This is post 10/100. So suck it anonymous. It was not Silas who guessed 9. He guessed 11 and so did someone else. So he can wait a few days to suck it. I agree with Aussa who says the lowball guesses are pretty good motivation. Super local news of the week features me skipping my book group and never RSVPing. On the upside I delivered an IN PERSON RSVP to my friend who is hosting the party tonight. Those penalties offset, right? They featured a “person of Shelburne” who I DON”T KNOW in Read more […]
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October 24, 2013
How to get me to give you money.
What do I do? I mostly crush dreams, and sometimes throw a bit of my own money in to go down with the ship. I am an angel investor in Vermont, and this is part of the story. Someone has a seed of an idea. That person talks to a friend or a colleague about it. Together they sketch out a more complete vision of the project, product, or program. Its all pro right now, except for the most part the team is made of amateurs. They put together something, a pitch deck or a pilot program. They begin Read more […]
Read MoreOctober 24, 2013
First In and Out
Which game show is it where you have to identify mashups of familiar phrases? Like Easier said than done is good. Easier said than done. Done is good. Now that I’ve insulted your intelligence by breaking down my post title I can go back to insulting myself…my real forte. So I was going to try to write around the particulars so as not to upset my friends at Burlington City Arts, but I am pretty sure I am the only jackass in this story. I tell it to try to learn something. For almost a Read more […]
Read MoreSeptember 3, 2013
Money Matters
Amongst taboo topics: money. Listening to Oliver wonder why we shouldn’t talk about our savings and earnings I understand his confusion. I liken it to gender and race, explaining that we shouldn’t categorize people based on facts that they can’t control. He rebuts that we can control how much money we have. I answer that like everything else that is complicated. I mean it is public record that our house is on the market for 1.5 ish million. Like many things I share more about my personal Read more […]
Read MoreOctober 24, 2012
Tangled up in…
Its one of those full full full moments. I never write in these, because the threads don’t seem to untangle themselves. But I want to now. A friend’s father is dying and I stood with her today, October sunlight streaming in across her face as she told how much dying was like being born. The messy-ness. The dependence. That we focus on the positive of birth and the negative of death but it really isn’t so cut and dry really. It is all nature. I have written about death a lot. Even on this blog. Read more […]
Read MoreOctober 26, 2011
The (not so) secret side.
The push and pull of creating solutions for global markets while still staying rooted to a state like Vermont with emerging financial and technological resources is not a new story. It is the (not so) secret side of doing business in a small community, great support and exposure, which often leads you scrambling for the local resources to support your growth. One of the main features of Seven Days’ technology issue highlighted Draker Laboratories, a privately held Burlington Vermont Company. Read more […]
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