March 15th, 2007 | 
Jordan’s Furniture, a small chain of four furniture stores in New England, has been a marketing powerhouse for decades. While other chains and mom-and-pop stores advertising 30% off, everything must go, going out of business sales are commonplace, Jordan’s continues to expand and acquire new customers. They’re not the cheapest stores (while they used [...]
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Shawn Broderick over at Myriad Missives has a great post titled The Loser’s Curse that’s definitely worth a read for anyone pitching their deal to VCs. Shawn refers to Fred Wilson’s post of the same name. In his post, Shawn reflects on his failure to get venture capital for his last startup, Voxx. Voxx [...] I always chuckle when I hear a presentation by a new or prospective startup that “has no competition.” It’s an amazingly ignorant thing to state because it’s almost impossible to be true. In the most basic case, inertia and manual processes represent real competition. In the more likely case, if the idea has any [...] The old adage in sports is that defense wins games. It’s one that has shown itself to be true for all time and for all sports. Unlike many analogies that hold true between sports and business, though, this one does not. If you play defense in business, you will lose. It’s almost guaranteed. [...] After years of riding sport bikes – motorcycles with insane horsepower figures and even more insane hp/weight ratios – I moved on to cruisers several years ago. Cruisers are generally bigger and heavier than sport bikes. They move a bit slower and have somewhat less sensitive steering. They’re also more comfortable and accommodate a [...] If you hadn’t already heard, CompUSA is closing 100 stores nationwide (see locations below). The list is here. Rumors had it that our local store had guys in the street with signs advertising a big sale so my son and I trekked down to the store to confirm that we are about to lose the only [...] About a month ago, I posted about the dizzying array (for me) of stupid technical projects I had going on at the same time. One of the projects was installing a new RAID controller as part of my server rehab. I wanted to move from a 1TB array resulting in about 780GB of disk [...] Well . . . almost. I’m not completely over yet. As it turns out, while moving into WordPress isn’t a piece of cake, moving out of Community Server is really hard. So far, it’s taken a combination of RSS and XML manipulation and transfer; fooling around with databases – both manually and programmatically; and [...] |
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