Great Web Series – The Line

Read more about this comedy nerd extravaganza at the NY Times.

Or better yet, go watch episodes on hulu. Simon Rich is writing for it.

A Letter to Matt (my business partner)

Obie Fernandez runs one of the top Rails consultancies.  He gave a pretty interesting talk at Ruby Fringe that goes into how they handle getting business and what they consider important for their consulting contracts, about using a Master Service Agreement.  (the contract stuff starts about 22 minutes in)  Thought it might be up your alley.

Related-ly, an old friend/ Starwood boss Todd has started transforming his
company into working with (design) agencies to provide technical services to their clients.

It’s a pretty interesting stance. It’s essentially what I’ve been doing lately, but I haven’t been branding myself as a company.

I don’t want to run a design/ marketing web company. And I’m not hardcore (or self-confident) enough to run a technology consultancy.

Maybe we should start to think of Reinvent Retail more as providing technology solutions to
independent businesses. That’s a mission I feel confident about getting behind.

P.S. Reinvent Retail is now the number one google hit for “Reinvent Retail”

Edit: Matt also does awesome (Business and Entertainment) law work in Columbus Ohio, I can’t recommend him highly enough. His site is http://www.earley-law.com/

GOP Aborts Convention Plans

hire me onion.