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Government Run as a Business: The Offsite 17 Feb 2013 | 09:10 pm
I'm a businessman; call me "TE". The search committee picked me to run the US government as a business. It's my first day on the job. Of course we're going to start with an offsite to get the strategy...
Connected 14 Jan 2013 | 10:12 pm
Taking advantage of a January thaw, a team from Vermont Gas Systems taps into their transmission pipe to connect the first NG Advantage LLC compressor station in Milton, Vermont. Deliveries by truck o...
Now What? 12 Nov 2012 | 09:26 pm
If there is to be a reinvented Republican Party or a new party which gives a home to those who have been abandoned by the extremists in both parties, what should it be? How should it describe itself? ...
What Vermont Employers Are Telling Us (about the need for natural gas beyond the pipeline) 21 May 2012 | 10:35 pm
"Every day we wait costs us $7,000!" the CEO emailed to my new company, NG Advantage. Turns out that trucking compressed natural gas (CNG) to his factory and using it to replace dirty #6 oil will redu...
Choosing Cloud Applications - The Easy Choices 16 Apr 2012 | 11:35 pm
The first question in choosing an application – in the cloud, on the desktop, or on server – is "will this choice affect our ability to serve customers?" If the answer is no - as it is with bookkeepin...
Switchboard in the Cloud 8 Apr 2012 | 05:47 am
Several decades and companies ago Solutions Inc. was on the 4th floor of Vermont National Bank building in Montpelier. We'd grown so we needed a switchboard that the receptionist (remember receptionis...
A New Business Belongs in the Cloud 1 Apr 2012 | 10:54 am
Way back in 1997, when I decided to start a new business, I went out and bought QuickBooks for bookkeeping and a server to run it on. How very twentieth century. Servers are the bane of new companies....
Back to Business 23 Mar 2012 | 03:23 am
Retirement's over; I've been working on a new business. That's why I haven't been blogging for a while; startups are all-consuming. NG Advantage LLC delivers natural gas "beyond the pipeline." Starti...
Guest Post on Controlling Medical Costs 24 Feb 2012 | 12:50 pm
My brother, Lee Evslin M.D., who is a pediatrician and who runs the Makai Ola Clinic on Kauai, wrote the email below in response to my post Medicare – The Promise That Can't Be Kept. He has a very dif...
Medicare – The Promise That Can’t Be Kept 14 Feb 2012 | 08:09 am
The promise was simple: once you reach 65, Medicare will assure that your medical costs don't become a catastrophic burden to you or children who might feel obliged to care for you. Since President Ly...
