Mike On The Move

“Mike on the Move” has moved to Tumblr

Mike O'Horo — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 21:24:09 +0000

Since starting RainmakerVT in February, this blog has been the neglected child, with no recent posts. For those still interested, I’ve moved it to a new blogging platform, Tumblr, and will begin posting new observations, rants, etc. So, go to mikeonthemove.tumblr.com and sign up for the RSS feed and continue the journey with me. Mike [...]

Announcing the birth of RainmakerVT

Mike O'Horo — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:56:50 +0000

Mike O’Horo and Craig Levinson are proud to announce that after a very smooth and painless gestation and delivery, their biz-child, RainmakerVT, arrived Friday, March 5 at 3:30pm PST. They announced no details, e.g., size/weight, etc., but assure everyone that parents and baby are all doing fine. Here’s the first picture: Unsurprising from such an [...]

Reinvigorated, renewed and ready to rock again

Mike O'Horo — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:20:16 +0000

We’ve come full circle, i.e., back to the law biz, although in a completely different way. Last June I had grown terminally stale with the lawyer training business, so I fired myself and set out to identify a new challenge/opportunity. My strategy was to insert myself into a vibrant idea stream and see which ones [...]

A fun, “green” business for me to focus on

Mike O'Horo — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 02:24:41 +0000

I’ve been dark on this blog since mid-September, which is kind of embarrassing, but it’s been for the best. Of necessity, my investigation of opportunities in industries transforming as a result of the seismic macro-economic shift is on hold for the rest of the year. I have a real live project to absorb my energies, [...]

Allow others to build their success around your own success

Mike O'Horo — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 23:24:33 +0000

Among the more stimulating blogs occupying my RSS reader is Kevin Kelly‘s KK Lifestream. One specific post a couple of weeks ago — Maximize the opportunities of others — really got me thinking about how I might solve the “reinventing Mike” challenge, particularly this (abridged) aspect: In every aspect of your business (and personal life) [...]

The most radical and refreshing approach I’ve seen to clean energy independence

Mike O'Horo — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:35:33 +0000

Every day, the argument over how best to power the U.S. economy while minimizing environmental damage, economic burden and dependence on hostile energy sources rages in the blogosphere and specialized media. All bear at least some evidence of the authors’ interest in protecting one sacred cow or another. Some tout the political advantage of making [...]

An eerie parallel for my former clients and colleagues

Mike O'Horo — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 07:33:12 +0000

Catching up on some neglected categories in my RSS reader last night I came across this August 17 Techdirt post by Michael Masnick. It’s written about the newspaper industry, but it immediately brought to mind widespread behaviors and attitudes I observed in my former domain, law firms. (I suspect it would be equally applicable to [...]

Electric vehicles much closer than widely perceived

Mike O'Horo — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 21:28:59 +0000

I’ve only been following the EV space for a couple of months, but sporadic announcements had already given me a sense that, despite the growing economic and political significance of environmental issues, with the exception of the much-heralded press darling, Tesla, the popular press was largely ignoring the state of progress on this important front. [...]

The copyright/patent law conundrum in the Internet economy

Mike O'Horo — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:42:46 +0000

For some time now (much longer than I’ve been following the space, I’m sure), the tech blogosphere has been vibrating with a really robust debate about the proper role of intellectual property protection in the age of “infinite goods” on the Internet. At the risk of gross oversimplification (and irritating the hell out of the [...]

“Demand Triggers” prove elusive in emerging businesses — at least for me

Mike O'Horo — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 18:18:13 +0000

Those who have been following this blog since I fired myself from the lawyer training biz to seek out my next big thing may recall that my expectation was that, by following the conversations in a handful of industries undergoing transformational change, I would spot a high-impact problem I could solve (in the parlance of [...]