GENERAL INTEREST

Originally Posted 12/22/05 

The title is reminiscent of a sign that a friend of mine had posted behind the counter of his print shop in the early nineties. What made me remember this sign was my experiences over the past few months was my experiences over the past few months dealing with contractors and buying appliances […]

Originally Posted 12/14/05 

 Part I

“All I’ve got is a red guitar . . . three chords and the truth” U2’s Bono reflects in their cover of Bob Dylan’s “All Along the Watchtower”. If you take a look a most popular music these days, you might be surprised by how many songs consist of basically three chords […]

Oroganlly Posted 12/14/05 

Before we delve into my experiences starting and running the Denver Bicycle Design Center, Inc., it is useful to understand my prior work history and experience. I graduated from the University of Illinois in December of 1986 with a BS in Metallurgical Engineering. In my last year and a half of school I […]

Originally Posted 11/16/05 

A month or so ago I mentioned in the future I would be writing about various books I have read concerning inventing, starting a business and/or patents. While I have finished my first book since then and here is the review:

The book: Turn Your Idea or Invention into Millions by Don Kracke

To […]

Originally Posted on 11/10/05 

First off, this article is not what you think it is. In fact, it has absolutely nothing to do with intellectual property, patents or business law. Rather, this is less of an article and more of a story: a funny story that I can laugh about now but while it was happening, […]

Originally Posted 11/2/05 

INTRODUCTION

Prior to becoming an attorney in what now seems like a previous life I was an entrepreneur. After leaving my first engineering job out of college, I started the Denver Bicycle Design Center, Inc., which designed, manufactured and produced high end mountain bicycle components. These products, namely a ultralight aluminum/graphite/epoxy handlebar and stem, […]

Originally Posted on 10/21/05 

Ok, not really but it did slow things down to a snails pace on Monday and Tuesday! I am talking about virtumonde spyware. You will know you have if every once and while while surfing a new internet explorer window opens up with an advertisement. Most often the ad is for a […]

Originally Posted on 10/6/05 

On August 17, 2005 I published an article that was intended to demonstrate the difficulty in determining whether or not a new product or invention would be successful in the marketplace. I made the point that even large companies can’t always predict whether a product will be a success. Often, excess inventory […]