tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post1594523744721327290..comments2023-10-19T05:40:59.162-04:00Comments on Sippican Cottage: The Angel Investors Have HornsSippicanCottagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14940797380578921776noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-44375580516895931002009-11-09T19:27:03.156-05:002009-11-09T19:27:03.156-05:00Hi DBC- Thanks for reading and commenting.
I use ...Hi DBC- Thanks for reading and commenting.<br /><br />I use "hipster" as a term describing a demographic that moves with the times. People intensely interested in what's cool at any given time. <br /><br />Oops. Now I've introduced the term "cool" into it, too. <br /><br />I believe the term with a hipster nowadays is "deck."SippicanCottagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14940797380578921776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-6838585342734333472009-11-09T17:56:54.973-05:002009-11-09T17:56:54.973-05:00Never sure about the exact connotations to put on ...Never sure about the exact connotations to put on "hipster" (see above in "Angel Investors").At least since hearing Harry "the Hipster" Gibson sing "Who put the <br />Benzedrine in Mrs Murphy's Ovaltine".This geezer was performing before Norman Mailer drafted hipster into his literary battalions.And Gibson can claim to have invented rock'n'roll.DBC Reedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17891849727783879145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-46927623509586850312009-11-06T19:19:20.288-05:002009-11-06T19:19:20.288-05:00The key is to keep an eagle eye on spending.The key is to keep an eagle eye on spending.ricpichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01321511130788764861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-86796420169249973412009-11-04T23:50:46.553-05:002009-11-04T23:50:46.553-05:00Contemporary small business owners could well end ...Contemporary small business owners could well end up being remembered in a future "Schindler's List" production.<br /><br />You cannot kill the human spirit by bribes if the human in question refuses to be bought and instead chooses to fight chooses to seek his own path to happiness. His terms.<br /><br />You sure can kill the human, though. <br /><br />Maybe that's why government has kept AMTRAK around all these decades. Business might boom again, eh?<br /><br />I hope it doesn't come to that.TmjUtahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07479506083401061662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-18353408320718560722009-11-04T17:57:42.178-05:002009-11-04T17:57:42.178-05:00Very good post. I live in a community where most ...Very good post. I live in a community where most everyone who considers themself successful and who is fawned upon has got rich on Wall St. I have more respect for the work by my friends and neighbors who make things and start and grow local businesses. <br /><br />My dad started his own company in his mid-forties and lived like a student for twenty years growing it, and making payroll, so I know how hard this can be, but also how rewarding. He died only moderately successful financially, but happy to have produced a good product, employed and trained good people, and helped to develop the technology in his business, and done something to help feed people in the Third World. <br /><br />There are plenty of good and honest people at my church who earn a living in financial services, but I don't trust their products or their investment schemes, even if the people themselves seem decent. Nuff said.Retrieverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09036341287285545932noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-5683205833537201182009-11-04T11:50:22.117-05:002009-11-04T11:50:22.117-05:00Unfortunately, you left out the hippest way to be ...Unfortunately, you left out the hippest way to be rich of all - having the foresight to choose the right parents.Rob De Wittnoreply@blogger.com