Life Putting - Dan Putt

Lessons Learned an Entrepreneurial Endeavor that didn’t work out

danputt1 — Thu, 14 May 2009 00:24:08 +0000

Image via Wikipedia Well it’s official, or at least it feels that way. I don’t think we’re going to ever sell the GJG directly to users profitably. It doesn’t mean that GJG is a flawed concept, it just means that Chris and I are unable to sell it effectively with our approach. And [...]

How to Grow Your Own Fresh Air - TED 2009 « GreenSpaces Blog

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 01:27:42 +0000

Found this really interesting Ted Talk by Greenspaces where they discuss the amazing effects indoor plants can have on air quality and productivity. I thought this was amazing: Our experience points to an amazing increase in human productivity resulting from using these plants to be >20%, and energy costs to reduce by an extraordinary >15%. How [...]

How to Grow Your Own Fresh Air - TED 2009 ” GreenSpaces Blog

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 01:27:42 +0000

The Atlantic Online | March 2009 | How the Crash Will Reshape America | Richard Florida

Wed, 04 Mar 2009 03:02:58 +0000

Amazing, but very long article in The Atlantic looking at how the Crash will Reshape America…Liked this: The housing bubble was the ultimate expression, and perhaps the last gasp, of an economic system some 80 years in the making, and now well past its “sell-by” date. The bubble encouraged massive, unsustainable growth in places where land [...]

Best Life Magazine The One That Got Away

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:06:31 +0000

Amazing (but long) article on Omega 3's and why it makese a lot of sense to take them…a great quote: Among the Japanese, who each eat an average of 145 pounds of fish a year, rates of depression and homicide are strikingly low. Meanwhile, men who live in landlocked nations such as Austria and Hungary, where [...]

Inputs of Entrepreneurship

danputt1 — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:44:03 +0000

Image via Wikipedia I’ve been thinking and wondering a lot lately about what needs to come together to create a working company. I’m not going to touch the issue of “successful,” company because that’s really impossible to quantify (at least for me), so instead I’m just going to look at what I think is needed to [...]

Can I fix it?

danputt1 — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 02:00:35 +0000

Image via Wikipedia I’m very happy my gym has flat panel tv’s called Cardio Theater hooked up to all cardio equipment so I can watch cnn, espn, or sometimes cnbc while either running or exercising on the elliptical trainer. I am not very happy, though, at how crappy and unreliable the Cardio Theaters seem to be. [...]

Hot, Flat, Crowded -thoughts

danputt1 — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 00:00:35 +0000

I recently finished Thomas Friedman’s latest book: Hot, Flat, Crowded and I loved it. He does a great job describing the major problems facing our increasingly hot, flat, and crowded world, which include booming population growth, more energy demand, a changing climate, and rapidly accelerating biodiversity loss. (Rapidly accelerating biodiversity loss is a topic covered [...]

Opportunities in the moment

danputt1 — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 01:45:49 +0000

Image via Wikipedia I’ve been meaning to write something on Fred Wilson’s post last week on job losses here in the US, noting that the announcement last week of 75,000 jobs being wiped out in one day exceeded the amount of jobs he had helped create in 22 years of venture investing. Wow. He goes [...]

The 10 Commandments of Zappos - Jan. 22, 2009

Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:50:32 +0000

I love Zappos as a customer and as an admirer of well run companies. They have built a successful business on treating people very well, both employees and customers. Here is a quick article in Fortune containing their 10 commandments. The 10 Commandments of Zappos - Jan. 22, 2009