by Hans van Putten | Jan 5, 2019 | Just-Saying
I am often asked to share my startup stories. I’m happy to do so . . . up to a point. I reserve the more unique, even bizarre, stories for future publication. Someday, I hope these vignettes will appear in a compilation of tales from the entrepreneurial...
by Hans van Putten | Sep 11, 2018 | Just-Saying
¡Atopa a meu iphone! Find my iPhone . . . in Galician. Yes, I recently spent a very enjoyable ten days in Galicia, visiting Santiago de Compostela, Cambados, O Grove, Pontevedra and other memorable locations. My iPhone and Kindle liked it so much they decided to go...
by Hans van Putten | Jun 22, 2018 | Just-Saying, Peter Dragone Blog
Corporations are people, too. Not in the sense that the Supreme Court ruled in Citizens United, when it allowed corporations the free speech rights accorded to citizens. No, I am referring to business obituaries. Dead companies, like dead people, enjoy the same...
by Hans van Putten | May 23, 2018 | Just-Saying, Peter Dragone Blog
Do business ethics still matter? I never thought I would be asking such a, seemingly heretical, question. The thought of businesses operating without a system of moral and ethical beliefs to guide them is, well, it’s frightening. Chaos would seem to be the logical...
by Hans van Putten | Apr 16, 2018 | Just-Saying, Peter Dragone Blog
I am typing this blog on a desktop computer using my trusty NMB Technologies HI TEK keyboard. As I write, its loud clicking provides a soothing background buzz, helping me forget the fact that my opposable thumbs did indeed oppose me earlier today while texting from...
by Hans van Putten | Feb 21, 2018 | Just-Saying
We live in a branded world. At every turn, it seems, we are encouraged to build our personal brands. Social media is awash with the disciples of this new religion. As a relative outsider looking in, I prefer to leave such matters to the Twitter habitués and...
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