Unsolicited Advice

Have You Caught The Irony in Criticizing Romney for Bain Capital?

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ January 31, 2012 / Leave a comment

I have a feeling it’s going to be a theme for the next 10 months or so to criticize Mitt Romney’s role at Bain Capital. This is just raw ignorance, it shows a lack of understanding about private equity, struggling companies or capitalism in general. Unfortunately, there’s a very sad,...
Better or Worse, Your Call

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ January 30, 2012 / Leave a comment

“Today, you’re either going to get better or you’re going to get worse but you’re not going to stay the same, so which is it going to be?” - Joe Paterno In the 10 minutes of JoePa’s ceremony that I watched, the quote above was one of the ones that...
My Evolving Thoughts on Fun

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ January 26, 2012 / Leave a comment

If you know me very well, you know I’m a bit of a workaholic. I am very committed to my day job and usually have a project or two going in my spare time. The truth is, I’m not usually very happy if I don’t feel that I’m accomplishing something...
Joe Paterno and Making Something Great

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ January 25, 2012 / Leave a comment

I have been busy helping get my brother married and haven’t had much of a chance to think about, let alone mark, the passing of Joe Paterno. Now that I’m back on the blog though, I thought it would be worth doing. I considered listing his accomplishments. I considered explaining...
The Next Steve Jobs

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ January 14, 2012 / Leave a comment

The other day I wrote a post about how Steve Jobs made Apple a great company by slowly but surely helping people conquer their fears about technology. He made computers usable without knowing how to type on a command line with the mac, made the crazy complicated world of music...
What Made Steve Jobs Rich

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ January 11, 2012 / Leave a comment

Different industrial titans have risen to their throne for different reasons. Henry Ford and IBM figured how to make something that previously had to be built by hand in an efficient, industrial manner. Thomas Edison came up with a completely new invention. Bill Gates created an ecosystem by enabling both...
Yammer, Twitter, Skype, Sametime and How Enterprises Will Adopt Technology

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ January 6, 2012 / Leave a comment

As I perused my reader this morning I found an interesting note on TechCrunch talking about both the success of Yammer! and mentioning that they’ll be raising another round of financing. For those of you who don’t know about Yammer! it is a set of social media technologies that can...
Welcome to Facebank

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ January 5, 2012 / Leave a comment

I was scanning through my morning news and came across this interesting little prediction from Gartner (via RWW); Facebook and other social networks will begin to add banking and insurance services. The rest of the article is a snooze fest that mainly revolves around 3 points: Social Media sites need...
2012: The New Year’s Resolution Post

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ January 4, 2012 / Leave a comment

When I went from part-time blogger to near-daily blogger at the beginning of 2010, I did it with a post about New Year’s resolutions. I kept up the tradition last year, and have finally taken the time (it’s taken a few days to hammer out this year’s posts). When I...
2012 Crystal Ball: A Year of Clarity in the TV Industry

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ December 29, 2011 / Leave a comment

When you think of the evolution of television you need to think of it in two parts. First, there is a need for televisions to evolve from a communications and software perspective. Essentially, your television, like all the other screens in your life from your cell phone to your tablet...