Spreading Vision

One of the biggest challenges of running a company is making sure everyone shares the same vision.  Getting everyone moving in the same direction is worse than herding cats.  Each person has their own perspective on how things should be run and usually they don’t have enough information to see the big picture.

Nick Loper – Great Blog Posts

I regularly write blog posts, many of which aren’t as well thought out or researched as they should be.  It’s hard enough just trying to remind myself to write them, much less have something original & genuinely interesting to talk about.  I have followed another blogger, Nick Loper, for a couple of years now and have found many of his contributions to be really good.  … read more “Nick Loper – Great Blog Posts”

My To Do List

My to do list is ridiculously large and consists of items like:

  • Christmas cards for clients
  • Build case studies for web design (separate ones for programming vs CMS vs ecommerce?)
  • Start Adwords to GWO test for CT
  • Go to programmer networking events for recruiting

73 separate items to do, to be exact.

Wall Street Excess: Government Sponsored

You hear about the multimillion dollar annual bonuses given to Wall Street employees?

That’s your money.

The most popular form of paying private equity firms is a concept called “2 and 20”. What it means is that these firms get 2% of the total investment each year AND 20% of the profits. No self respecting private business owner or manager would ever agree to such obscene terms.… read more “Wall Street Excess: Government Sponsored”