Tag Archives: Business

  1. What We’re Not Talking About

    With the flurry of blogs and info being spewed out between yesterday and today about the coming of the Google Phone, the battle for mobile device supremacy is getting ready...

  2. Who vs. What

    I remember reading an interview with the head of M&A at Google ( at the time ) where he was asked a series of questions about what made the companies...

  3. Do You Think Craig Newmark Cares?

    I was reading some news this morning, and came across this post about Craigslist blocking Yahoo Pipes, and indirectly a mash-up for a company called Flippity. There are cries abounding...

  4. Getting Hit By A Bus

    Inevitably, if you work long enough, you will hear this phrase uttered in the context of some possible crisis. “We need to make sure we are covered in case Joe...

  5. “Now I’m Just A Manager”

    I played tennis on Sunday with a guy that works in the server hardware group over at IBM. We were in between games, and chatting about our respective careers. When...

  6. Loyalty

    I am not a car guy. I never really have been. I like driving really nice cars, but don’t like paying for them. As a result, I drive a 1995...

  7. The network effect – lesson learned

    Recently the pastor of my church here in Raleigh received a request to assist the people in Pakistan whose homes were torched and burned and whose were people badly injured...

  8. Would you buy services from this company?

    I was at one of my favorite restaurants yesterday here in Raleigh, the Edwards Mill Grill. I went to the bathroom and saw the picture below as an advertisement displayed...

  9. Bank of America Has Issues

    I recently went thru the process of refinancing my house. My original mortgage was with BoA. I initially contacted my original loan officer and asked if there was an opportunity...

  10. Tennis ladders and competition

    I am playing on tennis ladder at the local city park here in Raleigh. It’s my first time playing on a ladder, though I have played tennis on and off...

  11. Does a rising tide float all boats?

    I went to hear a lecture tonight on the campus of NC State given by Dr. William Easterly. Dr. Easterly is renown for his stance, overly simplified by me, that...

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