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Tweet [This post was written on December 16 and I never hit publish. I removed some of the mushy stuff. And as I have said many times "bad news fast" so let me say first that I regret the chaos of Katie's last day. I'll make it up to you Katie.] Some people are just [...]
Tweet “I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.” – Douglas Adams
Tweet Life – not quite a fight. Not quite a dance. Somewhere in the middle.
Tweet “reluctantly crouched at the starting line” and then some.
Tweet “Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at something worth doing.” - Teddy Roosevelt “Our nation’s work force is the most productive in the world because, as a societal norm, hard-work is deemed honorable and excellence considered admirable. This holiday is about those [...]
Tweet This is a cross post. Please comment on the original post on the official Schipul Web Design Company Blog here. September 1, 2011 is the 14th anniversary of starting the company. 14 years. Considering I was unable to hold a single job for more than 2 years before this (if you exclude teaching on [...]
Tweet but I feel lucky….
Tweet From the APRIL HBJ article on the Texas Technology Venture Fund 2011: “(the) newly created Houston Technology Future Fund plans to raise $100 million in venture capital The fund would provide equity to technology companies within a 30-county area in the aerospace, energy, information technology, life sciences and nanotechnology sectors. John White, a partner [...]
Tweet “The crux of the matter is that in the past, networks have been viewed as objects of pure structure whose properties are fixed in time. Neither of these assumptions could be further from the truth. First, real networks represent populations of individual components that are actually doing something – generating power, sending data, or [...]
Tweet “IV. At the same time, living systems adapt themselves to changes in their environment they learn, grow, develop, evolve. When the mouse population in a region suddenly declines because of an epidemic, the predators who adapt to a new prey survive; those who remain determined “mouse-avores” starve. Life events affect us and change us, [...]
Tweet From: Leadership at the Expansion Stage: Dos and Dont’s The key defining attribute of expansion stage organizations is that they are expanding rapidly to capture a market opportunity and capitalize on their product or distribution advantage. It then behooves the leader to be even more aware of the rapidly changing circumstances, especially when it [...]
Tweet This is a cross post. Please comment on “Men, ask yourself, are you still a sexist pig?” on Chron.com. Yup, I’m calling the men out on subtle sexism. A lot of men, probably me too when I was younger, have a problem with their women making more than them. Rachel, my wife, made more [...]
Tweet NOTE: This is a cross post. Please comment on the main post on the Houston Chronicle on Best Places to Work by Ed Schipul. Every year Houston has a Best Places to Work contest. I offer my congratulations to the winners. But we don’t enter them. And every year the new employees will suggest we [...]
Tweet I received two very interesting questions from a young man I met several years ago, passing through Houston on the way to some romantic big city (go ahead, get the whole NYC/LA/SanFran/Boulder/places-you-can’t-eat-but-feel-sexy/thing out of your system.) He asked for lunch and had two questions for me: 1) How do you personally influence people to [...]
Tweet “we found this very strong correlation between the number of hours spent at work by a CEO and the productivity of the firm” (defined as revenue per employee) “and also the profitability of the firm.” Every one percentage point rise in hours worked meant firm productivity rose by 2.14 percentage points. - How Many [...]
Tweet RAMSAY GILLMAN (from Chron.com) Ramsay Gillman, born in Houston, Texas on the 1st of February 1944, the son of Frank and Lula Gillman, died on Friday, the 3rd of June in his home in Houston. He was preceded in death by his father, mother, and brother, Barton Gillman. He is survived by his beloved [...]
Tweet Mike Risinger from Over Fifty and Out of Work on Vimeo. (via DustinPyeatt)
Tweet I recently did a blog post on business taxes going up in Texas. And a follow up post on entrepreneurship and suicide. And as it so happens one of the five people who read this blog brought it up after a tennis match the other day. The conversation went something like this: CitizenX: So I read [...]
Tweet “Hey wait. You’re the captain of the ship. We can talk about what direction we’re going. But we’re going in a direction. And if there’s a debate about what direction we’re going, it’s my ship, I’m gonna pick at the end of the day. I’m gonna take everyone’s input. But there’s gonna come a [...]
Tweet Because entreneurship is so misunderstood and suicide is such a sensitive subject I felt the need for a few disclaimers when I did this blog post on Governor Rick Perry’s business tax increases in Texas. I was very careful with my wording to be as respectful as possible, yet be honest about the visceral [...]
Tweet Listing: Detail oriented slightly ADD CEO of high growth tech company seeking ambitious, ethical, personal-assistant/apprentice. 5 year minimum commitment. High stress. Long hours including weekend and evenings as needed. Travel required. (Experience ordering replacement rc heli parts from Hong Kong helpful.)
Tweet It’s those voices I hear in my head. The ones that say stuff like “Tara never did pick the easy road’ The truth is it’s not about an easy road or a hard road at all. My goals in life are very different than to be comfortable. They are to ask questions, and to [...]
Tweet New post on Chron.com on What Are People Paid For? This is a cross-post so please comment on the Chron site if interested. Ed Schipul Two questions I like to ask in the interview process are below. (Oh don’t worry, most job applicants don’t take the time to google things like “schipul interview questions” [...]
Tweet Core values from a presentation at sxsw 2009 by zappos.