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Welcome to Not a B-School

February 22, 2008

Conventional B-School curricula are broken and irrelevant for the most part.
We didn’t make this up. It has been pointed out by some of the insiders of the B-School world—Henry Mintzberg, Warren Bennis, James O’Toole. For independents, entrepreneurs and small shops of designers and developers, subjects like Human Resource Management, Supply Chain Management, [...]

Your Name Here, LLC

February 14, 2008

Note: Hi, I’m Tony. I’m championing coworking in NYC and met The Butcher & Bandit when they were in town last week. I hope to add my perspective and experiences to the mix here and, with any luck, contribute something that’s insightful and enjoyable. Feel free to contact me!
In his Coworking as a Catalyst post, [...]

Run Bandit, Run

February 14, 2008

There were four of us. We lived in the Bay Area and were doing a startup. We had a cube in an incubator in Palo Alto. One guy, the President, had the cube. The rest of us worked from home. We didn’t even have a garage.
The incubator held “launch parties” [...]

Nodes, Nerds and Networks

February 1, 2008

In an article at Wired.com, ‘Cafe 2.0: After the Gold Rush,’ Ryan Singel talks about the extent to which coffee shops, and in particular San Fran’s Ritual Coffee Roasters, are fast becoming the new Garages for start-ups and biz ventures. At Ritual Coffee Roasters, alone, teams from Flickr, Rollyo, Bar Camp, Placecite, HotOrNot, Netflix and [...]

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