Tag Archives: Business

If you are like most people, you have inevitably come out of a meeting with less than perfect notes and had to try to recall important items from the discussion....

You woke up this morning with a great idea, one that will change both your life and the lives of everyone you know.  It’s the next big thing, for sure....

Chapman’s Ice Cream is legendary in Canada.  They are a family-owned and operated business in northern Ontario.  What makes Chapman’s a great story is not the quality of their ice...

There are at least a couple of ways to think about yesterday’s passing of Steve Jobs. One is to mourn the loss of the iconic corporate leader of our generation....

The latest ad from Google is the most compelling ad I have ever seen them create.  I saw it on Sunday.  If you have not watched it, check it out...

I was listening to a podcast by Rebecca MacKinnon last night.  You can watch the video here.  Rebecca is an activist campaigning to retake the internet, which by her definition...

I watched PressPausePlay this week.  If you have not watched it, I highly recommend it.  You can download it for free now.  The movie is a documentary about the democratization...

I was at a client site the other day and they were talking about some exciting new initiatives that were getting ready to kick off.  While there was a good...

I was reading an article by Premal Shah of Kiva this past week.  The focus of the article was on how to do reviews for the people that work for...

I was at FashionSpark this past weekend, which is the fashion show associated with SparkCon here in Raleigh.  I was there, not because I know anything about fashion (other than...

How often do you Google yourself?  I try to do this at least once a month to find out what is being said about me, or what comes up in...

A good friend posted an article on Facebook the other day about the network effect on extremism in modern life.  The author, Bill Davidow, is a veteran of business and...

I have been reading and studying the book End Malaria this week.  It’s a compilation of 62 authors who came together to help, as you might imagine, end malaria in Africa....

I have been running Rocket Hangar for about a year now.  When I started the company, I had two primary goals:  1. Do interesting and valuable work. 2. Don’t go...

There is a new bakery that just opened up here in Raleigh, very close to our house, called The Upper Crust Bakery.  We have made it one of our new...

The video below is Kevin Rose’s interview with Dennis Crowley of Foursquare.  I have really come to enjoy Kevin Rose’s interview style while watching / listening to the Foundations series....

I was talking with a good friend yesterday about a business opportunity that has come across my plate.  He has been very successful, and seems to have a knack for...

There are two really cool things happening in drones right now.  I started DroneOS with Anders Brownworth earlier this year because we believe that great things are going to happen...