Posts filed under “Personal”

Seattle Entrepreneurs – Looking for extra income?

My girlfriend sent me this opportunity “as a new and creative way to augment my income since I now have a non-traditional work schedule.” She also added that since I had experienced malaria as a child, my prior experience would be an edge. Seattle researchers to pay volunteers to get malaria The Seattle Biomedical Research [...]

Starting from scratch – it's different this time

I’ve been in and around startups for a while now but even though I’ve been at the ‘idea on paper’ stage for one of them, and have been a key part of the team at others, I’ve never been the final resting place for the proverbial buck. It’s different this time. The level of pressure, [...]

On failure and success

I was told about two great posts today. The first is by Peter Rip at Crosslink Capital about “failing fast and failing often.” You have to get into the market, see what works and adapt. The classic venture model has been to fund to milestones 12-18 months out. In consumer web services, there are only [...]

Marketing Innovation is Everywhere

This post on marketing innovation in the coffee market was sent to me and I had to share it: Sex sells. Usually, it sells things like beer, various liquors and – of course – fatty fast food hamburger, but some Seattle area businesses are using it to sell something else entirely: coffee. dinner for schmucks [...]

Sysinternals – If you're running Windows, you should check them out

There’s a great post on Michael.net about Sysinternals – Michael has listed each one with a brief description about what they do. It saves you a couple of hundred clicks on Microsoft’s site. These are a collection of utilities (that were acquired by Microsoft) that let you really see what’s going on in your computer. [...]

Relationships Matter

Fred Wilson has a post up called “A Return to Royalty?” in which he talks about the fact that if Hillary Clinton is elected, then the past four Presidents will have come from just two families. To tell the truth, I don’t find this surprising at all. I think in any endeavor, success is always [...]

The Importance of Training & Practice

I came across an amazing story in the UK’s Daily Mail which was making the rounds on the front page of Reddit. It was about a British Airways flight that flew through the dust cloud from a volcanic eruption near Indonesia in 1982 and lost all four engines. With unbelievable restraint, Captain Eric Moody addressed [...]

Magnusson Park – Doggie Heaven

If you are a dog owner in Seattle, you owe it to your four-legged friend to take him or her to Magnusson Park at 65th & Sand Point Way. It’s a huge off-leash park with areas to play fetch in, a secure beach to swim from and even a separate park for ‘small and shy [...]