Ken Olsen, the co-founder and Ceo of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), is dead at 84. In so many ways, Ken represented the best of US entrepreneurship. He took on the “nobody gets fired for buying IBM” head on and with a better mousetrap created a valuable business with energetic, talented employees and an extremely loyal…
Author: Dwayne Nesmith
Kickstarter PadPivot Looking Like a Success
Another good start for a product via KickStarter…
Mark Kvamme to Help Knock the Rust off Ohio
It was 1996 and the head of CKS Group was impressed enough with a young, brash guy from Los Angeles to give him a bit of Angel Funding. Eric Greenberg took that money, grabbed a few folks to get going, and put together a plan that attracted capital from Bill Davidow, Vinod Khosla, and Venetia…
Washington’s Crossing
Ok, I have a habit of grabbing an interesting book and then taking a few months, or in some cases a few years, to get to them. That is the case with David Hackett Fischer‘s Washington’s Crossing. I’m certainly glad I finally decided to pick it back up. [openbook booknumber=”0195170342″] I don’t think I’m giving…
Best of 2010
It’s that time of year, when everyone was to put out their best of 2010 list. Here is my Best List of the Best of 2010 List. Let’s start with Esquires 102 things to be proud of in 2010. Best of 2010: Things that made us proud Esquire PMA’s Best Songs of 2010 Pretty…
Corporations Attract Ire of Wikileaks Fans. How have they responded?
By now you know the story of the Distributed Denial of Service Attacks (DDoS) on many of the corporations which refused to provide services to Wikileaks after that organization. Posted thousands of cable messages from the United States Department of State. These included Amazon.com, Visa, Mastercard, PayPal, PostFinance and EveryDNS. Calling the attack Operation Payback,…