Brian Oberkirch
Brian Oberkirch, a web entrepreneur based in Louisiana, joins Chip to talk about the high-tech startup environment outside of Silicon Valley.
Curiosity may well have killed the cat, but it feeds the entrepreneur. I like to learn more about a lot of different things. While some may become truly expert in a narrow vertical, I tend to think that I have a wide array of knowledge, but little of it at expert depth. I’m always keen…
Many entrepreneurs assume that to be successful they need to be acquired or go public in an IPO. Netscape, Google, and more recently LinkedIn teach us this, it seems. High-tech companies, then, are often built to sell. That tends to mean a focus on revenues over profits. It drives fundraising activity, as acquirers and public…
Yesterday, I tweeted that it was nice to work in a global business because that meant that I could email my international colleagues “guilt-free” and be productive while leaving my U.S. team alone. Now, I realize I’m in the minority of people who finds relief in being able to do work on the Thanksgiving holiday,…
Last night I ended up at the bar of a mass production restaurant in Broomfield, CO eating unhealthy food of marginal quality while drinking club soda with some of the saddest looking pieces of lime I have seen in a while. No, I’m not a down-on-my-luck recovering addict, just a guy who really wanted to…
Ideas are a dime a dozen. I know because I have paper and electronic file folders filled with ideas that I have come up with over the years for potential new products, services, and companies. Good ideas aren’t much more valuable. While some of the ideas on my lists seem clearly doomed, most seem to…
Mark Roberge, CEO of PawSpot, discusses his startup.