That is our focus. I hope you all agree it is the right one.
Check out this article. It sums up our philosophy: Worry about what is important and build a championship team.
I am enjoying my time in Montreal but it seems like a vacation NOT about meeting any of our goals. Go Caps!
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Check out this blog post by Hooman Radfar, Founder and CEO of Clearspring. Good stuff.
One billion and counting. Wow. We have come a long way. I was probably one of the first 100,000 people online in the US. We have a lot of company now.
Well, baby I am.
This weekend, kick back and get into the flow with some Jimi Hendrix. This is a good film on the life and times of one of the most influential musicians of our generation courtesy of SnagFilms.
Here is Variety on our pact with Cinetic. This is great news for indie film lovers and for filmmakers. Cinetic is doing great work and we are honored to partner with them.
As I have said, we have lots of work left to do.
But in the words of Bill Parcells, “You are what your record says you are.”
We have had a good, crisp first half of the season. I am satisfied but not yet happy.
We want to win a Stanley Cup and we aren’t playing Stanley Cup playoff winning hockey yet although we do seem to get up for big games against great teams.
I wish us good health in the second half of the season. We have played well for having so many players shuttle back and forth into the system.
And I hope we just work hard; don’t take shifts off; and focus on playing as a team with an eye on a big collective goal that we all share in.
Go Caps! Enjoy the few days off and then we all get back to work next week.
Here is the second part of a television interview with me on NewsChannel 8. This is a good show that focuses on local business leaders. I am honored to have done the first interview and wish them nothing but success.
This article raises some good thoughts as to the pace of innovation and how one company can scale quickly; become a leader and then slowly decay. Creating a second great act is very hard indeed. Kudos to Apple Computer as I believe they are truly the only company that has successfully reinvented themselves. Managing for Wall Street and investors instead of customers always make innovation more difficult. Size slows you down. Great employees will always follow the next big thing and the brain drain at the big companies becomes more and more pronounced as the years go by.
The four year reign is pretty accurate, isn’t it? Having lived through AOL’s heyday, we had a four year run where the company had massive hyper growth based on a dial-up ISP related business model but the second act of becoming an ad based business, while a good and pragmatic one, is just not a breakout innovator first mover one. So what is Google’s second act? That is the big question.
Check out this feel good story of the year. Go Caps!