Mark Nyman, President of FOODGUYS. Number 81 on the Portland Business Journal's List of Fastest Growing Companies. (With Tim Haskins, Partner of COPIOUS, Number 32 on the List, PHOTOBOMBING!) CONGRATULATIONS to two of Catalyst's clients: FOODGUYS and COPIOUS. Both companies made the Portland Business Journal's list of 100 Fastest Growing Private Companies for [...]
Imagine that you and I are going to a barbeque party at a friend’s house this afternoon. You pick me up at my house and as we drive away I turn to you and say, “I hope they have potato chips at the party!” You look away from the road for a moment, to look [...]
Two men, looking at a third one, dead, in the trunk of a car: Louis: Who's that? Ordell: That's Beaumont. Louis: Who's Beaumont? Ordell: An employee I had to let go. This scene, from Quentin Tarantino's 1997 movie, "Jackie Brown" has stayed with me, with its brutal and dark humor. Samuel L. Jackson brilliantly and [...]
This is a long post, ...and may only be interesting to people who see the power in rigorous thinking. If you're someone who likes to operate in "Just give me the answer!" you might want to skip this one! I’ve learned about business from many amazing teachers: One of the best is my Dad, Bill [...]
I was driving home from a meeting last night at about 6:30pm. The gauge showing the outside temperature kept varying between 31 and 33 degrees. (I'm hyper-sensitive when there's a threat of ice--when things freeze, the hill I live on turns into a luge-run.) The weather report, earlier, had said that the temp was going [...]
