There was a “pro-business” Supreme Court ruling yesterday that scares me as a small business owner. At issue were campaign contributions from corporations to political campaigns (and I assume PACs and the like).
The losing side is lamenting that under the new ruling, the wealthy will have a greater influence over politics by using corporations as [...]
It has been a little over a year since I created a new venture with Nicholas Holland. We created Side Hobby LLC after Nashville’s first Startup Weekend to pursue our project gpsAssassin.
When we first started out we were (foolishly, but commonly) optimistic that it would just be a little 3 month side hobby (thus the [...]
I just read an article in the Nashville Business Journal about some ambiguous program filed under the keyword “entrepreneur”1. Read Chamber wants to lure tech start-ups to see what I mean.
First off, I can’t even tell what the article is about. Is it about some Chamber initiative? Is it about the Accelerator2 program at [...]
I was diving down the interstate in my truck with my wife and kids. All of the sudden I look to the left and there is an overturned car in the median. It looks like the car has been there a while, but I can see the legs of two passengers who are still [...]
One of the goals that I have is to help nurture the entrepreneurial spirit in my community. Specifically we have a growing technology community that has some thriving startups (as well as some not-yet-thriving startups). I want to help them work together and promote the city / state as a whole.
That is why I [...]
If I am going to be successful it is going to come down to execution. For me, procrastination and/or letting tasks fall through the cracks is my #1 threat. I know how to write code that works and scales. I know how to build databases for storing and reporting on large amounts of data quickly. [...]
I went to the Nashville Technology Council’s roundtable on Venture Capital tonight. (see Venture Capitalists Reveal: How to secure Funding).
Courtney Ross did a great job moderating a conversation with Rachael Qualls (Angel Capital Group), Vic Gatto (Solidus Company), and Sid Chambless (Nashville Capital Network). It was a good overview of how venture and angel funding [...]
This weekend Sabrina went to the wedding of a friend in East Tennessee. She took Carter (5) and Jacob (3) with her.
Apparently, there were quite a few kids there. There was also plenty of Halloween candy. Which makes the report I got back all the more perplexing.
Carter set up shop at the reception. He was [...]
I have been neglecting my blog. With more and more web conversation taking place outside of the “blogosphere”, it is a refrain I am hearing from more and more people. The thing is, people seem to be bummed that their blogs are going neglected. I am thinking this is going to result in a resurgence [...]
I love Microsoft Excel. Unfortunately Excel on the Mac is not as easy to work with as Excel on the PC. One major difference is the lack of ODBC connections without third party software. This has caused me to look to web-based spreadsheets like Google Docs, but unfortunately those leave me wanting as [...]
