Bryce McDonnell

Inc Magazine is easily my favorite. I love reading about entrepreneurship and have faithfully read this magazine cover to cover for the last several years.
Well, this month I’m fortunate enough to have a small cameo in “The Goods” section on page 54 (see the crm review online). In it, I talk about the merits of [...]

I’ve had a bit of time to finally pursue some open source initiatives that I’ve had cooking in the back of my mind. I’m really excited to release this project I’ve been working on because it showcases work in both PHP and Ruby on Rails. I’ve created a plugin written in PHP that integrates into [...]

As I grow as a professional, I often find significant philosophical differences between me and other developers. In an effort to help you get to know me better, I thought I’d outline a few of those philosophies here.
There Are No HTML/CSS Programmers
Markup languages are not programming languages. They can’t do math and neither can be [...]

More information can be found at the links provided, but Microsoft is not starting the year off strong. Most media outlets led with a story about how the Zune, Microsoft’s digital music player, was hit with a glitch in how its internal clock accounts for leap year. Then, it’s industry leading web browser, Internet Explorer, [...]

Autos, banks and investment firms have all benefited this year from a plethora of legislative handouts. The firms receiving our hard-earned tax dollars have all been publicly traded and have several thousand employees. More money has been set aside and spent in the last two months for distressed banks and brokers than the Iraq war [...]

I recently read this article at FastCompany’s website about Linux: the open source, freely available operating system. While it technically competes with Windows and Mac OS X, most users have probably never heard of it. Most data center admins probably couldn’t live without it. It has a commanding lead in the enterprise hosting space and [...]

While I aspire to be a serial entrepreneur, I’m not old enough to be considered serial per-se. What is interesting is the way the mind of a serial entrepreneur is wired. Robert Scoble (via his twitter feed) pointed me to this blog entry which I thought was pretty interesting. Not just because the experiences [...]

From the Giga Om network, here’s an article describing how investors are doing fewer deals with new start up companies. It’s sad news for those companies that just need a little extra capital to make a big impact. It’s good news for those (not me) that can self fund a start up since there will [...]