The world of Sam Huleatt in images
/Anecdotes by Sam
June 8, 2009
Slide from a great deck put together by David Cowan of Bessemer called “When Failure Is an Option”
Slide from a great deck put together by David Cowan of Bessemer called “When Failure Is an Option”
June 5, 2009
Häagen-Dazs isn’t a foreign company? True. The original is right here in Brooklyn Heights.. http://bit.ly/siwgB
Häagen-Dazs isn’t a foreign company? True. The original is right here in Brooklyn Heights.. http://bit.ly/siwgB
May 28, 2009
Awesomeness
May 22, 2009
(via mediaeater)
(via mediaeater)
I couldn’t sleep one night in Austin so I took an early, early AM walk.
I got a kick out of this…

I couldn’t sleep one night in Austin so I took an early, early AM walk.

I got a kick out of this…

Not a bad view…
Not a bad view…
You can’t beat rolling to a meeting in a vehicle like this: don’t mess.
You can’t beat rolling to a meeting in a vehicle like this: don’t mess.
Isn’t she purdy?
Isn’t she purdy?
May 17, 2009
Psychologists have found that thought patterns used to recall the past and imagine the future are strikingly similar. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging to show the brain at work, they have observed the same regions activated in a similar pattern whenever a person remembers an event from the past or imagines himself in a future situation. This challenges long-standing beliefs that thoughts about the future develop exclusively in the frontal cortex.
May 16, 2009
Best inight I have read in some time...

from: Failure is Everywhere…Don’t Underestimate Collateral Damage

….My biggest business failure was not an event, it was a long bungled process full of mistakes. I guess people would like failures to be packaged up quite simply around one decision, but I don’t think any ONE decision leads to failure. We are free to change our minds and therefore, mistakes can be undone and businesses and life’s put back on track. When failure comes, life feels like it halts around you and you go into awful damage control and cleanup. I have been there and done that and it’s awful. I will fail again no doubt, but I have many processes and procedures in place that should prevent a total damage control, life halting situation.

It’s the fear of failure that some times leads to failure and maybe I am lucky in business to have been in that hole.

I remember when I knew I was cooked back in 2001. It was not that the stock market had crushed me, my fund or my business, rather the stock market had crushed the people around me. I had a false sense of security from having gotten to cash quite quickly when the bubble imploded. I remember all the long talks with my new bearish friends that Phoenix was dead and there would be tumbleweeds blowing down Camelback quite soon.

Of course I was wrong (it’s happening now :) ), and in my glee for sidestepping the end of civilization, I forgot that my partners could be imploding. In fact they were.

My failure came from focusing solely on my little controllable world…

-Howard Lindzon