Silicon Valley Money and Idea Network
Amazing companies, great founders, powerful investors and driven CEOs – all in one (in my case two) influence maps. Definitely take a close look and draw your own conclusions!
The Unstuffed Life
Charles Dickens once wrote, “Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.” Yet while many seem to understand this principle wh…
Bring on the Snake Oil Sales person and Mr Know it ALL
As a follow on to Cloud Camp Seattle, I met two particularly distasteful people, Mr. Snake Oil Salesperson and Mr. Know it ALL. Both are doing a disservice to everyone, and here is why these people should not be involved in your cloud computing project. Mr. Snake Oil Sales Person This is a huge problem [...]
Starting a New Series on Entrepreneurialism
I continually talk about how starting a new company can be one of the smartest things you can do in the current recession. Especially if you are part of the growing legions of the unemployed for 14 weeks or more, it is going to be a difficult 2010 for many people, and many of the [...]
10 Reasons When you know it is time to fire your Client
Everyone in consulting at some point has reached the end of the rope with a client, either through nonpayment, not listening, or any number of reasons that someone can come up with. Not all businesses are built equally and even though they will hire a very high priced client, when they stop listening, or when [...]
Youth Venture Seattle gets broken into needs a little holiday help
Youth Venture Seattle is one of the very few organizations that are trying to help kids at an early age learn to think innovatively, have some awesome experiences along the way, and become the leaders that we will need in this country tomorrow and today. The cool part about Youth Venture is that they are [...]
Unignited Startups get advice from Andy Sack
Andy Sack is one of the cooler VC’s in the Seattle area, mostly because he blogs, and blogs frequently enough that you do not forget about him and what he is doing and who he is working with. He has posted on his blog an interesting set of ideas for startups that have not ignited [...]
Cloud Computing Making Forensics Easier
Think that cloud computing would add to the complexity of your computer forensics program? The resounding answer to this is no, by leveraging the inbuilt abilities of cloud computing, computer forensics becomes an “on demand” service. One of the very nice things about cloud computing is that you basically exist in an on demand system, [...]
