Welcome to Hector Sanchez's personal blog!

4491733487 b8aaab5680 o211 Welcome to Hector Sanchez's personal blog!Hello, my name is Hector Sanchez and welcome to my personal blog. This blog’s name synthetizes the to things that I’m most interested in: Technology and Businesses , although I’ll use it to blog about other things that interest me as well such as the Economy, Politics and World News.

If you want to know a little bit more about me, you can check the “About Me” page where I go into more details about myself.

I’ve found that having a blog is a great way to keep track of the things that we do and the stuff that comes to our minds at a given point in time. Having blogged since mid 2007, it surprises me a lot how my thoughts, concerns and ideas have evolved as time goes by, so a blog is like taking a video capture of your mind so to speak, and you can always go back in time and check what crossed your mind in the past.

Welcome again to my personal blog, and stay tunned!

Me and the Giant Leatherback Turtle

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Here is an old picture of me, when I was 5 years old, on the back of a giant turtle, on the beach of Melaque, Jalisco (Mexico). Local residents, always told us that this was a  “Caguama Turtle”, but by doing a research on the Internet, I believe that it is not a “Caguama Turtle”…

Procrastination in Video

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I don’t know about you but Procrastination is one of the demons I fight everyday with. It’s an everyday battle, that is reset every morning and won or lost at the end of the day. This is a war that lasts our entire lifetime, and that’s why we must never surrender. We must keep  fighting…

Virgin Galactic opens bookings for commercial space flights

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It looks like my dream of one day traveling to space might not be as far away as I had thought, as it is now possible to book a flight with Virgin Galactic. The cost is currently at $200k, with a deposit of $20k. It is still out of my reach right now but it…

Facebook is becoming too tempting for Governments and Politicians

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As we watch the development of political events in some Middle East and African countries affected by the so called “Facebook Revolution”, it has become clear that Facebook is clearing becoming a powerful tool to not only interact with friends, but to spark political change as well, which makes it very tempting for politicians and…

Some failure in life is inevitable

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As we are starting a new year, this video I found on Jonathan Fields’ blog, comes right on time at a moment in which many of us, are trying to get as much energy and motivation, to rethink our lives as we  start moving along the year 2011. This video, is a speech  from Harry Potter’s…

Building a team of outsourced workers

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Last week I started to hire outsourced workers again as I realize that if I want to make a living out of this internet marketing stuff someday, I have to leverage other people’s time and expertise and build a team. I had already hired Filipino workers in late 2008 and first half of 2009, following…

Steve Jobs on "Connecting the dots"

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Now that the year 2010 is a few days away to coming to end, I think this video from Stanford University, with Steve Jobs giving a speech to young students in 2005, brings us valuable advice that we can use ourselves if we want to rethink our lives in the year 2011. On the video…

"Word Lens": Instant translation with Iphone

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I just downloaded and installed this Iphone App called “Word Lens” that does instant translation of written words. You have to see it to believe it and understand how it does it, it’s pretty amazing. I had to pay $100 pesos (aprox US$10 dollars), in order to have the modules that translate from Spanish to…

How ideas are created

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I just found this video that illustrates the incubation process for ideas, and perhaps many of us have been experimented this process more than once, like for example when we are taking a shower or driving our car and all of a sudden an idea hit us, and sometimes we even have a dream and…

A business doesn't come with a handbook

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According to Wikipedia, an entrepreneur is “the type of personality who is willing to take upon himself a new venture or enterprise and accepts full responsibility for the outcome”. Starting a business online is still starting a business. Unlike a job, a franchise or an MLM – a business doesn’t come with a handbook From…