Author: Rick Klau

Ross Mayfield: “My grandpa taught me the difference between an entrepreneur and a businessman is the entrepreneur is in it for the quick flip, while a businessman makes a lasting contribution to the community.”

Eric Zorn: “The entire industry is no doubt watching this move closely and when it succeeds, look for stock tables to join ocean-liner schedules in the things-we-used-to-print file.”

Interesting article from Bruce MacEwen in Law Technology News about Milbank’s decision to outsource their word processing to Chennai, India. Milbank chose to work with OTH (a joint venture of Office Tiger, a 2500 employee company specializing in outsourced word processing and proofreading, and Hildebrandt, a well-known U.S. management consulting firm focused on the legal…

From Rafe Needleman: I keep a small blog, rafeneedleman.com. By small, I mean it doesn’t get a lot of traffic. Yet nearly every time I mention a startup company in it, I quickly get an e-mail from the CEO regarding the post. How is it possible that such a small blog can be so widely…

Zorn asks, and I deliver. The object of his blogging (and therefore indirectly my blogging), is Barabara’s blogging about Eric’s blogging: [Reading Zorn] can suck away your time, though, so watch out if you are on the clock at work and start reading Zorn. You mean I can’t get paid to blog about him blogging…

The #2 guy in the FBI at the time was Deep Throat. I never focused closely enough to play the guessing game, but this is obviously a big deal…

It was great fun catching up with Josh Marshall a couple weeks back in NYC; we’ve known each other for nearly ten years and over the past five years or so it’s really been incredible to watch his career trajectory. Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy. Anyway, one of the things we talked about was…

Friends of mine are (unfortunately) moving from Naperville, and have just put their house on the market. If you’re looking for a home in Naperville, you ought to give their house a look. It’s a 4 bedroom, 2.5 bath home with lots of recent work done, a great yard, and a very convenient location (just…

Man, the jokes pretty much write themselves.

Happened upon a great deal downtown this weekend for the Victorinox backpack I mentioned a few days ago. I was also looking at the Tumi Bethune laptop which just wasn’t quite as roomy as the Victorinox. Best of all, Kaehler’s had the backpack on sale for almost $50 less than it’s selling for at Amazon,…