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Considering a Mac OS X Server Upgrade
Years ago, we launched our first business on a couple of cheap, out-of-the-box Dell Computers with Microsoft XP and Dreamweaver. Shortly thereafter, we signed a lease with Apple Financial and purchased nearly $30,000 worth of computer equipment and software for our new offices, followed by regular rounds of equipment additions and new systems being shipped into headquarters. The e-commerce sites, …
Storyville Coffee Company
Every year, I read tens of thousands of pages of financial reports, SEC filings, business proposals, expansion requests, and everything else you can imagine relating to our businesses and my job as the chief capital allocator (which is, after all, the primary job of the CEO). It takes a lot to raise my eyebrows and get me excited about a …