, who’s not me. For many entrepreneurs, that is their worst nightmare.
But I couldn’t be happier. For one thing, it’s a sign that my company, Brazen Careerist, is doing well. Remember when the company was running out of money and my electricity was getting [...]

My company just launched, all-new, at BrazenCareerist.com. For those of you who have been asking for the past year: "What's your business model?" You can read about it on TechCrunch. If  you want the full pitch, you can read the press release, (and you should know that all last week, when I wasn't blogging, I was [...]

When I launched my company, Wired magazine contacted me to write a column about how to run a start-up. The editor, Dylan Tweney, blew me away with his offer. It wasn’t just that he took me to lunch in the grown-local lunchroom at Wired. He also had this unbelievable faith in me that I knew [...]

I have said about ten million times that there is no more glass ceiling, there is no more salary gap between men and women, and there is no reason to keep bitching about sexual harassment because it’s merely a legal issue, not a men-are-evil issue.
Okay. So if the gender gaps are not around these feminist [...]

My company is running out of money again. Well, really, it already happened. But it’s happened so many times that I am sort of used to it. It's a routine. You may recall that part of the routine is not paying my electric bill. But there is more.
1. Focus on something you can control.
You might [...]

I get questions all the time about how I manage having kids and a startup at the same time. After trying to answer the question a few times, I realized that there's the pretty-much-BS answer about how it's all about being clear on your values. Or there’s the complicated, too-long-for-interviews answer.
To really get tips for [...]

One of the reasons I moved from New York City to Madison, WI is that I knew I would start another company. I wasn't sure what it would be, but I had already launched two startups, and I could feel another one coming. It's a sort of itch I get when I have too many [...]

Brian Wiegand is a very low-profile guy who has sold three companies, most recently to Microsoft. He is big enough that TechCrunch writes about him as a good bet for anyone betting. But the bane of Brian’s existence is that his exits have all been for under $50 million.
This is enough for him to [...]

We finally locked up funding for my company. There are some catches, though, and one of them is that we can’t use the funding to pay back debt.
This is a problem because our company has been out of money, pretty much, since November. We have revenue, but not enough to cover operating expenses. So we’ve [...]

People ask me all the time, "What blogs do you read?" The answer is that I read different ones at different times. It's a mood thing, I think. I could give you my favorite blogs for finding cool research, or my favorite blogs from my friends, or my favorite fashion blogs for when I don't [...]

My company is out of money, which you are never supposed let happen. And definitely never supposed to confess to. Because then investors can give you any terms they want. Rape. Carnage. Pillage. Everything. And in our case, it's coming from the angels who invested in our first round of funding, which means that the [...]

I can always tell when things are really falling apart for me by how many days in a row I wear the same outfit. Last week, I wore my I'm-a-successful-CEO outfit four days in a row. In case you need a visual, it is black all over with ruffle near the neck – a little [...]

It's a season of joy, right? You are probably thinking that you can count on my blog posts to be a respite from seasonal joy. But still, I'm susceptible to peer pressure. Mostly because I think it's an obligation of a friend to be sort of cheery. Because cheeriness is contagious. And on some level, [...]

I will be on a live call today with Guy Kawasaki and John Jantsch. You can sign up to be on the call here.
John is the force behind the Duct Tape Marketing blog, which is a great example of how to use a blog to grow a whole business. Today, his blog looks like an [...]

Here's what happens in every meeting I have with investors: They ask about my divorce.
Many people ask about my divorce. Usually it's because the person cares about me. But with the investors, there is no pretense. They just want to know if Nino is going to get a large percentage of my stock in the [...]

People are always asking me what our business model is for Brazen Careerist. Now that we have a network of 150 great bloggers, we are focusing on companies. A lot of companies come to us asking for access to the bloggers. Not surprisingly, companies want to recruit from the bloggers and their friends. But we [...]

The update on my company is that Ryan Healy and I are not talking to each other. Well, he is talking to me, but I am giving him the silent treatment.
Still, I am confident that things are going well. First, because I am bad at the silent treatment—I have too much to say all the [...]

It's the big moment where I tell you to go check out BrazenCareerist.com. It's the first stage of our company, and it's a network of fifty young bloggers who I love, all blogging about their professional interests.
This would be a great time to tell you the grand story of the birth of my grand company.
When [...]

Do you want to know how to tell if you have a business idea that will succeed? You know what? I don't know how you know that. And if I did, I'd be a venture capitalist, right? But I do know how you can tell if you have a business idea that is worth reorganizing [...]