Year: 2010
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Hiring: Learning From the Behavior of Crowds
There are no simple ways to determine if you’re hiring the right person for a job and, in my experience,…
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General Business
Starting Up on a Shoestring
A few weeks ago, I ran across a box full of photos I had taken a while back. Actually, they…
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Leadership
Yes, the US “Won” the Winter Olympics
37 medals, count ‘em. More than the US has ever won in the Winter Olympics (the previous US record was…
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Startup Visa – Time to Wake Up, America
Don’t even get me started about the sorry state of American technological and economic competitiveness and our complete ignorance of…
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Every Company Needs a Board of Directors – Startups Too
OK, maybe not every company. Raw startups – two people in a garage kinda thing – shouldn’t waste their time…
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Can Apple Take on the World and Win?
It’s difficult not to respect all that Apple has achieved both as a computer company and as a consumer electronics…
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Computers
Build Platforms on Platforms
Being a software guy myself, I often find that I dig a little deeper into the successes and failures of…
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Misc Thoughts
Different Perspectives. Marital Bliss.
A few days after my wife and I recently celebrated our 21st anniversary we spent about a week in the…
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Forget Esperanto, the Village People are the True Int’l Language
I spent the commencement of the new decade with my family and friends on the beaches of the Dominican Republic. …
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Does the Loudest Person You Hear Give the Best Advice?
I’m fortunate that I get to work with many startups, both independently and with TechStars where I’m a mentor. There…
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