Business Wisdom from the North Pole
Imagine if Amazon.com did more than just sell you stuff. Imagine that they manufactured and delivered stuff. Imagine that they competed with other ecommerce...
Mr Cranky DCTech 2018 Year in Review – a year in advance
Anyone can tell you what happened in 2017 but only right here in this space, right here...
WhoopAss Thankfulness
On this Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for WhoopAss I'm thankful for: All the turds who have allowed me to blow off steam by opening a can of WhoopAss on them, especially Danny Boice, Jenifer Mellon, Evan Burfield and many more. That those turds drove my website SEO and get me tons of clicks! For that lovely Demand Letter that loser Boice from Dumpster Fire Trustify sent me and all the fun my readers and I derived from that. I'm also very thankful that Boice couldn't afford a decent attorney! Thank you! For my readers and fans who feed me tips and information For all the authentic business people who are building real businesses and not working on the intersection of this and that thinking outside the box creating kickass communities disrupting the world innovating innovative inventions creating highly-segmented uber-nichey identity communities that exclude intelligent people of high character because they are the wrong, religion, ethnicity, national origin and emphasizing our differences in place of promoting inclusion (okay, maybe I'm just whining because there isn't a meetup for Cranky Old White Dudes and I feel slighted) Most of all I'm thankful for my clients, friends, and family In Celebration of my thankfulness, I'd like to...
Sitting Down to be Interviewed by Tien Wong
Tien Wong is one of the most connected and accomplished business people in DC. I was honored when he asked me to sit down with him to be the first person interviewed on the inaugural episode of his Web Interview Show...
Hey 500 Startups, 2005 called, they want their values back!
500 Startups' Dave McLure is no stranger to controversy. He's rarely lost an opportunity to broadcast his tone deaf value system at the top of his...
Real People Around The World – Geraldo
A couple weeks ago I was speaking with Rodney Loges, President of One Degree Capital, a smart, veteran businessman as well as a veteran veteran. Now Rodney's a blog in his self. I've been trying to get him to join one of my Peer Advisory Groups for 10 years with no luck. He'd be a great member who would give, maybe more than he gets. But that's another blog. A few weeks ago, Rodney told me a story. When ever he travels, he'll interview shopkeepers. Strike up a conversation and find out what drives these people, why do they do what they do. It was a fascinating idea and I told him I'd steal it during my next vacation. That's this blog post. Geraldo the Mexican Scholar and Nytor Server Walking past the main square of Copenhagen's old town, Mrs Cranky (don't ever call her that if you value your life), head squarely buried in her Rick Steves' Scandinavia book, as we walked past an outdoor cafe Restaurant Nytorv Cafe, a waiter directs called out, "Hi, is that Rick Steves book?" "Yes," She-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Called-Mrs-Cranky replies. The waiter (Geraldo) continued, "Check out page, 107...
Mashable’s 10 Best Spoof Twitter Accounts
According to Mashable these are their top 10 Spoof Twitter Accounts for 2011 Not Mark Zuckerberg @notzukcerberg Sample Tweet: A Google+ account is like a...
Observations on Bios by @ashleymayer
Very terse succinct observation from Ashley Mayer of Social Capital...
King of the Startup Apps
King of the Startup Apps Mr Cranky is the new King of the Startup Apps because I've got a bunch of great ideas. that I'm proud to announce will join the new incoming cohort of the Brake Decelerator. Brake for those who are unfamiliar, is a Super-de-duper 1776 DC-like decelerator. Like 1776 we say we're a Venture Fund and we're not. In fact the only thing holding Brake back from being a 1776 rival is that unlike Evan Burfield, the guys who run Brake actually have had profitable exits and not a record of being booted by investors from the only companies they ever founded. Oh and we don't unintentionally invest in crappy companies...