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 company for a long time, and it seemed like a good time to shoot them in the head and be done. Lo and behold, today […]
Tag Archives: Business
Giving Before Asking
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 he made (and lost) his first fortune by leveraging student loans for grad school What he looks for in entrepreneurs (It’s not necessarily what you […]
Living Without Snail Mail
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 have discovered this week is how much mail we get that is utter waste. Every day our mailbox is crammed full of catalogs, credit card […]
The Rent Economy – Plumgear
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 host of new companies that will rent things that have been traditional buy items. I ran across a company last night that rents designer baby […]
Surviving and Thriving
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 he did was first rate, and at the time he had all the work he could do. Then 2008 hit. I just saw him again […]
Why I Am Excited About Apple’s Volume Purchase Program
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 public’s store. I was really excited to see the news about about Apple’s Volume Purchase Program, mainly because it now facilitates private transactions between developers […]
What’s Going On at Microsoft?
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 company’s list of rivals in various markets, ridiculing them in turn. Of Salesforce.com’s Marc Benioff, he said “We now have a humongous pacifier to stick […]
Business 101
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 can do Y.” I hear it a good bit in my house, and recently have decided that it’s time to teach my kids some lessons […]
Voicemail is Dead
When was the last time you got a meaningful voicemail that you actually listened to? I am guessing it’s been years. The reason is that no one cares about it anymore, at least that I know of. When someone calls me and leaves a message, I rarely listen to it. The only exception I make […]
Forget you, Abercrombie
I am going on a trip tomorrow and needed some new jeans. I happened to be at one of the local shopping malls and this morning for something else, so I decided to check a few of the stores there. Because I have unusually long legs (apparently), it is usually very difficult for me to […]