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The further along I get in my venture, the more I realize how important knowing what I am good at (and as importantly what I am not good at) is....

One of the things I would like to see from Twitter is the ability to redirect traffic from one account to another.  For instance, if I owned @scottbarstow and @sbarstow,...

As the hottest summer ever (OK maybe not, but it sure feels like it) rolls on, here are my must-reads for the month of August.  I tend to be reading...

I am (obviously) not in show business or music, and so there are times when I tend to think that people that are very famous have stumbled into it.  They...

Yesterday I went to sign up for Audible, the audio book site.  I have never been a huge fan of audio books in the past, but I can’t keep up...

Update:  AirBnB to offer $50,000 guarantees  I have spent a lot of time thinking about the benefits of the rent economy.  I have been working through the business case for...

When the federal government bailed out Chrysler a few years back, I was firmly in the camp that they should have been allowed to die.  Chrysler has been a bad...

I watched an interview with Chris Sacca a few weeks ago wherein he talked about a number of topics of interest, including: How he got started in venture funding How...

There was a time when I watched a ton of football, both college and pro.  It was not uncommon for me to spend most of the day Sunday watching the...

It’s amazing what I find out about how our home life operates when the Chief Home Officer (aka my wife) is not here.  One of the more disturbing things I...

Every now and again you get a swift kick in the side of the head about what matters. I have had a running gun battle with a guy at one...

I am really interested in the emerging Rent Economy (not sure if this is a real term, but it sounds good).  What I mean by the Rent Economy is the...

I love my Kindle (even though I don’t technically own a kindle, I own an iPad and Android tablet that have the Kindle reader on them).  I have read far...

When we moved into our house, we found a great builder here in Raleigh to do some work on our house.  He was (and is) a true craftsman.  The work...

After spending the day Friday using Spotify, I found a few things that leave me wanting.  In fact, they leave me wanting to the point that I am considering canceling...

As a developer of applications that are generally specialized and at times focused on a particular company, it always bothered me that those apps would be available in the general...

I read today with much disillusionment a recap of the speech of Kevin Turner, Microsoft’s COO, given at the Worldwide Partner Conference. In the speech, Mr. Turner ran through the...

If you have kids, you are no doubt familiar with the refrain of “I really want to buy X” or “I need a way to make more money so I...