Back in December I wrote an article called All About The Money. My basic point was that many great entrepreneurs are money motivated. And I have no problem admitting that I am money motivated as well. The day after I wrote this Dave Willams came out with this Facebook post: The problem with business is […]
Continue reading →Not me. Andrew Mason. The founder and CEO of Groupon. His letter to employees and the fact he publicly posted it because he knew it would leak are classic. People of Groupon, After four and a half intense and wonderful years as CEO of Groupon, I’ve decided that I’d like to spend more time with […]
Continue reading →So a long time ago at a place about a mile away I worked at this little startup called MindSpring. MindSpring was kinda like Zappo's before Zappo's was just a gleam in Tony Hsieh's eye. The company was completely core values based. To cite one of them, we were customer driven. We also had something we called […]
Continue reading →With Groupon mishandling its IPO, Facebook closing down it's Deals offering and Yelp cutting back on its deals staff, pundits are starting to question the viability of the deals market. Lots and lots and lots and lots of questioning. These folks are as wrong as those that said Facebook Deals would be the death of Groupon. Recently Jim […]
Continue reading →Last night Abby and I were having a nice little stroll to dinner when the subject of Facebook came up. I mentioned to her Mark Zuckerberg's reported comments via IM about Facebook users. "They trust me. Dumb f***s." Don't know if the story is true or not. I do know that Facebook has a pretty […]
Continue reading →One of the more rational voices during the recent chatter about startup events was Michael Blake. He asked the rather simple question “are there specific events that you think have outlived their usefulness?” and threatened to throw me under the bus in retaliation if I mentioned StartupLounge. I am sure there are lots of buses […]
Continue reading →Last night I had the pleasure to present to a group of folks that are in the Georgia Tech College of Management Business Plan Competition run by Alan Flury. I have been involved in past years. It is a great program that has been the start for operational companies such as Accelereyes and Sentrinsic. The […]
Continue reading →It being Festivus it seems quite appropriate to air a grievance during an otherwise perfect holiday season. My grievance is with American Express. I am deeply disappointed with them. I had an AMEX charge card before I had a credit card. It was the first card I owned and used. Honestly was surprised that they […]
Continue reading →It is not very user friendly. This morning I found a nice message in my mail box. A snippet of what it contained is below. Yes 336 messages awaiting my response. Each with its own little check box spread across 27 distinct pages. And to quote LinkedIn's help pages "Deleting an item from your 'Inbox' […]
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