Continual Improvement

• Alice.com
  Online shopping – Manage all of your Home Essentials
  (tags: via:bwhichard shopping online retail groceries free alice)

• Mike Lunt's Blog: QA Testing – To cloud, or not to cloud…
  Should we move part or all of our engineering lab to the cloud? We currently have an internal project to determine what makes sense for our expansion.
  (tags: cloud development QA testing ec2 rackspace amazon virtualization)

• Gloomy Data on VC Funds | Texas Startup Blog
  While I'm sure VCs could start raising more money, this is not a good forecast for future startups.
  (tags: starup venture VC funding entrepreneurship money)

Walking the trails in Steiner.

Originally uploaded by Mike Lunt.

• Angels and Control | Why not offer the entrepreneur this sort of deal.
  This is an interesting approach. My favorite quote: "an entrepreneur’s illusion of control"
  (tags: business startup career VC venture funding angel entrepreneurship illusion)
• Job hunting? Watch what you tweet
  There's not doubt this is true with blogs, and I've done some quick searches in the past. Everyone should Google themselves to see what a quick search will turn up.
  (tags: twitter tweet socialnetworking job resume career)

• Phys Ed: Can Running Actually Help Your Knees?
  Phys Ed: Can Running Actually Help Your Knees?
  (tags: running health knees arthritis fitness exercise aging via:texflats)

• Workplace rudeness is contagious
  I've always said a negative attitude spreads like a virus, and this proves it.
  (tags: rudeness virus viral negative attitude workplace office productivity)

• Clouds are gathering over the venture capital industry – San Jose Mercury News
  Strong forecast for the VC world. It seems a bit extreme in mind, but if it's true, starting a company will be much harder in the near future.
  (tags: venture capital VC entrepreneurship Andreeseen)

• Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule
  Interesting point of view about developers and other mental craftsman. It's probably a tad impractical for any company of any size.
  (tags: productivity management programming meetings collaboration development)

• Despite end of IPO drought, U.S. venture-backed liquidity market at 6-year low – Austin Business Journal:
  In addition, the median amount of time it took to reach liquidity via M&A was 4.5 years, 25 percent less time than the 6-year median in the second quarter of 2008.
  (tags: venture st)

• Hunch
  Crowd-sourcing search engine. It's a bit addictive to start answering the questions.
  (tags: crowd search hunch crowdsourcing community flickr)

• Agile comic – Keeping the Agile dream alive.
  A touch of Agile humor and small play off of "Data Dave" for those previous coworkers…
  (tags: agile comic strip humor software process "Agile Andy")

• How Agile Projects Measure Up, and What This Means to You « The Agile Executive
  The Agile paper I helped author is now free for download.
  (tags: "michael mah" agile paper metrics cutter)

• The Option Pool Shuffle – Venture Hacks
  Interesting information on employee option pool. Includes planning ranges for new hires.
  (tags: VC startup options funding entrepreneurship business stock venture compensation via:bwhichard pool)

• Start up Employee Stock Options
  What every employee going to a startup should understand. It's amazing how many people don't ask these simple questions to determine worth.
  (tags: startup stock via:bwhichard options shares percentage)
• Start up Stock Options: Pool Size and Employee Grants
  Interesting breakdown of the percentages offered to employees at tech startups.
  (tags: via:bwhichard VC venture capital stock options)