Jeff Nolan's take on innovation, entrepreneurship, tech and stuff that interests me
I’m gonna guess there are no stories about being stuck on an airplane at JFK for 10 hours. The thing I don’t understand about this is that when an airport closes and you have people stuck on airplanes on the tarmac… well, you send out the buses and get ‘em off and go back later [...]
15Feb
Posted by Jeff as Companies
I bought my wife some flowers for Valentine’s day from Calyx and Corolla. I had one bad experience with them before because of quality but I figured that was probably the exception considering they make such a point about how they are a high quality florist above the rest of the proflowers.com type sites. Plus, [...]
Wow, this is a very detailed post on how to name a company (via Techmeme). Personally, I think the web 2.0 name generator is still a much easier way to go. While trying to find a name, and words that describe what your company is trying to do, you will find that your brain works [...]
This is kind of interesting, Mike Stonebraker (Ingres fame) has another startup, in addition to the other startup he is also the CTO of. New database company raises funds, nabs ex-Oracle bigwigs – Network World: Vertica Systems, a stealthy start-up building a fast new database management system that runs on Linux-based hardware, has started to [...]
“There are only three sports – bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.” – Ernest Hemingway Whether the above quote is actually Hemingway or not is subject to debate, but I like it nonetheless. Unless you are putting your life on the line, well it’s just games and that pretty much [...]