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Friday, March 14th, 2008There’s a wing joint that dominates the city of Austin and has started its migration across Texas. Started by two former University of Texas students, Pluckers has become the name that defines Buffalo wings in the state capital.
The chain was recently featured in The Alcalde [Note that the article on Pluckers is not available online], […]
Why do all successful people have to be assholes?
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008Note: I apologize if the word “asshole” offends you, but for the purpose of this post, I am going to have to use the word quite a bit. Earmuffs please.
I got into a little debate over at On Moneymaking tonight about whether you have to be an asshole to be successful. Jon’s post there suggests […]
Book Review: Game Over: Press Start to Continue shows what Nintendo taught Microsoft
Monday, January 28th, 2008In what can only be described as the fulfillment of my winter break spiral towards greater levels of nerd-dom, I spent my free time reading Game Over: Press Start to Continue: The Maturing of Mario by David Sheff with some new chapters contributed by Andy Eddy.
Sheff and Eddy’s narrative works both as a fan service […]
Threadless.com uses a retail location to build brand love
Wednesday, December 12th, 2007If you are not familiar with Threadless.com, they make shirts. Unlike most companies who choose their designs based upon focus testing and select influential parties, Threadless uses the crowd.
Similar to SnorgTees.com, Threadless accepts user-submitted designs. They use a public rating system to determine what shirts to print; therefore, they let the crowd run their product […]
SnorgTees shows you don’t have to be incredibly tech-savvy, uniquely talented to run with a good idea, find a great, successful business
Monday, November 12th, 2007If you have never heard of One Week Job, the blog/video series follows Sean Aiken as he travels from job to job in search of his passion. The ultimate goal of the project is to work 52 jobs in 52 weeks and possibly find his dream job.
In week 30, he visited SnorgTees.
SnorgTees is a […]
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