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Big Empty Glass Buildings
May 4, 2008
Commercial real estate owners, pay attention to this telecommuting/coworking trend.
A building is not a very liquid asset. There it is; it isn’t going anywhere. It’s only valuable if someone wants it.
Right now, most Americans have two spaces to spend their time in: their home and their office. When they’re in one place, the other place [...]
Build or Sell
April 27, 2008
Reading some Google history.
Meanwhile Sergey set up a business office, and the two began calling on potential partners who might want to license a search technology better than any then available. Despite the dotcom fever of the day, they had little interest in building a company of their own around the technology they had developed. [...]
Austin Inc.
April 26, 2008
(photo from Nick Mehl Architecture)
Reflections on Jellying in Austin yesterday… My instinct is to echo what Bandit said yesterday in his Biz Hacker piece, where he suggests that, like Mary, There’s Something About Austin (too).
There has been, and continues to be, a distinct style or signature to the way businesses develop in Austin. The culture [...]
Where Does the Rubber Hit the Road?
April 25, 2008
I spent yesterday at The Creative Space in Bryan, Texas. Don’t know much about Bryan, but The Creative Space rocks!
Software development firm Downtwon Cartel was cranking out work for a Houston based client, and design/media oriented Always Creative was jamming to euro-club grooves in the office one over as I talked with Cody Marx Bailey [...]
Biz Hacker
April 25, 2008
I hate the trendy “blah blah blah hacker.com” sites (lifehacker.com, this means you, punk). They co-opted the term “hacker” and stripped it of its edge… It’s like picking up a shot glass expecting whiskey and swallowing sweet-tea instead.
Screw the “skilled programmer” neo-definition. A hacker was and is a skilled technician who gains [...]
Selling Products or Services?
April 24, 2008
Is there an innate preference in coworking (or by coworkers) for one type of company over the other?
- Bandit
Thinking like the Herd: Sometimes Diversity isn’t Beneficial
April 23, 2008
What does this picture tell you?
It tells me that space and opportunity for denatured, corn-syrup laden, puréed apple-based products is at its limit.
We have an entire shelf section filled with varieties of applesauce. We have original, we have green apple, we have unsweetened, we have organic, we have colored (everything except white and [...]
Tweeting Your Strategy—Update
April 21, 2008
Last week, I lobbed a bit of a challenge to our corporate readers (all 3 of them) to see if they could articulate their corporate strategy in a tweet. This thought-stream was prompted by a recent Harvard Business Review article which suggests that many senior managers can’t succinctly state (in 35 words or less) [...]
Simple is the New Black
April 18, 2008
Tomorrow, a job in IT might be just about the worst job you could have.
Sure, IT has always been the least popular child in the family–seemingly important but not always in tune with the rest of band–but I’m thinking specifically about the impending, wholesale IT sell-off that’s going to happen once companies realize that running [...]
Focus on Sustainability
April 4, 2008
When we started working on the Not a B-School Syllabus, we asked ourselves, “What crucial business trends are business schools ignoring?” There are many, but one particular trend stuck out in my mind–sustainability. When Butcher posted his definition of Greenspan yesterday, the importance of sustainability as a first-class area of study in business [...]