The ugliest furniture I have ever seen
These three odd items were for sale on a street corner in Pittsburgh: So later in the day I snapped these other shots of contemporary mass-produced…
Nantucket Conference…worth a thought
This is the 10th year for the Nantucket Conference. It’s the New England go-to conference for investors, entrepreneurs, and tech execs. Last year was my first…
Help me with my teenage moral dilemma
I was with a group of Wisconsin and Michigan-based business leaders earlier this month. Somehow the familiar accents of home set my mind wandering to the…
A teenager’s summary of start-up company financing
My thirteen-year-old recently asked me, Mom what is the point of raising these “grants” [his word for an investment funding round] for your company? All you…
Places where things get made; Pittsburgh
I like being in places where things get made. I grew up next to a humming Detroit Diesel Allison factory and freight train line. Those noises…
What happens when you take the boy out of Boston
My oldest boy has lived in three places: Boston, Dublin, and now Pittsburgh, as a student at Carnegie Mellon. He loves change and is generally really…
Flipping over Flip acquisition
Cisco bought Pure Digital Technologies, the makers of the Flip video camera yesterday. We featured the Flip story on Grommet a few weeks back, so I…
Here is the best thing about Ireland
I had an unusually sociable weekend. It surprised me how the three consecutive late nights, and all the new, interesting people I met–and way too much…
I need to get home to Detroit (or out of the office) more
This is yesterday’s video. Jen Lockwood and Barbara Hall Gordon are in it. I got this email from my brother Dennis: OK OK first of all…
With friends like Dan….
I feel so lucky to have friends like Dan Weinreb. He’s a rocket scientist (figuratively), who wrote the book on the programming language LISP (literally), and…
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