November 29th, 2006 | 
I have read several posts on board meetings lately, including a couple of insightful ones by Scott Converse, CEO of Clickcaster, discussing his first two board meetings (you can find them here and here). Brad Feld also has a great series on board meetings which you can find here. Having chaired, as I count ‘em [...]
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While you can’t say that any game that has 9 turnovers was a good one, yesterday’s matchup between the 7-3 Patriots and 9-1 Bears was at least a big one – for the Pats, at least. The Bears, with their outstanding 9-1 record (prior to yesterday’s game) are virtually assured a playoff birth. The Pats . [...] It’s about halfway through the 4th quarter for the companies I work with (all have fiscal year = calendar year). About this time during each quarter I reach a point that I think of as the hockey stick turning point, the point at which I move from being confident that there will be no bookings or [...]
My family and I trekked out to Scottsdale, Arizona to see my father over Thanksgiving. We’ve been out there many times and I’ve always wanted to ride (cycle) out there. So this year, I borrowed a bike case (thanks, Chris!), took my bike apart and loaded it up with all our other [...] As a beta tester of Vista, I’ve been hip-deep in the new operating system since it’s early releases. It’s been an interesting experience, but I can’t say that it’s been fun. Because of a crash of the RAID array on my previous XP installation, I decided to go with Vista as my one and only [...] No, this isn’t going to be some rant about dysfunctional families or having to eat the same gross Thanksgiving pie that Aunt Lucille has baked for the last 23 years. It’s more of a celebration of sorts. You see, a year ago this past Wednesday (the day before Thanksgiving), my wife, two children and I [...] I’ve been reading loads of fiction lately, but I squeezed in a couple of non-fiction books just to keep myself slightly aware of the real world. The first was iWoz by Steve Wozniak (duh). I was really disappointed in this book. The jacket has a quote from Guy Kawasaki that states that “iWoz is [...] As a somewhat active angel investor, I’ve come to the conclusion that too many startups are looking for money too early in their development these days. Perhaps this has always been the case, but it’s become more obvious to me in the last 6-12 months. In the last month, alone, I have seen three [...]
DaimlerChrysler’s Smart Car division has been spending gobs of money trying to make their diminutive vehicles acceptable to the US government and to American consumers as well. Compared to what Americans are used to, these things are microscopic. They’ve been sold in Europe for years (tiny cars are available in many other [...] There are always certain files on my computer, especially my laptop, that I want hidden from everyone but myself; just in case . . . While Windows has a built-in encryption solution, it’s anything but transparent or convenient. What I really want is a solution that does it’s job without me being overly conscious that [...] |
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