Last weekend while trying to make some changes to a DSL connection, I realized something about DSL that I never really thought about, and had some thoughts about marketing I wanted to share.

DSL: A dying market?

What I was trying to do was hook up a router to a DSL connection so that more than one computer could hook to it. I downloaded some instructions online, and called tech support to try and figure it out.

They were unwilling to help much, and...

Every single great thing in the world started with an idea. Whether born of necessity or something someone did for fun, it started with an idea. It may have been an idea that built on another idea, or thousands of ideas. Everything from the wheel to a multicore processor started from an idea.

So where do you get your ideas from? And more importantly, what do you do with them?

I'm a person who undoubtedly has ADD. And one of the benefits of this is tons of ideas flowing...

Ray Kroc earned over $500 million in his lifetime. But his successful franchise didn't come to fruition until he was in his 60s. He purchased McDonalds at 57 years old.

He was a musician, and ambulance driver and sold blenders and milkshake machines for most of his life. He started and failed at many businesses along the way.

Harland "Colonel" Sanders start being successful in his 60s, at 65 he used his social security check to start franchising his restaurants....