When you are a kid, there are a lot of influences on you and your general outlook on life. Parents are obvious, music is pretty common, teachers are important. For me, there was one that was critical, and seems pretty unusual: the movie ‘Real Genius’ It happened to be on cable last night, and I [...]
One of the real advantages of working in a start up is the relatively limited number of meetings. I’m no fan of the meeting. It usually seems like there’s 10 minutes of useful information for every hour in a meeting. I do understand that they have some merit at times, but too often they get [...]
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One of the more interesting things about “living” online is the sheer number of places that we need to maintain our identity. From the social networking perspective, I have three: facebook, linkedin and twitter. All have their own followers/friends and all have different purposes in my mind. I try to keep facebook personal, linkedin professional, [...]
Times with kids can be trying for most people, but when you work like my wife and myself, it can get even worse. I get about two hours every evening to spend with them, and often I get less. That time’s filled up with dinner, bathing, reading books and lots of other stuff. I try [...]
One of the rules that I’ve tried to follow is to limit working when I’m home and the kids are awake. I’ll bust out the laptop if need be, but it’s really something I try to avoid. The ultimate time for me is dinner. We don’t allow the TV to be on, or for that [...]
In my typical crazy mode, I managed to have some fun this weekend. Audi was kind enough to send me an invitation to test out their new car as part of the audi driving experience on Texas Motor Speedway, and I was happy to oblige. My time was for 3pm on Sunday, and I just [...]
Today the password came off of our dating site (www.free-singles.com), allowing me to start test marketing the site. The url isn’t what we hope to be on long term, so we’re keeping our spend very low for right now. It’s still a chance to test out what works for our site.
Let me start by telling [...]
As I recently noted, one of my roles is working for a startup in Dallas focused on internet dating. The site is ready to go live in the next couple of days, and there are just tons of things to clear up before we launch. Even though my responsibility is for marketing the [...]