I was in a meeting today where there was a lively discussion about vendor selection. One of the participants quoted someone ( and I wish I could remember who now! ), basically saying that the future of the next generation will largely be determined by where you call home. Later in that same call, there […]
Tag Archives: Business
The Wind
I was watching Voyage of the Dawn Treader last weekend. There are a series of scenes while the crew are on the way to Dragon Island where they are in an incredible storm, and then in complete calm. The scenes from the storm are intense: everyone on board is just trying to hang on and stay […]
Birchbox – Gifts From Me to Me
My wife got her first Birchbox delivery today. In case you have not heard about this great little company, it’s worth having a look around on their site. The site works like this: You pay a fee every month For that fee, you get samples of the latest and greatest beauty supplies being used by […]
Skype Feedback and Chat History
It seems as though in the last few weeks since I upgraded to the new version of Skype for Mac, every time I get off of a Skype call I get this annoying survey request. I have poked around on the web for ways to turn this off, but can’t seem to find any solution. […]
Patents And Uniqueness
I was reading a post from the blog of TaxiSurfer this morning, and it reminded me of a few conversations I have had over the last couple of weeks with software developers / engineers about patenting their work. Patents have been in the news a good bit lately, and companies like Google are buying up […]
Why You Should NOT Read Business Books
I read a lot of books about business, but it just recently came to me that I was reading them for the wrong reasons. I’ve always read books with the expectation that I would get the right information on how to build my own thing. Take these characteristics from this guy and those characteristics from […]
What a doctors’ visit really costs
There is a school of thought that one of the ways to help fix the health care problems in the US is for everyone to understand the true cost of providing care. If you have insurance, what you pay does not resemble in any way the actual cost is. There are many articles where you […]
A Recap of SXSW 2011
I just got home today from a great but tiring trip to Austin for the SXSW Festival. This is the first time I have attended the event, and it was both more and less than what I expected. The conference was much larger than I anticipated. The rumors put the number of Interactive attendees at […]
LegalZoom and Password Resets
The other day I got an alert from LegalZoom telling me that I had some filing deadlines approaching for a company I have an interest in. When I clicked on the link and went to log in, I had one of those moments where I just could not remember my account information. I tried my […]
What is the optimal company headcount?
I got a topic from Kade Ross (@kadeross) last night related to an article about the effect of increasing headcount on employee productivity. You can read the article here. The gist of the article is this: for every 10% you increase company headcount, productivity drops by 6.3% for each employee. Kade calls this the borg, […]