Monthly Archives: March 2007

Update of Research: Finding Previous Company Employees

As I have mentioned in this blog’s description, I will be updating certain entries from time to time as I am using this blog as a way to organize my research resources. Today I have updated Research: Finding Previous Company Employees.

Great post by Darren!

A friend and former colleague of mine, Darren, has always amazed me. He has done it again with this great blog on the Zune and iPod. I am an Apple lover… but this made me smile.

PCWorld: 101 Fantastic Freebies

A great article by PCWorld was released today concerning freeware. I love these type of articles due to my interest in web businesses and due to the fact that I find these start-ups to be fascinating There are tons of stellar companies listed here, and just seeing many of them listed made me go back [...]

CEO of Year: James Lee Sorenson

Yesterday I attended the CEO of the Year event put on by Utah Business Magazine, honoring James Lee Sorenson. I usually don’t blog about events on this blog (my personal blog is a different story) but wanted to mention this one as I truly respect Jim Sorenson. Jim is a great business man, responsible for [...]

Economic Impact of VC

The NVCA released a study and press release last week that covered the topic of the economic impact of venture capital in the U.S. I was intrigued to read the report as I have seen numbers of the impact that our portfolio companies have had on the Utah environment, but had yet to look into [...]

Research: Finding Historical Stock Quotes for an Inactive Company

A couple weeks ago I was helping a friend of mine try to find historical stock quote information for a stock that is now currently inactive. We searched everywhere and could not find any information! I would think that the past quotes would still be widely available, but we seriously searched every resource we thought [...]

Nano Invisible Shield

I applied the invisible shield to my nano the day after receiving it. At first there were little bubbles in the back, which the directions said would ease themselves out within a 24-hour period. Sure enough… today there are no bubbles and I have a completely protected nano. I love it! Here is a picture [...]

Shout out for Invisble Shield

I heard about Invisible Shield from a friend of mine who lives in Dublin (nickname H.I.P #1). When I went to the Slopecast Luncheon approximately two weeks ago I sat by the Invisible Shield founders and the story came out that I had heard about this local company from my friend across the pond. They [...]

Research: Analyst Reports

I am always on the hunt for analyst reports, which are extremely tricky to find unless willing to pay thousands of dollars (which I am not). Some resources that I have found to be useful include: Reuters On Demand – If the publication being searched for is from a business analyst or analyst group, the [...]

Being Accepted without Ever Applying.

Lately I have been thinking about going back to school. I plan on taking the GMAT this summer in hopes of going back to grad school by August 2008. However, I have also thought about completing some computer science classes while working in order to get a better understanding of computer hardware and perhaps starting [...]