Archive for the ‘Entrepreneurship’ Category
Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
I'm running an office March Madness tournament primarily because I like to compete but also because I think its a good way to build up a little team cohesiveness amongst our very distributed organization. This is the second year and I've now made the connection that this is a pretty ...
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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
Kevin Merritt over at Blist posted what is to me an inspirational list of differences between a startup and a big company. I work at a big company, one of the biggest in fact. As much as I tell myself I want out I haven't done it yet. In response ...
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Sunday, March 16th, 2008
I was at the Houston Museum of Natural Science today checking out the exhibit on Leonardo da Vinci. Wow. I must not have been paying attention in school because I didn't realize the absolute genius of this man. As I was walking through the exhibits I was thinking how much ...
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Friday, March 14th, 2008
This week I was in a user group for an application we use at HP. As the group was discussing pain points we were struggling with how to organize, how to contact each other, how to collaborate and discuss ideas...all the common problems that social networks are designed to solve ...
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Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
I bought myself an iPhone for Christmas and one of the sick habits I have is to go through Google Reader before I even get out of bed in the morning. I always have good stuff to read but this morning I almost jumped out of bed, all fired up ...
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Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
Many of the ideas that I contemplate are very simple. So simple that I spend time online trying to find that person or group that is already doing it. I usually don't find someone or if I do find someone it seems they aren't executing very well. I came across ...
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Saturday, February 2nd, 2008
I stumbled onto a new show the other night that feeds my Entrepreneur in Training needs and also my love for all things HD. It's called Startup Junkies and its on the Mojo network. I believe only one episode has aired thus far, but Mojo has a great web site ...
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Friday, February 1st, 2008
This month has jumped off to a great start. After a week full of meetings I actually was able to get some work done today. It was a good to be producing instead of talking about producing. Tomorrow I'm going to knock out 9 miles at Memorial and then get ...
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Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
Until I figure out a way to sustain my rock and roll lifestyle with my own business I rely on HP for my funding. I do a good job at work, I'm fairly well-respected and I get results. In my opinion HP definitely gets their money's worth. I don't get ...
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Friday, January 25th, 2008
There have been several times where I see an announcement about some new service or web app that is almost exactly what I have been thinking about doing at some point. I don't think that is very uncommon though. Lots of people have ideas. That's the easy part. Putting your ...
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