Nick O'Neill

My ramblings on entrepreneurship and online publishing.
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How To Stop Your Product Launch From Failing Miserably

Success is not about launching your product as soon as possible. Here's an approach that I've seen work time and again.

How I Missed The Opportunity To Invent Groupon

There’s a good chance that you’ve heard of Groupon, but what you probably didn’t know was that I was almost the person who invented it. While I will never get credit for missing what many may consider an opportunity of a lifetime, I thought I could at least share a short story about my failure [...]

Is Blog A Bad Word?

From my experience most people don't view blogging as a valid profession. Is that because the word 'blog' has a negative connotation?

The Secret Formula To Never Being Unemployed

While jobs may be hard to come by nowadays, there's a group of individuals who seem to be able to find jobs no matter what the state of the economy is. How do they do it and more importantly how can you?

Holler At Me!

Over the past few months I’ve been working on a new company: Holler.com. The company’s vision is to connect the world through social experiences. So far we’ve built a product, tossed it out, rebuilt the product, and are preparing to finally get the first version out. The one thing that I’ve learned again is that [...]

How To Create A Digital Vision Board

Many people don’t know it but I’m a voracious reader of books about self-help, applied psychology, and business strategy. I also have tons of reference guides, but the first three categories have helped shape me over the past decade. Any person that has inquired knows that there are 3 books that truly shaped me: “Think [...]

Are We Born Entrepreneurs?

As I sit here waiting for a video interview to upload I began wondering about whether or not everybody and anybody is fit to be an entrepreneur. Most people would react harshly saying that it would be foolish to suggest that anybody can be an entrepreneur. Let’s be honest though and explore this question a [...]

Happy New Year

I’m preparing to go out for my new year’s evening and I decided that now would be a great time to write a post. It’s especially a great time since I haven’t been writing on this blog for a while now. I am not gone, just focusing on my many other sites. I have to [...]

iTunes Suffers Widespread Outages

Not long ago I stopped pirating music as iTunes provided me with a great interface and a quick and easy way to get the music that I like. Additionally, I finally had some excess cash to spend on music! Since yesterday morning I’ve been trying to buy music from iTunes and I haven’t been able [...]

Burnout May Be Inevitable

Today I have really come close to hitting my breaking point. Over the past few months, I have been working harder then I ever have in my entire life. There have been no vacations. Just work with the occasional party with friends but honestly it has pretty much been just work. I frequently stay up [...]