Life

Our Good Friend Jimmy, may he get well soon

BRT_2909.JPG, originally uploaded by Bryan Thatcher.
It has been a sad and unfortunate couple of weeks here at Fusebox and Empressr. One of our own Jimmy has fallen very ill. Many of my friends have met him in some respect or other, he was at SXSW he was at the latest Web 2.0 in San Francisco, [...]


This is crazy

My keyboard and trackpad went south, last week, so I brought my MacBook Pro to the Apple store and it magically all worked. ok. Then this past weekend on Sunday same shit no keyboard or trackpad, plugging in external works fine… but I’m stressing, and I don’t really need the additional stress, heading to San [...]


Laura and Kassandra

Laura and Kassandra, originally uploaded by Bryan Thatcher.
Laura and Kassandra at Middle School Graduation


Gary Vaynerchuk aka @garyvee closes Tech Cocktails

Gary is his classic closing talk stresses be a R.A.T — R.eal A.uthentic T.ransparent. Stating that social media is only at the National Anthem for an 18 inning game. Embrace the RAT cause life is only going to become more and more transparent. Be passionate and work your face off. Here is my Qik of [...]


Gary Vaynerchuk vs Jim Cramer

Very cool the two finally meet and have a passionate discussion about wine on TV!


Loic Le Meur’s Ten Rules For Startup Success

Reposted from Techcrunch who reposted it from Loic’s blog about his article in the Financial Times!
These are awesome and I wish I had written them down, this is what I believe in and how I am building Empressr, Loic thanks for reading my mind, next time let me know your doing that first

Don’t [...]


We bought this cute little cottage on a lake in Montauk…

We knew it was going to be a project from the start. An old fisherman’s cottage with little record of construction date and no certificate of occupancy. We bought it kinda sight unseen (believe it or not in a bidding war that we won, then was reopened to another round, we stood fast and still [...]


Gary Vaynerchuk explains why good will trump bad

Gary speaks out about as the your personal brand moves more and more online, the transparency will allow the good to outshine the bad. Awesome video.