Southwest is my airline of choice in the United States because it rewards those who game the system. Every seat is first class, so they’ll tell you, but really there is only one per plane located next to the over-wing exits. The row ahead has no seat ahead of you. If you hit Companion Pass, […]
Southwest Airlines- A Rapid Rewards Junkie Confesses Read More »
Congratulations! You’ve been promoted to manage your very first project. You’ve demonstrated that you’re a good worker bee— you can make campaigns, prepare reports, and do whatever else you’ve been assigned. But managing a project is a completely different matter. Now, instead of dutifully doing what you’re told, you have to figure out what the
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Have you ever been to one of those gas stations along the highway– the one that can charge $7 a gallon because the nearest gas is 40 miles away? They can charge whatever they want. Until recently, there was no other place in Boulder for stringing tennis racquets. 22-year-old CU grad, Matt Prater, has a
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It’s about 5 am and I’m on my way to the airport again. If you’re an entrepreneur like me, you know it’s a difficult and lonely road that usually ends in failure. If you are not a start-up or business owner, you can safely ignore the rest of this article. Those who aren’t entrepreneurs might
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One of our new clients was held hostage by a programmer that built a custom CMS when WordPress would have done just fine. This programmer also did his own hosting, which failed quite often, allowing him to bill the client for time to fix things. The client was complaining about being held hostage and here
Yesterday, I had the honor of being part of the Privacy Roundtable put on by the Federal Trade Commission, held at the University of California at Berkeley. The other 6 panelists were Chris Conley from the ACLU, Tim Sparapani of Facebook, Nicole Wong of Google, Erika Rottenberg of LinkedIn, Lillie Conley of the Electronic Privacy
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If you’re a stay-at-home parent, your job options are typically quite limited. There is a range of multi-level marketing opportunities, get-rich-quick schemes, insourced call centers, and general selling of questionable products. But a few major trends have converged: In the last year, we’ve seen stay-at-home moms become addicted online gamers, playing daily for hours a
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I get pitched a ton of ideas and most of them are pretty good. No doubt, it’s a GREAT idea! Odds are that it might not be truly unique, as is typical in web entrepreneurship. However, the winner in the space is the first to properly execute. No experience founding a company before, don’t have
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I’m not talking about acai, crush, or consumer scams. This post is about how to avoid the most common form of business failure. The moral of the story- “In God we trust… All others pay cash.” A designer I know is a nice fellow. Great design skills, and great intentions. Yet we paid him $6,000
The most common way to fail Read More »
Keith Wilcox is a stay-at-home dad blogging about his two kids and family life– providing a distinctly male perspective and quite outspoken. Some examples: four exercises that will make you a better parent, busting your child out of a locked car, why talking to your kid in the baby talk just infantilizes them, what to
Forget the mommyblogger movement– here come the daddybloggers! Read More »