Every Coffee Has A Home. Yet Not Every Home Has Coffee.

The sun was rising with equatorial brilliance from the valley floor, casting it’s tingling rays upon my face. The cool, moist tropical breeze tickled my face with fern frond delicacy soothed away the lie of “roosters rise at dawn” still fresh in my mind after the damn rooster who stood righteously outside my little cabin…… Continue reading Every Coffee Has A Home. Yet Not Every Home Has Coffee.

Hands Dirty and Knee Deep in the Messy, Risky Act of Creation

  I am most engaged, satisfied and passionate when I am getting my hands and mind dirty knee deep in the active creation process. It’s a risky, chaotic, intuitive process. Both in business and in life there are two differing positions that you can be in. Hands dirty and knee deep in it creating Or…… Continue reading Hands Dirty and Knee Deep in the Messy, Risky Act of Creation

The Great And Mighty Why

Last night I had a brilliant hangout with one of my all time favorite people, mentors and idols, Wayne Rickard. We met for beers at the La Jolla Karl Strauss. We first met way back in 1998 when i started my first tech startup Centripetal to do the first ever Storage as a Service (the…… Continue reading The Great And Mighty Why

The Perfect Pitch – Can You Really Get VC Laid In An Elevator?

There is a mythos surrounding the perfect pitch in the tech startup world.The mythical elevator pitch that you can whip out in under 30 seconds for that rare life changing moment when instead of getting your ass kicked by Solange you find that your elevator car mate is Marc Andreesen. You have practiced and polished…… Continue reading The Perfect Pitch – Can You Really Get VC Laid In An Elevator?

All You Have To Do Is Think Like An Employee. (So We’re Screwed.)

My Wife Is An Entrepreneur. She is at least as batshit crazy as I am. Most of our life she has felt the need to be the grounding rod to my lighting storms of lunacy. She has, to date, failed at this. My utter lunacy and overwhelming propensity to leap before looking overwhelms all safeguards…… Continue reading All You Have To Do Is Think Like An Employee. (So We’re Screwed.)