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Amy Poehler, wisdom, teamwork and the art of improv

September 22, 2009

Hulu left the best parts of the interview out and I hope to be able to find them to piece this together, but the video below comes the closest.

Among the gems:
“Playing with good players makes you look really good.” This works in life and in business. Play with the smart, funny, talented, dedicated and passionate [...]

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Listen to the groundhog

March 2, 2009

I love Groundhog’s Day. It is a silly holiday that you can just hype up and people giggle at.
When reading a post from Chris Brogan today, along with my Wall Street Journal, The Waterboy and a healthy dose of Morning Joe, I’ve come to a conclusion about this economic mess. The economy prognosticators have [...]

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Four stages of a on-line service company

January 25, 2009

I was reading and commenting on a post by Bob Scoble in which he rails on Facebook for bumping Joel Comm due to him having too many friends, fans, etc. which probably just amounted to a whole bunch of traffic out to Joel’s friends for which he should probably be footing the bill.
It got [...]

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Businesses that look small are huge, as long as they stick to the knitting

January 22, 2009

Television adds ten pounds. It also add a few hundred square feet to a restaurant if featured on the Food Network or the Travel Channel. Case in point.
Last weekend, we were in St. Louis for the NSCAA. Our one goal was to seek out and eat a Pointersaurus pizza at Pointer’s Pizza. For those of [...]

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Some things I know

December 20, 2008

I just got done speaking with an American Express rep to pay my bill. I had to call them because I missed the bill pay window between 3:00-7:00am where their web site will actually work to pay my bill.
It got to think about stuff I “know” to be true, even though other dogs swear they [...]

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What would you do if you had $1 million dollars?

December 10, 2008

Dear President-elect Barack Obama;
I am a small business owner. I do quite well for myself as I am in a knowledge-based business servicing the youth sporting market and the retail services industries. I also dabble a bit in coffee and Web 2.0 consulting.
I was running some numbers this afternoon on the bail-out plans that [...]

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How to profit from stupid and sloth

November 14, 2008

I subscribe to the Wall Street Journal. So do hundreds of my neighbors and I know exactly who they are.
The WSJ gets delivered to my front door every morning by a carrier with the Dayton Daily News. About a year ago, I noticed that the mailing label in the upper right hand corner of my copy of [...]

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Email and peeing…

July 30, 2008

Reposted from a July 29, 2008 blog entry on Media Post. Not terribly exciting news when a dog does it, but when people start “multi-tasking” to this level, makes news….
About 59% of email users said that they check their messages while in the bathroom–up 6 percentage points from last year, according to AOL Mail’s [...]

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The real death of the Dayton Daily News

April 20, 2008

For those of you who may not know, I was with the Dayton Daily News from 1998-2002. It was perhaps the most meaningful period of my life, in which I learned how to write objectively, think independently, treasure really, really talented people around me, learned how to change the world with little more than a [...]

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BUSTED!!!

September 25, 2007

Rufus got BUSTED by the Englewood Police today as we were walking along Union just minding our own business and “doing our business.” If we continue walking along the busy, mean streets of downtown Englewood, we need to be on a leash.
Apparently, it is not so much to be in compliance with the ordinance (which [...]

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Colors of the Union

February 24, 2007

I watched the State of the Union last night.. mostly what I heard was that voice that Charlie Brown hears whenever the teacher talks, so I drifted off quite a bit and started looking at other things.. Here is what I noticed:
Dick Chaney was wearing a purple tie… but not a REAL purple tie; [...]

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Business advice from a 20-something

June 14, 2006

I was sitting outside the Uptown Cafe in Oxford, Ohio this morning, drinking coffee, watching the sights… and this 20-something unlocked his bike from the meter and asked me if I was with Vanguard (my free computer bag had the Vanguard logo stitched on the front). I told him no, but we entered into a [...]

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Donuts and Business

October 5, 2005

I’m beginning to worry a bit.. some of my best business theories are based on donuts…
Give em a showWhen Jim and I were at the 2002 USYSA conference, we stayed at the Luxor… the Luxor is connected to Excaliber by way of a tunnel.. in that tunnel, we came upon a group of people [...]

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