Thoughts
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A couple of weeks ago there was a blog post at TechCrunch (www.techcrunch.com) regarding web sites experiencing downtime as well as infrastructure companies experiencing failures in their operations. Obviously, the first take was on the revenue loss that each one of those companies experienced. In the case of the infrastructure company the concern and criticism
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Recently I have gone bonkers with photography. What I mean by recently is the last couple of weeks. I have been bonkers about photography for a very long time. The last two week however, have been extra bonkers. I have a Nikon D80 that I bought about a year ago. This year I gave myself
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What makes a startup successful? Getting to profitability and keeping it there. At least that is my opinion. But why is it so important to get to profitability? It gives you choices. Basically, you can decide what to do and how to do it without having to worry about survivability. And if you have a
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Just kidding!!
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Startups are interesting “beasts”. I should know, I have a few under my belt. I worked on my own startups, for which I had a hard time funding thus they never really went anywhere, and since I was the only source of investment, not only did they not go anywhere, but I was taken along
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I am a lucky man. There are many reasons I am a lucky man: my wife, my kids and my friends. I do not have (or want) many friends, but the ones I have are the best. One of them I have known for 30 years (he will argue that it is 29 years, but
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Recently there was a post in TechCrunch regarding Facebook’s hype. One comment to the post was that Facebook was already passe and “the new hype was being already developed by three guys in somebody’s garage”. I recently wrote an post regarding Innovation In Technology and the process of creating new technologies; from the need to
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A few months ago I started to blog. This is my second go at it and it is going far better. The first time around the focus was on personal thoughts and, in a way, documenting some of the things that were going on in my life, good and bad. I have to admit that
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Over the years I have either participated and/or was the main person in architecting large scalable web based solutions. In many cases I also built them, but in the last few years, I have directed the implementation and execution. There has always been a common thread to all of these build-outs: ”If you are talking
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How does innovation happen? Not just in technology, but in general. I think that the question can be answered easily with the next three statements: Necessity is the mother of all inventions. We create it because there is a need. Build a better mouse trap. Paraphrasing Einstein: “I stand on the shoulders of giants” This
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