Big Red Car here on what is going to be a nice day in the ATX — but, then, all days in the ATX are nice, no?
So what are you doing, entrepreneur, building a startup or a small business? Is there a difference?
Let’s chat about that.
Big Red Car here licking my wounds at the defeat of my beloved Tarheels.
Jay Wright, coach of Villanova, apparently had not read the script wherein the Tarheels were to be anointed the National Champions. Instead, Villanova, the Villanova Wildcats, took the championship in what was a brilliantly planned and executed gameplan.
All hail Villanova!
Big Red Car here on a day that will turn out to be a lovely one, indeed. We are going to be talking IPOs, y’all.
So, recently there has been a bunch of talk about the dearth of tech IPOs in the most recent quarter. Zero, y’all!
The big question is why? Why no IPOs?
Let the Big Red Car carsplain it to y’all.
Big Red Car here revealing himself as the most ardent Tarheels fan in the state of Texas. Yes!
Tonight the Heels play Villanova for the national championship in Houston. The Boss and the Big Red Car will NOT be there because the game is more easily followed on a big, flat screen television like the one in The Boss’s gameroom.
The Boss will be rooting for the Heels because he always roots for the Heels except he also roots for the Longhorns when they used to have a football team but that’s a story for another day.
Big Red Car here in the ATX on a glorious day which should crack 80F, ahhh, on Earth as it is in Texas, y’all.
So, the Big Red Car is freestyling today with a serious thought — it’s time to revive dueling as a means of alternative dispute resolution.
There it is. Look at it. Touch it. Smell it. Taste it. Do it.
The Big Red Car is tired of everyone yelling at each other.
Ted Cruz objects to Donald Trump talking smack about his Heidi?
Ted hitches up his pants (little pants cause he’s kind of short) and challenges big, tall Donald Trump to a duel. There it is! Continue reading
Big Red Car here in the gently moist wonder that is the ATX. On Earth as it is in Texas.
This is an odd year because of the impending Presidential election made all the weirder by the odd bunch of candidates that have been assembled and weeded through. One must say that the Republicans get high marks for the size of their field and the high energy (except, apparently, for Jeb Bush) of its robust, rodeo like selection process. “Rodeo like” meaning that not too many have been able to sit that bull and get the eight second whistle.
The future of the US, in this interesting time, is in the hands of a 94-year old white socialist, a 70-year old white liar, a 69-year old white bombastic businessman, and another woefully unprepared low mileage white Senator whose real name is Rafael. He looks like a Rafael, doesn’t he?
I think of them as Dopey, Sleazy, Braggy, and Creepy.
Of course, I am poorly educated, ill-informed, and a sinner. That’s me. Continue reading
Big Red Car here on a bright, sunny day which celebrates the Carolina Tarheels path to the championship in the NCAA Basketball Tournament — known as March Madness to y’all. [Is this a great time to be alive, or what?]
If God is not a Tarheel, why is the sky Carolina Blue?
Hook ’em, Heels!
So, there is much to be learned about the world of business by watching the NCAA Tournament.
The Heels, with an unbelievable tradition of success, are a team which is stuffed with talent, well coached, exquisitely game planned, and capable of almost flawless execution. There are other teams just like them but there are not that many.
So, Big Red Car, what can we learn from the Tarheels that is applicable to business?
It is cloudy in the ATX and the Big Red Car does not like it.
Some years ago, before oil went to where it is, there was much pocket protector discussion about the efficacy of solar power — freeeeeeeeeeeeeeee energy, whee!
Lots of money got diverted from the real world to big projects. One of the biggest was in California.
It was a massive project in the Mojave Desert by Ivanpah (the company who built it) which was funded by a $1,600,000,000, that’s $1.6 BILLION dollars, loan guaranty from the Obama administration. Look at this baby, wow!
Small point — that’s YOUR money and YOUR government picking winners in the free market. Some find fault with such a thing.
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