Mike Seidle ...notes from the road

Lately, I've been a little obsessed with Twitter. Here are a couple of things I've learned:

Ok, so you are driving along and it starts raining money.  Apparently the thing to do, if you want to stay out of the way of every law enforcement agency from the local police to the DEA is to help them pick up the money, that is unless you want some new legal headaches.  Take this situation in San Deigo where suspects tossed thousands of dollars of drug money out the window:

News 8:: KFMB Stations, San Diego, California-DEA: Return Money Thrown During Freeway Chase, Or Else

Ever wonder why most startups fail?  They usually meet up with one of the four horsemen:

1. Overestimation of demand. Turns out no one wanted you whiz-bang change the world internet-connected superconducting toilet paper holder.

2. Inadequate cashflow or availability of bridge funding. Either didn't have enough or couldn't keep it when you got it. Oh, and overestimating demand compounds this.
   

Recently I was asked on LinkedIn how upper management demotivates employees and why companies do things that appear to demotivate employees.  Every business owner or CEO I know doesn't like doing things that suck to their employees.  Problem is that it's easy to be a good guy when you are small and growing.  Reality gets in the way the bigger you get because it's hard to get lots of great people.  Turns out though, the real problem isn't that managers are mean, nasty and wa

If you have not yet taken a few moments to try out Linux, it's time. Things have changed dramatically for the better and for most users Linux has more that caught up with Windows - it's passed it up like it's standing still. Here are a few reasons you should try Linux out:

• LiveCDs let you test without messing up your Windows files.

An interesting thing happened during this year's Super Bowl: sexy ads didn't work so well. USA Today published it's Ad Meter Results, and the racier the commercial, the sexier the ad, the less the audience liked it. In fact, not one of the top 10 ads was sexy and most of the bottom 10 were. On the flip side, humor is in with most of the top ten Super Bowl ads being very funny.

Takeaways

I manage a couple of big LinkedIn Groups. Here are a couple of things I see people who consistently get value out of the groups do:

I've been playing around with mapping tools. Here is one of the more interesting ones:

I always wondered where all my twitter friends are located:

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