Ade in Business

It’s true. I bought a Herman Miller Aeron chair — the symbol of dot com excess that cost more than my first car.
The $79 chair I got at Fry’s less than a year ago was already starting to fall apart, and I suspected it might have been the root of some minor back pain I’d [...]

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I read an article today (by way of the Freakonomics blog) about a coffee shop that doesn’t put prices on any of their food or drinks — payment is strictly voluntary.
I can usually form a firm opinion about a business model within a few minutes (and there are a lot of times when I’m wrong), [...]

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Mark Cuban posted a funny rant against wearing suits, and it got me thinking about one of the biggest dilemmas I’ve faced as a small business owner: what should I wear when I meet new clients?
In high school I was notorious for my lack of style. Near the end of my senior year, one [...]

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Last week I started trying to tally all my business-related travel mileage for the year, and was struggling to do it in a non-tedious fashion. The key problem was that I haven’t really kept good track. It’s quite rare that I think about it when I get in my car, and even more [...]

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I ran across the clip below the other day and found it pretty interesting. A TV station started with a perfectly working computer and disconnected a basic cable so that the computer wouldn’t boot. They then took the computer into a number of computer repair shops to see if the problem would be [...]

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