I’ve been going to SXSWi for the past three years and it is definitely one of the best conferences I go to every year and was probably one of the biggest influences on me as far as seeing the potential of the Web and this whole social media thing and I’ve always wondered if I [...]

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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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Alright, so in the spirit of transparency I’m going to share something with you all that I have been doing for a few years now that could very well get my man-card suspended for good for mentioning but I believe I have justification for my actions (if only partially).
I watch an absurd amount of reality [...]

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I can go without email and be okay.
Limited myself to 5 minutes a day and it worked beautifully. I was able to ‘catch up’ after the week in about an hour. I’m going to start having a set length of email time 2-3 times each day and see if it helps my productivity.
I suck [...]

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The past month of my life has been a pretty amazing one. I have spoken to and connected with some of the most amazing people in and out of the financial space. A lot of these people have some pretty impressive resumes and I’m humbled that they would even give me five minutes [...]

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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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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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