Posts by Mike Taber

It seems like it’s been years since I started using Google Maps and Google Docs. It probably has been for Google Maps, but I only started using Google Docs this past year to write articles for my blog and share them for review with other people. In the past week, my two biggest complaints about…

Well, I’ve put another pair of 60+ hour weeks behind me. Hopefully that’s the end of the extended hours this summer, but I rather doubt it. At least this week the AC in my office should be fixed. I was getting tired of working in an office that was 85+ degrees with high humidity and…

“just can’t wait to get on the road again…” Willie Nelson Well, I’m down in Texas this week. I haven’t been in Texas in nearly 10 years. Not since I was with Clearwire and the senior management flew me down to give a presentation on how I was going to save the company $20 million…

As an addendum to my previous story about my stolen GPS, I checked some local pawn shops and had no luck. I realized after I made that post that the thief also stole a bag of mints from my car. Let’s see here. I’ll steal a $1,000 GPS device, not bother to take the charger,…

Today, I’m on something of a vacation. Sure, it’s Saturday and every Saturday should be a vacation day, but as a single founder, you realize that working 9-5 just isn’t enough when you’re flying solo. I’m actually headed to upstate New York to visit family. Last fall, I bought a Garmin Nuvi 660 GPS to…

This past week, corporate productivity from the home office took a nosedive. No, my 20Mbps network connection didn’t die on me. I bought a Nintendo Wii. While my golf score isn’t quite as low as I’d like for it to be, I’m going to be making an effort to get a lot of serious work…

The past two weeks, I’ve been in Boston, Denver, Las Vegas, Minneapolis, and Providence. Needless to say, it’s been a bit tiring. Fortunately, the next several weeks I get to work out of my office and then I’m back on the road again for a bit. I have an article on hiring for single founder…