Tag Archives: Business

I had a conversation this week with a pretty important personal advisor wherein he proceeded to give me advice that was exactly the opposite of advice I had received on...

There is a big difference between being specialized and being pigeon-holed. Specialized has a positive connotation.  You are so good at the thing that you do that people seek you...

Below is a picture of my MacBook Pro.  You will notice the dent and the accompanying bubble in the aluminum.  This happened when I was traveling on Monday.  My bag...

A few weeks ago I was introduced to a company called Lush.  Lush is a global retailer in the business of hand-made cosmetics.  I had a look around their site...

I pay a lot of attention to things my wife says about business and shopping.  She has a great knack for seeing things in a way that I could never...

I have been in a lot of meetings and planning sessions where the focus was on understanding the big picture.  Where will we be in a year, three years, five...

I was listening to the podcast from TED Global by Tim Harford on trial and error and the God complex.  The basic premise of the podcast is that there is...

I am on my way to Memphis today, and we were saddled with a maintenance delay out of Raleigh this morning.  This was the first flight out of Raleigh this...

I was reading re-reading The Accidental Creative by Todd Henry today and a section of text jumped out at me that had not before.  There is a section where Mr....

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,...

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...

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...

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...