Closed for the Summer

After much neglect, I've realized I just don't have the time to update this summer as often as preferred. With this in mind, I've decided to close my blog for the summer.

My Summer Reading List:

Direct Mail Copy That Sells!
The Ten Faces of Innovation: IDEO's Strategies for Defeating the Devil's Advocate and Driving Creativity Throughout Your Organization
The Four Steps to Epiphany
Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In
In Pursuit of Elegance: Why the Best Ideas Have Something Missing
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
The Only Other Investment Guide You'll Ever Need
The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More
Zig Ziglar's Secrets of Closing the Sale

Connect and Contact:
www.twitter.com/callmeelee
www.linkedin.com/in/eblee
eblee.yelp.com

Closing Notes:
Since I might as well end this entry on a high note, this past Monday I had the pleasure to eat lunch at DFJ headquarters and sit directly next to Tim Draper for an hour in a board meeting.

See you again in the fall.

EB

I have decided to drop out of the TVC this year.

Creating a quality business plan takes more time commitment than a couple all nighters on the weekends. I am not happy with this most recent iteration of the plan, the financial forecasting model is far to naive at the current moment. I have decided to save it for next year after I have more experience and more time. I also decided to go part time second semester senior year to give me the much more needed time when I need it the most. Tentative schedule is as follows:

Fall 2009
70-201: Professional and Service Projects
70-397: Venture Capital Investing
70-483: Advertising and Marketing Communications
70-485: Product Management
70-440: Corporate Strategy
70-637: Interactive Media Design Management
80-321: Causation, Law, and Social Policy

69-134: Beginning Golf
69-102: Weight Training

Teaching:
98-131: Progress with PowerPoint
99-101: Computing @ Carnegie Mellon


EB

Obligatory Introduction

Hey guys. If you are reading this, that means you either use to read my posts when I blogged solely about my cooking adventures, or you found me via facebook. I've made some promises to start blogging again, and thus I've re-dubbed this blog "Passion Fruit" with the purpose to delve into the two things that are always on my mind:

Business. It's all a journey. A incredible experience. Sometimes fun, sometimes rocky. It's good to be looking for the end, but don't walk by and forget the pretty daisies on the side. Until I reach my end, I'll write about my daisies.

Food. You may eat to live. You may live to eat. I'll be writing about what I'm living to eat.


Now why "Passion Fruit"? I'll let you think of all the subtle puns.

EB