$99, 3-day mini-MBA (but that’s not all!)
Startup Weekend Fredericksburg
Stop… Go
If you, your colleagues and your organization at-large make excellent, almost-never-bad decisions stop reading here!!! Do NOT click through to the rest of this post. You don’t need it.
If, on the other hand, you, your colleagues and/or your organization could stand to improve decision making you might want to click in…
Sequestration lemonade
Good things CAN come from the 2013 budget sequestration.
Last Tuesday night (March 26, 2013), Bill Blevins and I attended the first meeting of FredX (organized by Matt Armstrong and Christine Goodwin (@cag123) – thanks guys!).
From the FredX Facebook page:
FredX is a platform for entrepreneurs and thought leaders to Xchange ideas, create solutions, and stimulate collaboration for building and sustaining a thriving startup ecosystem in the Fredericksburg region.
At this meeting we touched on the fact that a limiting factor in the development of new companies in the region is the dearth of accessible talent and capital. Paradoxically, sequestration can help the region grow in diverse ways.
Best golf course in America
American Lake Veterans Golf Course clubhouse
My sister (an avid and skilled golfer) sent me a link to the best golf course in America. American Lake Veteran’s Golf Course is a golf course dedicated to our military veterans.
No title big enough
This is not a new video but worth sharing nonetheless.
Dick Hoyt makes me want to be a better man.
HUGE step forward for digital literacy
It’s no secret that the leverage available to information technology innovators is HUGE. I can’t think of another human endeavor that, with the investment in an Amazon EC2 node or two and a few weekends of software development, can change the lives of people around the world. If you need a moving example of this power check the video (below) that describes a project undertaken by The MicroLoan Foundation.
Sportsmanship DEFINED
After all the press about Ndamukong Suh and his stomping and kicking and Lance Armstrong and his antics, it’s moving to see proper sportsmanship being cultivated and demonstrated.
In El Paso, Texas Coach Peter Morales of the Coronado High School Thunderbirds was willing to lose a game in order that his team manager get some playing time. As moving as that is it gets better.
On Tuesday, February 19, 2013 Jonathan Montanez (#22) demonstrated a level of humanity and sportsmanship that I pray my wife and I are instilling in our children.
Awesome and inspiring.
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