I have been actively managing my finances (i.e. budgeting, investing, etc.) for the past 4 or 5 years and have noticed that the process is substantially easier through the deployment of a personal financial management solution. For the past 2.5 years I have been using the Utah-based start-up mVelopes for my financial management needs. I [...]
Sorry for the lack of posts lately. I am on vacation, climbing in Squamish and Whistler. I had high hopes of putting out a couple posts while away… but… it hasn’t happened and most likely won’t. =) I will resume when I get home on the 22nd.
The latest version of WordPress came out a couple weeks ago but I was stalling on upgrading due to a warning my hosting company posted. After doing two different types of backups, one through the hosting service and one through a shell script Rob wrote, I decided to take the plunge and do the WordPress [...]
Numerous posts and tweets have been hitting the Utah scene lately concerning Phil Burn’s daughter, Serenity, being diagnosed with Leukemia. I blogged a couple days ago about the new Chip In Widget, created by Jesse Stay, that thankfully has been distributed amongst a handful of bloggers and is seeing a good up-tick in donations. However, [...]
I subscribe to the Ken Radio newsletter. He often provides tidbits of information that I find interesting, with this last newsletter being no exception as it was concerning the demographic of the woman blogger. I couldn’t find this content on his site (perhaps it was just in his newsletter?!) so will share here. The Women [...]
As many of you local readers and twitter-ers already know, one of the fellow technologist in the area, Phil Burns, learned this past week that his 22-month-old daughter, Serenity, has leukemia. Incredibly heart breaking news, but with the upside that she has immediately started chemotherapy and should be able to survive. His previous business partner, [...]
The WasatchGirl was once picked up by a SLC blog listing, not Connect Blogs (which I know syndicates my blog.. thanks Jordy) but another one I did not know. The site included a description of me that was along the lines of how I blogged on business, technology and venture capital and then on the [...]
I am an active watcher and customer of SteepAndCheap (and the parent company Backcountry.com along with its sibling site Dogfunk.com), repeatedly checking the site for quite a few years. I think their implementation of the “woot” model to sell old inventory is superb, especially now (actually integrated about two years ago) that they have implemented [...]
With the recent name change of my employing firm I figured I would re-visit many of the basics of my job, one of which being my approach to due diligence. Last year I posted about the due diligence process and a business plan breakdown, but over time my viewpoints on analysis have slightly shifted. It [...]
I met Gary VanderChuk briefly at SXSW at the Wine Library Cork’d Party. I have been meaning to watch a full episode of his show for awhile now as I am a wine lover and because I am truly impressed with what he has done for an old industry through the implementation of the web [...]
