I was talking with a friend of mine the other day. He’s a former tech exec who now works in real estate development and his business has been a bit beaten up by the state of the economy. We got…
Month: February 2008
The dangers of pitching while on cold meds…
As I mentioned, I was half-dead last week with some kind of MTD (miscellaneous toddler disease) I picked up from my daughter. Last Friday I had a meeting I didn’t want to cancel, so I dragged my Nyquil-soaked butt to…
Life, the Universe and Everything is weirdly lumpy…
I need a new phrase. You’re doubtless familiar with the old adage "it never rains but it pours". It’s usually taken as a bad thing — you don’t just get a drop of rain, you get buckets of water. But…
Ye Olde-Schoole Email
It’s been a long time since I wrote a dead tech post. Logan (CTO) and I are almost exactly the same age. I’m not sure which of us was online first — probably him since he started coding pretty much…
Buy versus Build…
We had a question come up during a pitch the other week about where we draw the line between buy versus build with parts of our technology. I’m a fan of not re-inventing the wheel when you don’t need to,…