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Monthly Archives: January 2009
Just Fucking Do It!
Nike facing a losing battle to Reebok in the 1980′s hired advertising agency Wieden and Kennedy. Dan Wieden reportedly said “You Nike guys, you just do it” during a meeting. The rest is history. The slogan is pretty incredible because [...]
Posted in Gangplank, Startups
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Local Government Would Rather Go To Superbowl Than Invest Locally
This morning I woke up and read the paper. I am not sure why I do this, as it tends to either piss me off or depress me. I came across “Economic council to woo firms at big game“. My [...]
Posted in Community, Personal
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Path to Execution
At Gangplank we talk a lot about executing ideas. We have a fundamental belief that “doing” is a powerful value. Early on we relied heavily on fact that everyone has good ideas, but most people don’t actually implement them. We [...]
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Top Arizona Startups?
Recently when assembling a list of speakers for brown bag sessions for Gangplank Academy, I asked people to name successful companies that were started in Arizona and are still going strong.
Deru
Mighty Interactive
Limelight
Go Daddy
Lumension Security
Microchip
Intertel
iCrossing
Saleslogix/ACT
Lifelock
First Solar
Calence
Stirling Energy
JDA Software
Insight
This was the immediate [...]
Christmas in January
Seems I got a late Christmas present. I have been on the Mephisto blogging platform for some time. Hating nearly every minute of it. I have had on my todo list for nearly 8 months to move to WordPress. I [...]
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Ignite Phoenix Presentations, Help Me Decide!
Okay so the call for Ignite Phoenix 3 presentations went out last week. I have been asked by Jeff Moriarty, Alan Dayley and Roger to submit something during the last two Ignite’s. I think they probably think I [...]
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MofoCamp : Collaborative Learning via BarCamp Fork
Every year at our Rails Consulting shop Integrum we take from Christmas to New Years off to rejuvenate and recharge. It just so happened that this year Jan 2nd landed on a Friday making for a very awkward return [...]
