The most successful people usually say that one of the reasons they succeeded was because they loved what they were doing. Although they definitely don’t lie, it makes some of us wonder whether we truly love what we do or how can we  find something we’d love more so that we don’t miss that opportunity to  succeed.

If you go down that path of exploration it can take you a lifetime to figure it out. The reason is that you’d have to answer the fundamental and complex question of what love really is. And that’s a difficult one. But if you happen to agree with any of the following versions, that sometimes love is something you just get used to it, something you end up investing a lot of time with,  something that you don’t necessarily like but ends up making you feel good, then maybe you would agree that is just a state of mind that all of us could probably manipulate more or less (OK, some luck is always needed…)

What I am trying to say here is that instead of trying too hard to find out what we love to do we can just learn to love what we already do. What we have decided it was a good choice for us and have now invested a good amount of time and effort with. It can take us some time to change the way we look at it, but actually just by committing to it we can drastically increase our chances of succeeding throughout that journey. After all succeeding into something it will make us fall in love with it for sure!

At first there were barter and gifts. Then the commodity money came in. Then some of my great ancestors created some standardized coinage. Lately we are using bills and banknotes and even more recently plastic money has become the norm.

Time for a change in the history of money. After all, the modern economic system doesn’t seem to work perfectly. So, what’s next?

Pay with a Tweet - Case Study - OMG version from Leif on Vimeo.

Pay with a Tweet is a new form of payment! A social form of currency based on a simple idea: ” the value of people talking about your product is sometimes higher than the money you would get for it.”  In simple terms, Pay with a Tweet gives people the opportunity to sell their work i.e. a book teaser, a music demo, a coupon by just asking you to share the news in your personal twitter or facebook network.

The idea has been already awarded in Cannes Lions and seems to start becoming a trend. It was about time for social media to start proving their economic value I suppose…

Interesting video on where our world is heading. Take a look on tomorrow’s technology today!

Pranav Mistry is the inventor of SixthSense, a wearable device that enables new interactions between the real world and the world of data.

There are many reasons why you have to watch this movie. Beyond the fact that this is the story behind one of the most incredible social phenomenons in the world, the movie is amazingly well directed and unexpectedly fair-minded (or at least plausible enough) to depict the facts and events that contributed into the creation of the most successful social network website in the world, Facebook.

If you are an aspiring entrepreneur however, you may have a few more exclusive reasons to watch this movie. There are some interesting entrepreneurship lessons coming and I am sharing 2 of those here, which I found to be so accurately addressed in this movie:

The Purpose vs. The Money
The movie shows how Mark Zuckerberg was passionate to make this website the coolest and biggest social network in the world, instead of focusing on how to make money out of it. Money is of course the final outcome of any successful entrepreneurial venture, however value is not about money; it is about the purpose. Facebook doesn’t make money but it worth billions! How come? They have the right purpose to exist and deliver what people want from a social network. The potential to make vast amounts of money in the near future is of course very high given the enormous user base they have achieved, but also tricky, as they will have to find more creative ways to earn revenue, beyond just advertisement. Regardless, from an entrepreneurial point of view, Facebook founder is already the youngest billionaire of the world!

The importance of a single leader
Another interesting fact that is being effectively pointed out in the movie, is the importance of clear leadership in any entrepreneurial venture. As in most of the cases, many people contributed to make Facebook the phenomenon it is today, but having a single leader on the wheel to take the final decisions and risks is always critical in any case. Opinions may vary, but it looks like Mark Zuckerberg did play this role quite effectively, leading the venture into the direction he believed was the right one to take, regardless the strong leverage that many people around him tried to have on his moves. Despite the fact he made serious mistakes he later had to pay for, he definitely won the game by doing things his way.