tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-115829072011-04-22T00:53:58.833ZMusings on Creating Thriving Ventures and Living in the Great American Lower LeftGrizzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01894635556481763059noreply@blogger.comBlogger331100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11582907.post-1133728872244160332008-12-04T20:38:00.000Z2007-06-03T22:42:59.996Z

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I've spent the last year being rather busy and have ignored my contribution to the gajillion bytes of data and info that is the Internet. What with all of the new activity within PMV and the establishment of the seed fund, I think I'll use this space more and more. . Go git yer own copy! Powered by Qumana

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So long as we actually try a wide variety of remedies...but just blaming it on the sun sounds a bit too medieval Catholic to me. Click HERE to read the article.

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There exists never a more apt example of the old saying "you get what you pay for" than when it comes to compensating your Board of Directors. Companies, especially startups, need to look outside their own organizations for a fresh and different perspective on just about every aspect of running the firm. The most reliable manner to accomplish this is to be able to turn to a small group of

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Once again, the Washington Post has published the winning submissions to itsyearly neologism contest, in which readers are asked to supply alternate meanings for common words. The winners are:1. Coffee (n.), the person upon whom one coughs.2. Flabbergasted (adj.), appalled over how much weight you have gained.3. Abdicate (v.), to give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.4. Esplanade (v.),

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It turns out the U.S. government was concerned about a terror strike on U.S. soil years before 9-11. George the Pretender has done an amazing job of avoiding most of the recommendations of this five year effort. If you’d like to see the thinking behind what could happen in American, as well as the genesis of efforts such as the Department of Homeland Security, the Hart Rudman report can be found

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I recorded the last 12 episodes of The West Wing, and finally got around to watching them over the last week.It’s stupid and sentimental, but that show was always there for me over the last seven years, and I learned a lot.I remember spending late nights up watching the program on DVD when I was in London, escaping what I thought was a monumental failure. It turned out what I thought was my

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Was it the tequila in Mexico?; or the personal drama?; or maybe the day to day grind?I seem to have lost an entire month.Anyone know what happened?

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If you find someone you love, you just make it work.Job, school, family, friends, money, politics, religion, the price of tea in Missoula—none of that matters.If you are fortunate to ever find someone you truly love, and they love you, everything else is just details.

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What is the difference between Christians getting upset over the Da Vinci Code, and Muslims getting upset over some cartoons?

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1. Be very careful when Cody suggests we have Margaritas for breakfast.2. Mexico is about doing enough to just barely get by.3. Paul burns easily.4. The water taxi is always late.5. Pay twice as much and you can use no protection.6. Feed a dog and you have a friend for life.7. A little sunscreen is better than none at all.8. Tag team (good cop/bad cop) market negotiation works.9. The only time

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W. Does Something Good? Too bad no one noticed.All of the negative polls and press on George the Pretender actually obscured some very positive new policy by the administration.The American Competitiveness Initiative, mentioned by W. during the SOTU address in January 06 was finalized in Feb 06. Click HERE to get your own copy of the report.Counter arguments include that this is still unfunded,

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The gall of some people!MSFT, of all firms, should know imitation is the most sincere form of flateryMicrosoft accuses Lucent of violating patents

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The much maligned but always piercing words of Iraq’s former Minister of Information have found a new home. Given the drivel coming form the executive branch these days (with the exception of the State Department), it must be that Baghdad Bob is in charge.Forget why we invaded Iraq, apparently now the reason we’re doing so badly is…you guessed it, the Press. It seems the press only reports the

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Discovery Science has many interesting shows, but only one gets recorded each week at Casa de Entrepreneur.How It's Made shows how items as varied as aluminum foil, contact lenses, and food products are manufactured. Although almost like the film strips we were showed in grade school science, the depth is considerably more, and the detail fascinating.Check it out each Wednesday evening at 8 and 8

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Check out Sales Voodoo...great product, cool people, excelent customers. www.salesvoodoo.com

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I've had three meetings with folks involved in startups in the last 24 hours. In two cases, neither team could tell me what the heck they did nor why anyone should care. All I wanted was a series of short, concise statements.I’ve been there…but I was 25 and had no idea what I was doing. These two teams had supposed “experienced management” that had no idea how to articulate the value of their

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Pizza Hut China Salad Architecture

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Effectiveness of Aluminum Foil Hats

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Impossible to believe, but El Presidente stated today that he would veto any bill prohibiting foreign ownership of firms entrusted to guard U.S. ports.This just may be the incident necessary to get Congressional Republicans off their collective butts to do what’s right. G.W. has never vetoed a single bill, but now, for what can only be his own selfish interests, he is standing on “principle” to

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Scandal(Noun) an action or event regarded as morally or legally wrong and causing general public outrage(Synonyms) wrongdoing , ignominy , disgraceIllegal wiretaps on U.S. CitizensDubai running ops at 8 major U.S. portsAbu Grab TortureWeapons of Mass DestructionIraq will pay for the war with oil salesPlamegateHurricane KatrinaHalliburton No Bid Contracts in Iraq reconstructionTom Delay (too

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In New Mexico, you must have a physical postal address in order to get a voter registration card. Since nearly ONE-THIRD of the people living in the state do not have a physical postal address, the electorate could be unbalanced and swayed one direction or another. State House Democrats will propose a method to fix the problem by allowing the use of map coordinates as physical addresses for not

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UC Awarded LANL Contract

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NEWS MEDIA CONTACT: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASERebecca Neale, 202/586-4940 Tuesday, December 20, 2005Media AdvisorySecretary Bodman to Announce Los Alamos Contract DecisionWASHINGTON, DC – Tomorrow, Wednesday, December 21, Secretary of Energy Samuel W. Bodman will announce the selection of the new management and operating contractor for the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL).

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Too bad he's leaving the Lab.Researchers find 10 Gigabit Ethernet as speedy as customized interconnects

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From Forky:Don't throw rocks at BearsSee: Summer of 1986 at Philmont

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From Cody:Don't give explosives to visitors.Read about the Accident at LANL

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I've been thinking a lot abut the holiday season today. Christmas has always been a time, the only real time, my family spends together. We have never been apart on Christmas until this year. My friends can’t imagine spending 41 holiday seasons together with their entire family—something always seems to come up…but not us. We’re together. Period. End of story. No matter what.While we’ll all be

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Mobile Telephone: If a call is dropped the person who initiated the call has the responsibilty to re-establish the commnication link.

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New Mexico has one of the largest income gaps in the nation. Los Alamos county was recently recognized as having the highest median income in the U.S. (see Los Alamos County Wealthiest in Nation: http://www.freenewmexican.com/news/35676.html). What to do about this disparity is not a new topic, but is fraught with a cultural and economic divide wider than the Rio Grande. Traditionalists are under

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30 Nov & 1 Dec New York CityFortune magazine’s annual conference has focused the last couple of years on the topic of innovation. The first Fortune conference I attended was in NYC back in 2001, just a couple of weeks after the 911 attacks on New York and DC. That conference was all about the busted tech bubble, and featured Gary Hamel, who at the time was heralding Enron as a prototype for a

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I’m attending the MIT Venture Capital Forum this week-end in Cambridge, MA. Unlike other VC fests, this one is organized by the grad students at the MIT Sloan School of Management (http://mitsloan.mit.edu/). It’s not an opportunity for companies to pitch potential investors, but rather a chance for the regional venture capitalists to get together and chat about the state of their industry. Two

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I don’t so much fear flying as fear crashing. What I hate is being crammed into an aluminum tube and hurled across the country at 500 miles per hour. My flight today had a female pilot, which I much prefer. I don’t give in to stereotypes, but am pretty sure that unlike their male counterparts, female pilots are: 1. Much more nurturing, so one assumes less likely to blow off some critical task on

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