Business Owner’s Blog

You’ve got to visit Zillow.com if you have any interest in residential real estate. If you don’t care about real estate, jump down and read the end of this post.Launched by the guy who founded expedia, zillow it gives you price estimates and other details of any home in the country.
I’ve checked out properties I […]

The Essential Drucker : The Best of Sixty Years of Peter Drucker’s Essential Writings on Management (Paperback) by Peter F. Drucker
Almost everything that needs to be said about business management was said by Peter Drucker before anyone else. He coined the term “knowledge worker” before the Internet or even the PC was developed. […]

On a Sunday while the last of 24 inches of snow was still falling on the northeast, I got in an SUV and drove to Best Buy. Yes it was open. And I bought a router so I could get more than one computer in my house on the internet. It was on sale for […]

Hiring is one of the top 3 problems I see in companies. Sales and Data points are the others. This article from JoelonSoftware shows how they do it. For interns, no less.
Key take-aways would be:

It’s a process you have to learn and devote time to, but it’s worth it.
The clearer you are on what you […]

One of the great things about being an entrepreneur is that you can indulge your personal peccadilloes and (if you don’t take them too far) justify them for business reasons. If they involve flying first class or an upgraded car, you can often write them off - thereby sharing the expense with all the other […]

This is not really my first post. I’ve dabbled with blogging before and want to include some of those posts to get this blog off on solid footing. I have changed the dates of those posts (they mostly happened before Feb 2006) but didn’t want to have a bunch of thinly populated archives. After Feb […]