Blog posts on 2007-02

101 Dumbest Moments in Business
30 Minute Podcast Interview With Me
A Day With the U.S. Air Force
A Mouse that Fits Inside your Laptop
Accepting a Seat on a Board
An Objection Doesn't Mean No
As Predicted, VMware will IPO in 2007
at&t and FuturePhone – POTS Calls the Kettle Black
at&t and FuturePhone – POTS Calls the Kettle Black
Avoid Airplane Seats that Stink
Avoiding "Death by PowerPoint"
Back Up Your Brain with Your Camera
Backstabber Protection (or, Why a Good Offense is the Best Defense)
Best of Ben - Popular Posts from the Archives
Blogging and an Intellectual Bottom Line
Boomers, Xers, and Millenials
Boomers, Xers, and Millenials
Bring Your Coffee Pot to Work
Buy the Customer Lunch - At His/Her Office
By Locating Your Start-Up in Silicon Valley, Are You More Likely to Succeed?
Can Baseball Strategy Help Your Startup Hire Better?
Can Baseball Strategy Help Your Startup Hire Better?
Can You Imagine if You Needed an MBA to Be in Business?
Cancel Noise without Blowing Your Budget
Capitulation: The Power of Giving Up
Caught in a Geek's Gravitational Field
Caught in a Geek's Gravitational Field
College Theme Party: South of the Border
Come Ski Vermont
Cool Tool of the Day: T-Mobile Edge
Corn’s Day in the Sun
Country Music and the Pursuit of Happiness
Crankypants In the Workplace
Create Your Own Post Office
Death By Feeds
Death to Blog Widgets!
Declare Yourself An Expert, Then Work Backwards
Do Boards of Advisors Work?
Do You BlackBerry In Board Meetings?
Does Coaching Hockey Block the Goal?
Dubious Startup Ideas #1: Simple Email Workflow
Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.
Education Solves Everything? Err, Not So Fast
el-gooG – Google Gets Local Backwards
Embracing Randomness in Your Product -- Or Your Life
F--k you, 2,000 Bloggers
FeedBurner Validates Google Reader Domination
Fiber or Radio? Yes!
Finding the Pressure Point
Freelancing from Your Desk
Get Free Internet Access when You Travel
Get Out of a Client Vendor Bender
Going for the Jugular in Ping Pong
GooTube's Video Blunder
Guardian Unlimited: I Hate Macs
Guardian Unlimited: I Hate Macs
Hedge Your Travel Bets
Help! My Boss Stole My Great Idea!
Home Depot's Extreme Makeover
How Do YOU Define Selling?
How Do You Find Good Ideas?
How to Add Value to Someone Smarter Than You
How to Construct an Advisory Board
How to Drive Marketing Crazy
How to Get Rid of Formatting Headaches
In Search of Jim Gray
In Search of Jim Gray
Increase Your USB Power
Inside the Minds of Your Employees
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – Summary for Policymakers
Is Honesty the Best Career Policy?
Is There Such a Thing as an Unaccomplished Genius?
JetBlue – Words and Action
Kaygetsu: NOT backed by Larry and Steve
Lessons in Customer Support
Leveraging Secrets, Without Undermining Reputation
Local: The First Life Opportunity
Make Yourself Cheap
Mark Your Calendars: Entrepreneurship Week @ Stanford
Mark Your Calendars: Entrepreneurship Week @ Stanford
Marketing In A Make Believe World
Marketing on a Microscopic Budget
Marketing on a Microscopic Budget
Meet Me at the Water Cooler. (Wink. Wink.)
Meeting MC Hammer
Michael Arrington’s should Read before He Writes
Morph of a Nerd CEO – Sick Days are Sick
Need Nerdy Stuff? ThinkGeek
No Spouse, No Kids? That's Your Problem!
On the Ground in Shanghai -- A New Blog on Business and Life
Patenting Technologies – A Cost-Benefit Analysis
Personal Brand Lessons from Mohammad Ali
Photo of the Day -- Wounded Marine Returns to Get Married
Prepare and Be Prepared
Protecting Company Secrets During a Layoff
Questions for Michael Vick - Really?
Quote of the Day: A Single Identity a Liability?
Repost of Kansas City to Boulder webcam video
Retrofit Your Old PC with Bluetooth
Send Yourself Huge Files Fast
Small Town, USA: Limon, CO
Smart Cell Phone Tricks
Social Networking and Your Business
Startup Founders: Are You Too Assertive, Or Not Enough?
Startup Founders: Are You Too Assertive, Or Not Enough?
Startup Founders: The Involved vs. The Committed
Startups: Why What You Build Is Less Important Than Who You Build It With
Status Report: The New BNET
Stay Productive When You're Forced Offline
Steve Jobs: Prophet or Self-Promoter?
Stop the Fridge Thieves!
Super Bowl Thoughts . . .
Super Bowl Thoughts . . .
Television and the Internet
Television on The Internet – How much Bandwidth is Needed? Where?
Ten Gaffes of Proposal Writing
The ABCs of Closing
The American West as Idea, Not Fact
The Art of the Cold Call Pitch
The Art of the Out-of-Office AutoReply
The BNET Redesign... and Your Comments
The Downside of Your Upside
The Drone of the Speakerphone
The Fast Way to Make a Vista PC Faster
The Grand Unified Theorem of Blogging
The Hierarchy of Hotness
The Hierarchy of Hotness
The JetBlue Post Mortem, Part 1: What Went Wrong?
The JetBlue Post Mortem, Part 2: Damage Control
The JetBlue Post Mortem, Part 3: What Comes Next?
The Key to Demand Creation
The Keys to Prosperity in 2007
The Male Locker Room
The MoneyTree Shook - Q4 2006
The Perennial Struggle: Continuous vs. Breakthrough Innovation
The Quintessential Hero of the Forbes Profile
The Saddest Paragraphs I Read Today
Time of Day Pricing for Electricity
To Sue or Not to Sue?
Truth, Justice, and the American Way
Truth, Justice, and the American Way
Turn Your Flash Drive into a PC Key
TXU Buyout – Private Equity Funds Paint Themselves Green
Unanswered Questions at the New York Times
VC Valuations Are On The Rise: Is Your Startup Worth More?
VCs Follow Entrepreneurs
VMware Q42006 Results Exceed Expectations
Voice 2.0 – Fuggetaboutit!
Want Me to Speak At Your Org or School?
Ways For PR Reps To Get Cozy With The MSM
Web 2.0 is Stuck at a Local Optimum
What Does Society Overcomplicate?
What Makes Up Your Identity?
When Can You Generalize From a Specific Experience? Do We Discount Unusual Events Often Enough?
When Does the Boss Become Big Brother?
When Email Attacks (or, What the F*#%!!!)
When the Harrassment of Others Becomes Your Problem
When to Think Hard, When to Outsource
When Your Passion Becomes Your Livelihood and Other Ideas from Tim Ferriss
Where to Find Great Gear
Who Needs Streaming Video?
Why "Me Too" Startups Are Not Always A Mistake
Why "Me Too" Startups Are Not Always A Mistake
Why Blog Famous Isn't Real Famous
Why Cold Pitches Don't Work
Why Do You "Intellectually Respect" Someone?
Why I'm Not A Blogger
Why Specialists Are Grumpy and Generalists Are Happy
Will a New Tattoo Become Career Suicide?
Will Our School System Survive Transition to the Creative Age?
Will the UN Save the World from Asteroids?
Willie Sutton and Silicon Valley
World-Weary Workers