I was at lunch with a local successful entrepreneur today, and he shared these four questions to ask when figuring out whether or not an idea is worth pursuing.  I thought they were really good, so sharing with the rest of the world: Is it commercially viable? ( somewhat obvious, but a good place to […]

Over the last few weeks I have realized how valuable other people’s opinions are, and furthermore how valuable collaboration is.  This is not a universal truth.  Glenn Beck and Bill O’Reilly have lots of opinions, but I am not sure how valuable those opinions are. Sometimes you need people around to answer your questions.  Sometimes […]

We have had an uptick of break-ins in our neighborhood.  Apparently the security companies are aware of this, and one of them and paid us a visit over the weekend to sell us a new security system.  When they came to the door, they started their pitch with “You just need to put our sign […]

I was in a meeting a couple of days ago with a non-profit organization that is doing great things ( or at least trying to ).  They are building out a donor platform that I think could be really interesting down the road.  The application is about 90-95% completed, but can’t be launched because they […]

I was sitting at home this weekend watching some of the football games, and had the opportunity to watch both Apple ( primarily iPad, but the same is true of iPhone ) and Android ( various devices ) commercials.  It made me think of a recent conversation with Anders about this subject The contrast is […]

I was in a meeting the other day at a local technology company.  There were seven people in there with me, and one on the phone.  Every person involved in the meeting was using a Macbook Pro notebook, and had an iPhone sitting next to them. The lesson for me was not that Apple makes […]