What next? How do you start the fund raising process? Fred Wilson has an interesting post in which he states, “the best way to raise money is to ask for advice and the best way to get advice is to ask for money.” The advice is sound and the post is enlightening. His thought process [...]

Each time I see this sign (in Dallas, TX) I chuckle.  For some reason TXDOT has a message that reminds motorists that there is an arson/burn ban in effect.  If you were considering an arson, you will have to wait until we get more rainfall.  It is simply to dry to burn down your business.  [...]

Recently our maid took a full-time job and we no longer have anyone to clean our home. If you know of someone please pass my number (214.550.2003) or email address along. Here is the ad I posted on Craigslist: Family of three seeks a domestic worker to clean our three bedroom house one or two [...]

Backed by Texas oil legend, Boone Pickens, Dallas based Ad Giants is lead by Dan Farmer (advertising industry vet who worked on accounts such as Coca-Cola, AMEX, Budweiser, Exxon, IBM, KFC and Motorola). Ad Giants provides process-management system for marketers and advertisers. Dan’s team has applied traditional asset management to help creative agencies, corporations and [...]

This just in, Adam McGill is launching a new ‘long-tail’ (i.e. niche) magazine called Dallas CEO.  The picture to the left was captured by Brian at Green Papaya.  Hopefully I will get a subscription…  

I never really ‘got’ satellite radio. Why would I pay $10 per month for something I get for free? I understood why truck drivers might appreciate the service and folks living in rural areas like my wife’s family from Nacogdoches (you can never find a radio station there). But for guys like me living in [...]

According to VentureOne, venture capitalists invested more money in U.S. companies than any time since 2001.  Venture-backed companies raised more than $22 billion dollars in 2005.  Why? Venture capital firms are shifting their focus to smaller consumer and business-services sector companies, benefiting from open source software and inexpensive bandwidth and servers.  The primary growth of [...]

Brian told me that he was going to capture the entire year with his camera and post to Flickr.  I too have been using Flickr quite a bit, but I am dismayed.  I have this cool Nikon D70s with lots of cool lenses, however, my pictures are flat and uninteresting.  So many of the people [...]

I was reviewing stats on this blog today and realized that quite a few actually come from a website called Forty Faces.  Basically people decide which blog to read based on what you look like.  I get a couple of clicks per day from the site.  Crazy…      

I blogged about the making of the MotorSport Ranch pilot (more than a hundred posts) and now that we have finished filming 13 episodes for VOOM (I posted three or four times about the series) I blogged the pictures from the final day of filming.  Check out the MotorSport Ranch blog here and the website [...]