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Falmouth boys in state basketball final | CapeCodOnline.com

GO CLIPPERS!  Unfortunately, I missed my chance to play (hockey) at Boston Garden because I transferred out of Falmouth High the year my team went to the States, but I’m so excited for these kids right now.

High school sports are awesome.  Congrats to Coach Lundberg - he’s a great guy.

Be sure to watch the awesome layup at the 2 minute mark and click through to read the whole story.

of course i love this.

lacrosse:

New Nike Commiercial: “The Human Chain”

I love sports.  Awesome video by Nike:Take It To The Next Level - Directors Cut (via @bryanbeshore)

lunchtime entertainment: this f*ing polar bear blows up Earth!

UAF Nanook Hockey Opening Vid (via @nromeo)

This past weekend I was fortunate enough to hear famed college football coach Lou Holtz speak at the US Lacrosse Convention while there representing HomeField.  He was both inspiring and hilarious.  If you have a chance to hear him speak, do take it.

In his speech, he laid out a few rules for life and told story after story from his coaching career.  While it largely focused on coaching athletics, his talk is applicable to life in general and from my seat - a startup founder trying to lead my team to success - I applied his thoughts to entrepreneurship.

Lou’s Rules of Life Entrepreneurship

1. “Do right.”

This is a classic.  It’s so simple.  In entrepreneurship, you’re spread thin trying to do a million things at once.  You’ve got to figure out what your users want.  You’ve got to figure out how to run a business.  You’ve got to make a lot of mistakes.  If you can have one guiding principle, “Do right.” is as good as it gets.  It’s similar to Google’s “Do no evil.”

I learned this one early.  My dad used to say “do the right thing.”  Even when you make a mistake, if you were trying to do the right thing you’ll be all right.

2. “Do everything to the very best of your ability.”

In a startup, you have to do this.  If you’re not working your hardest and doing your best work, someone else will come along and eat your lunch.  If you’re not at your best, then why should a customer use your product?  If you don’t prepare and bring your best to every meeting, then why should your co-founders?

Being “good” isn’t enough.  Being the “best” is the only thing that matters.

3. “Treat people the way you want to be treated.”

This goes back to people - co-founders, employees, customers, partners, investors, competitors (yup, even them), and most importantly, your family/friends/loved ones (they’re a part of this roller-coaster ride, too and you can’t treat ‘em like crap because they have to like you).  You have to treat everyone well.  The world is too small and life is too short to be a grump.

It doesn’t matter if your customers gave bad feedback, if your meeting didn’t go well, or if your competitor launched a similar feature.  You can’t take it out on the people around you.  If anything, they’re the ones who are going to help you make the next play.

Tomorrow: “W.I.N. - What’s Important Now?”

jaw. dropped.  as a drummer myself, i am wicked impressed.  this kid is going to be unreal.

@david:

Holy smokes!

A five-year old kid drum-covering System Of A Down’s Toxicity.

Even if that last image stings like a mofo (for Patriots fans like me), this is a great montage of the decade in sports.

Sad that so much of it is about the controversy surrounding sports, but I guess that’s the nature of the beast.

Nonetheless, here is 6 minutes of video that reminds us why sports are so powerful…

lacrosse:

ESPN’s Images of the Decade

Kind of ridiculous, but it’s cool to see the innovation nonetheless.

Thanks to Gillis for the link.

Skiing Waves in Hawaii - Salomon Freeski TV via Teton Gravity Research

Let the Beat Build by Nyle

Another great song pulled from @Vimeo’s 25 Favorite Videos of the Year.  The whole song was recorded and filmed in one take (so it’s not properly mixed but it’s great nonetheless).

What I really love about Nyle is that he is a modern artist - check out his site and see how he’s embracing the web as a means of distribution.  He’s got an entire strategy around his music career.

You can download the song or even the whole album here.