Chris Knudsen on Life & Business

I’m watching this video closely. This guy might be Jeremy, or Connor, or Russ, or maybe its Blake. I can’t tell but I think its someone I know.

I’m so glad I own an HP.
Have a nice weekend!

Lately I’ve been meeting with a lot of budding entrepreneurs to talk about ideas they have or businesses they have started. I really enjoy getting together and talking with like-minded people. Just today I met with a fellow Westminster grad who has built a great little outsource programming shop. On the side, he and his developers [...]

This is something I’ve been thinking a lot about lately. Very interesting:

PEOPLE who send excessive texts and emails may have a mental illness, according to an article in a leading psychiatric journal.
As more people leave the office computer, only to log on as soon as they get home, the American Journal of Psychiatry has found [...]

I’m looking for a PPC (specifically Adwords) expert/genie/ninja to manage a large ($XX,XXX per month) online ad campaign. I’m looking for someone part time - at first - on a 1099 basis. At least two years of experience plus Adwords certified is preferred. I’m looking for someone smart who knows his or her crap and loves PPC. I’m [...]

I just got back from Governor John Huntsman’s Utah Economic Conference. It was an interesting time. I attended several sessions. The first session on successful growth strategies had some very good thoughts from Alan Hall of Grow Utah Ventures and Josh Coats of Mozy (which just sold for $80M to EMC). Alan talked about being on the [...]

Sometime I wish I didn’t know the things I know. Sometimes I wish I were just uneducated and ignorant about the things happening around me. After all…ignorance is bliss, right?
From Thomas Jefferson:
“I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue [...]

From the “WTF!” files: Tent cities spring up in LA as a result of the mortgage crisis. Notice this is a BBC report - I haven’t seen this in the national U.S. media:

Sad!

Congrats to the 2008 vSpring V100:
Rick Alden         Skullcandy              
Curt D. Allen      Agilix Labs               
Paul Allen         FamilyLink.com       
Dallin Anderson    Code Nutrition     
Jeremy Andrus      Skullcandy          
Lindsay Atwood     LTA Enterprises    
Kirt Bailey        Celio Corp         
Brad Baldwin       RMV     
Bob Barnes          Zonder      
Jeff Barson        Sendside Networks
Jay Bean           OrangeSoda         
Brian Beutler      Alianza            
Brent L Bishop      ContentWatch     
Brock Blake        FundingUniverse    
William Borghetti  Sendside Networks  
David Bradford     Linking Universe  
Dr. Jack Brittain  U of U Tech 
Stead [...]

I was just reading over some of the coverage on SXSW. Man that looked like a cool gig. I was scheduled to go last year and couldn’t make it for some reason. I really wish I would have gone.
Utah needs a defining tech conference. Sure we have Sundance, but that’s indie films. I’m talking about [...]

Jason Calacanis wrote a blog post that created a firestorm on the Web. On the important stuff he’s right on. Here are my thoughts:

“Buy Macintosh computers, save money on an IT department.” Come on, Jason - Macs break down too. Plus, I’m way more productive on a PC - so are most other people.
“Buy a [...]