The stars aligned, it was a ‘God thing’, or maybe I just got damn lucky but no matter what way you call it, I have rock stars as a development team. Mark, Dave, and Lisa each work their tails off for our company and each bring their own unique perspectives to make Banktastic and this [...]

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I’ve mentioned in a couple of conversations with friends that I feel like I have just thrown a rock in a pond and I’m waiting to see what kind of splash it’s going to make when hitting the water.
You see the rock there? That rock symbolizes something exciting and scary for me. That rock [...]

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It’s last night at about 9:30p and I pull up Apple’s website to see what the availability would be for my Apple store at Willow Bend mall to have an iPhone 3G tomorrow. The website says it would be available in my flavor (white, 16GB) tomorrow so I began wondering what time I had [...]

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I couldn’t help myself.
I’m sure there are going to be another thousand reviews on the software but the beauty of the web is that people are also interested in my take. So I did three parts.
1) From a Apple fanboy perspective
2) From a financial services perspective
3) From a private ‘internal only’ to my guys at [...]

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Sliderocket is a service that I recently learned about through the FastcompanyTV stuff Robert Scoble is doing. He interviewed the founder of Sliderocket recently and I instantly was intrigued by the product. Since speaking is something I’ve been doing quite a bit of lately, having something that is entirely browser based and so [...]

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As my two-year Kate would say after a meal, “All done.” The 1st BarCampBank in Dallas is officially done. Pictures here. Videos coming soon.
It seemed like a whirlwind weekend but I’m thinking that’s the status quo for these things. We ended up having 29 people show up to the event and the [...]

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I don’t golf.

I don’t golf because I know how I am with other things I love. 100%. Full bore. Entrenched. And I just fear the money and time drain that golf could add to my life. However, I love a good competition and this past Sunday and Monday I watched the U.S. Open [...]

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