Over on A VC today Fred Wilson shared that he was basically starting over on email in 2014. Archiving everything. Starting from scratch. Given his position and popularity I am sure that Fred gets quite a bit of email, much more then me. But I was feeling a bit overwhelmed myself back in November as Black […]
Continue reading →It is amazing what nCrowd has accomplished since May of 2011 when I joined the company. At that time we were active in two cities and using an off the shelf e-commerce platform. Today we are a leader in the local commerce market with sales from Boston to Honolulu, have built a proprietary platform (along with […]
Continue reading →Interesting infographic depicting average household income by Myer-Briggs personality type. A timely reminder that different people have different personalities and are driven by different things. I, by the way, am an ENTJ. Hat tip to to Time. Here is the full infographic.
Continue reading →Recently Jeff Hilimire wrote an article on mobile manners. The money sentence was this: And if you’re having a conversation with someone you really shouldn’t be checking your phone or device constantly. Yep. When I first started managing people back in the day I reached a point where I could not deal with all the […]
Continue reading →So I did something really bad today. I cancelled a meeting with a prominent entrepreneur/investor at the last minute. For the second time. Without going deep into the details my issue was legit. I had an urgent employee oriented operational task that I needed to complete. It was an non-optional business demand. And I had […]
Continue reading →Amidst a growing rash of lawsuits across the country that might just dork up the whole concept of internships I made my way up to KinetixHR to talk with their class of student workers over lunch. My friends there said all I had to do was talk about myself, my career choices, and what I had learned along […]
Continue reading →Based on my position on the matter in the past readers of FoG will be quite surprised that I have joined the growing number of Americans working from home for the moment. It's interesting situation. I was given a project that required my undivided attention. None of the team that I am working with is […]
Continue reading →Willie King over at WorthPoint reached out to me earlier this month via LinkedIn, "Congrats Lance on 2 years" he said. How time flies. He is talking about my time at Half Off Depot/nCrowd. It has been quite busy. So busy that I have not really had a chance to practice my preach of updating […]
Continue reading →Last Thursday night Atlanta Public Schools had a meeting at Grady High School to discuss the shooting incident that took place on its campus Wedensday morning. I attended the meeting. My opinion is Atlanta Public Schools is not acting urgently enough, is not being vigilant enough, and is not communicating with the community enough on how it […]
Continue reading →My daughter is a freshman at Grady High School in Atlanta. Grady is an intown public school that is a part of the Atlanta Public Schools system, about a mile from the center of Midtown Atlanta. We leave about a mile from the school. We live in the city and send our kids to public […]
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