another new blog
So, I've been on the net for a long time but never written a blog before.
I had lunch with a friend today. He's looking at a layoff soon. He asked me about what it takes to start a high tech company, and I suggested he read "High Stakes, No Prisoners : A Winner's Tale of Greed and Glory in the Internet Wars" by Charles H. Ferguson for an account of what not to do. Some of the people depicted (poorly) in that book are decent people (Ferguson's opinion notwithstanding). It is possible to do OK starting a VC-funded business.
But I'm not interested in doing all that high-tech startup stuff again. It's fun to spend investor money, but you have to remember it's a juice loan.
Digital, Apollo, PictureTel, Vivo Software, a consulting gig at Individual, Rational, Adero, Dotclick, SavaJe, enough! I like IVCCO.COM ... a good business, decent software, profitable (if slightly some years) from the day the doors opened, customers who care enough to re-order when the products are good and complain when they're bad.
I had lunch with a friend today. He's looking at a layoff soon. He asked me about what it takes to start a high tech company, and I suggested he read "High Stakes, No Prisoners : A Winner's Tale of Greed and Glory in the Internet Wars" by Charles H. Ferguson for an account of what not to do. Some of the people depicted (poorly) in that book are decent people (Ferguson's opinion notwithstanding). It is possible to do OK starting a VC-funded business.
But I'm not interested in doing all that high-tech startup stuff again. It's fun to spend investor money, but you have to remember it's a juice loan.
Digital, Apollo, PictureTel, Vivo Software, a consulting gig at Individual, Rational, Adero, Dotclick, SavaJe, enough! I like IVCCO.COM ... a good business, decent software, profitable (if slightly some years) from the day the doors opened, customers who care enough to re-order when the products are good and complain when they're bad.
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