We recently converted my home office to hardwood flooring from carpet. Doing this required that the room be emptied, including a big filing cabinet. I decided it was time to do a filter through that filing cabinet and found some fun things from a many years ago. One of those …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Flashback: BigCharts Partnership Portfolio from 1997At a coffee shop and the woman at the table next to me is selling a Yellow Pages listing to a guy. Tough sell. Lot of work for not much revenue.
When I was traveling in the UK I had a couple of really interesting experiences using the normal set of online services I use. The Internet really doesn’t have a concept of countries, but I found myself unable to do some things while I was there because various online services …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: Google Language Detection ProblemsSaying goodbye to nearly 5 months off. What a great, great summer it has been. Feeling very fortunate.
I got the exciting news a couple of weeks ago that I was selected to be one of the recipients of the Minneapolis St. Paul Business Journal’s 40 Under Forty awards. The process to be selected involves a nomination process. The editors receive letters from people and then sift …
Keep reading · 1 minute: 40 Under Forty AwardLast night was my absolutely amazing farewell party at the Bernard’s house. The gang put together this awesome going away video for me. It’s just great. Thank you so much everyone. Who would have ever thought reading “twitters” could be so funny! There is an amazing, completely …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: MarketWatch Farewell VideoJust turned in SecurID, company ID, American Express card, etc. whew…
Completely overwhelmed with all the heartfelt comments from people on my last day.
Last tweet from my Dow Jones office. See you on the other side!
Today I’m closing a very long chapter in my career. This is my last day at Dow Jones/MarketWatch. This transition has been in the works for a while. It was announced in January and over the course of the following months I’ve been able to wrap-up some projects, transition others …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: MarketWatch, Dow Jones Chapter ClosingCompletely flattered by all the amazing emails I’ve been getting from people as my final day at Dow Jones approaches. In the end, it’s all about people.
There are a few points in the history of BigCharts and MarketWatch that I’m especially proud of. Perhaps one of the most prominent ones, and most public, is the inclusion of the BigCharts BigArchitecture (the name we retroactively gave the COM-infrastructure behind MarketWatch …
Keep reading · 3 minutes: Flashback: MarketWatch in Windows 2000 Launch