I was laid off from my job
5 June, 2007 | | Category: Business & Economy
My suggestion for salesgenie.com: Spend another $100K on ad production and maybe, just maybe, it would have worked. Or spend $100 and hire a cowboy on stilts to walk around in front of your business. Pick one.
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How TV Offers Best Practices for Writing Your Elevator Pitch. Really.
January 31st, 2007
The 30-second elevator pitch is the compressed, concise, persuasive and authentic version of your story. Examples of good ones?
Idea Sandbox recommends we look closely at the 30-second narrations at the beginning of TV shows. And it’s great advice. Check that out.
After my last post you may be wondering if there is any kind of racing that I don’t watch. Well I’m not a huge follower of horse racing though I did catch the Kentucky Derby this year. You can push a machine to its breaking point and it never feels pain, even though you might try to make it feel some out of desperation. But what they do, with drugs, to some of these racehorses is borderline cruelty. I’ve never seen the sport or entertainment in watching a thoroughbreds break his leg during a race.
For the same reason I’m not a huge fan of bicycle races either. Doping has always been a problem with any test of strength and stamina and aside from it being outright cheating it also cheapens the entire contest both for other competitors and the fans. Anyway, my thoughts.. your opinion may differ.
Another Door Opens
So that was quick.
It turns out I got an offer I couldn’t refuse. In an odd twist of fate, I will be working on the OpenNMS code base, for the third time. (This one’s the charm, right?)
I will be doing community-facing stuff, as well as helping out with all the little things anyone has to do at a very small company. I get to do what I love, which is: a little bit of everything. 
Another Door Opens
So that was quick.
It turns out I got an offer I couldn’t refuse. In an odd twist of fate, I will be working on the OpenNMS code base, for the third time. (This one’s the charm, right?)
I will be doing community-facing stuff, as well as helping out with all the little things anyone has to do at a very small company. I get to do what I love, which is: a little bit of everything.
Thanks to everyone for their support, I guess I’ll see you folks in #opennms on Monday! (OK, technically I’m already there, but man, that’s not as poetic.)
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May 9, 2007
One Door Closes…
So along with some other folks, I was laid off from my job at Raritan today. Although I’m disappointed to be leaving a stellar group of people to work with, I’m heartened by the outpouring of commiseration (and job offers!) from everyone. Thank you so much!
If you know of anything interesting for a Perl/Java/Mac/Open-Source/Geek kind of person, let me know. And check out my resume while you’re at it.
Thanks to everyone for their support, I guess I’ll see you folks in #opennms on Monday! (OK, technically I’m already there, but man, that’s not as poetic.)
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So along with some other folks, I was laid off from my job at Raritan today. Although I’m disappointed to be leaving a stellar group of people to work with, I’m heartened by the outpouring of commiseration (and job offers!) from everyone. Thank you so much!
If you know of anything interesting for a Perl/Java/Mac/Open-Source/Geek kind of person, let me know. And check out my resume while you’re at it.
You may have noticed the addition of some random images along the right side of the page. Those are from my Flickr gallery and should randomly display three different ones each time you refresh the page. If you’d like to investigate further just click on the image.
Also, Startup Nation features elevator pitch contests on its podcasts.
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Signs 7: Which came first, the brand or the branding?
January 31st, 2007
Did a famous bar incorporate “famous” into its name, or did the act of incorporating “famous” into the name manifest fame?
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RFID and Mini Cooper - “Tribal Marketing” or Agency Idea-Makers Run Amuck?
January 29th, 2007
Mini, at the suggestion of its agency Butler, Shine, Stern and Partners, created a voluntary participation program in which select Mini Cooper owners attached an RFID fob to their keychain containing personal information such as occupation, birthday, etc.