Buyer and Seller Power Dynamics in Acquisitions
You can find a lot of discussions about the selling process, but you don’t find a lot of conversation of power dynamics. Background: In 2017 I sold my company to GoDaddy. I was an executive at GoDaddy for three years post-acquisition where I spent time with CorpDev talking to, and buying companies, and have spent…
Read MoreWith Enough Brute Force You Can Accomplish Anything
A colleague used to say: Tony, you are exactly what they mean when they say “with enough brute force you can accomplish anything.” – A colleague I would laugh, but inside it would hurt. I remember thinking how it simplified, diminished, the work I was doing. It was always in the context of my ability…
Read MoreScreaming Into the Void
When I look across different online mediums I find myself disconnected from the world, unable to find genuine connection with the conversations being had. How peculiar an experience in a world that is supposed to be so connected. I thought all the platforms were going to connect us? Everyone seems to be an expert, and…
Read MoreGit: Message ‘src refspec master does not match any’ when pushing commits in Git
On a recent project, I created a new Git repo and wanted to push my content to the repo from the staging server. You can find a very simple guide on how to do that here. But as I was trying to push my content to the “existing” repo I was getting this error: I was…
Read MoreSQL: Delete all Rows with “foo” in the String
Let’s say you’re building something cool and you try to share this amazing thing with a friend. Then that friend decides to blow your DB up with useless entries. Because that is what friends do. In such a scenario, you might end up with something like this: select count(*) from table; +———-+ | count(*) |…
Read MoreCreating a Keystore for Android Apps on Windows
If you’re building Android apps for the Android or Amazon Playstore you will need to sign your apps with a certificate. To do this, you will need a Keystore file. There are a lot of instructions on how to do this on a Mac, but if you’re on a Windows machine it’s a labyrinth of…
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