Podcasting from New Zealand
Plans are being laid for our upcoming trip: this includes recording podcasts and interviews, daily blogging on the Newzealand.com website, and picking and choosing which doodads and gizmos to bring on the trip. So far one little item, a flashlight called a Flaresafe, with a built-in smoke detector, has made […]
Eric and Bill Await in LA
Today was a fantastic day in the cafe, waves of people came in to admire the new space. I am working this afternoon but I still had time to make plans for our New Zealand adventure that begins on Friday. Cindy and I fly to LA and will meet up […]
Equity Firm Buyout Signals Climate Change Shift
Today’s NY Times and Business Wire included an inspiring story about the largest leveraged buyout ever–and one that will benefit the environment, since it involves one of the biggest utility companies in the US. TXU corporation has agreed to be purchased by a team of private equity firms and abandon […]
They Used To Grind the Coffee in Starbucks
Howard Schultz wrote a long memo last week that was described in a Wall Street Journal article about customer disenchantment with Starbucks. Schultz is the company’s chairman, and he warned fellow executives that all of the efficiencies brought on by their rapid growth has diluted the experience, and that they […]
Talk about Bad Karma!
The AP included a story today about a salesman has a pattern: he tells his bosses that his son has cancer or has died, and then goofs off for months. He’s done it three times, and this last episode landed him in court, he has to repay $50K. “Lancope Inc. […]
Looking Out from the Cafe
The Daily Hampshire Gazette interviewed me about the newly renovated cafe. But they didn’t send a photog and reporter Cris Carl told me she was only writing a short little piece, and didn’t shoot any photos. So here is what would be in the paper if they included a photo.
Stokin’ the Star Makin Machinery at the Cafe
Jacylyn Stevenson is one of our favorite writers who is writing a feature about blogging for Business West Magazine. I was happy to speak with her again, she wrote a detailed story about the GoNOMAD travel website when we moved into our first office in town in 2004. I told […]