Archive for the ‘Business’ Category

The dreaded ‘Idea’ — Part 1

Friday, July 30th, 2010

Ah, the "Idea." Hardly will we find anything more polarizing. For seemingly half of us, just the word "idea" alone seems to conjure high-mindedness, nobility and is lauded up above so much else. The other half snubs/thumbs their noise at the word and "ideas" hardly even register as a ...

Is this Google’s long awaited Google Drive?

Sunday, February 14th, 2010

[caption id="attachment_909" align="aligncenter" width="469" caption="Google file storage"][/caption] These screenshots popped up today, looking something like the much discussed, much anticipated "Google Drive".  In mid January, Google announced plans to start rolling out cloud storage.  Seems you get a free gigabyte of file storage -- for any type of file and may ...

Failure, Planning, Interruption, Inspiration, Immutability and Selling your By-Products

Friday, February 12th, 2010

Business lessons from Jason Fried Jason Fried of 37signals.com spoke at BIG Omaha in 2009.  His talk hit home hard.  Here's a sort of summary of what Jason said there. Listen to it if you'd like. (Approximate time: 20 minutes.) Failure "Fail early, fail often." rarely makes sense. Failure only instructs on what NOT ...