Architel Labs was launched in 2005 to commercialize technology created and/or acquired by Architel. Over the past decade Architel has acquired several companies including MightyView (from Lockheed Martin), AtlasTG (a publicly traded company, BLive (a remote desktop company), ART (a regional managed service provider). From these acquisitions Architel has secured valuable intellectual property and software related to network and [...]

Scott Ryan and I co-founded Architel in 2001. Today it is one of the largest managed service providers in North Texas. Serving more than 10,000 users the company is located in the Dallas INFOMART. We started the company because we believed the traditional “break-fix” approach to IT support was broken. By charging by the hour, IT [...]

If you have ever been in a hang glider you know about ‘Negative Target Acquisition’. The concept is pretty simple, if you focus on the obstacles you are more likely to hit them. Hang gliding instructors will tell you, “Don’t focus on the power lines or the trees, instead focus on the path.” This weekend [...]

Did I ever mention the time that I thought it might be a good idea to produce a television show? It was quite the adventure, but it wasn’t a money making venture. I wrote a whole blog about it called High Def: Confessions of a Reality Show Newbie. I get one or two emails each [...]

The other day I ran across yet ANOTHER coworking space in Dallas called Workhaus Co-Working Lodge. The One Fast Buffalo guys put the facility together (looks like they may be trying to launch it as a multi-location concept). I actually met the CEO Ben Jenkins working on a project years ago (I don’t think he [...]

Ryan Roberts has a post titled ‘Series A Startup CEO Salary‘ that I thought was interesting. Ryan quotes Peter Theil who suggests, “The lower the CEO salary, the more likely it is to succeed.” Many entrepreneurs I talk to (even some I am in business with) look to raise money because they need a salary. [...]

More than two years ago we decided to start hosting a regular startup-focused happy hour for the North Texas area. More 2,500 local entrepreneurs have joined us for some beer and fellowship. The newspaper wrote about the event and lots of new companies have been formed from the relationships created at the event – for [...]

Brad’s brother John Feld and Gabriella Draney asked if we would be willing (along with Ryan Roberts) to sponsor ‘Beers with Brad’ this Friday – we happily agreed. We will meet Friday night between 6PM and 8PM at Lotus on 2900 McKinney Ave. You are all invited and as is our custom, the bar will [...]

If you have kids and are like me you take lots of photos of them (my flickr account has more than 14,000 photos – most of them of Ethan and Erin). The dirty little secret is that the photos you see are the best ones. Today we snap LOTS of photos since there is not [...]