I am getting married on September 20th, my company is constantly undergoing changes, being challenged, and adapting. This is great, but at times it can be overwhelming and the pressure can really build. My fiance, Ann, is freaking out about the wedding and all the crap that goes along with throwing a party for the day of your marriage. This is by no means a pity party, I am thrilled… Continue reading

PAS had a company outing to Vegas last week. There are a few guys who work in the Nashville office who hadnt met some of the guys who work in the St. Paul office, it was a great time meeting everyone. Seeing people away from the office letting their hair down was a nice change of pace.

Dinner at Aureole in Mandalay bay:

Just wanted to give a headsup to any raketracker players, PAS affiliates, or people interested in saying hello to the PAS, YPC, and raketracker teams. We will all be in Vegas tomorrow(7/27) until July 3rd. We are all going to be there and love the chance to put faces to online names and catch up with old friends, so send us an email or leave a comment here and we… Continue reading

I act on instincts. I cant read an instruction manual to learn how to build something. I like to splay the pieces out on the floor and put them together where I think they make sense and use the instruction manual as a reference when I get stumped. This has been a fundamental foundation of who I am. My companies fundamental foundation looks like this: We develop products that… Continue reading

we have developed into a nice little company here. we started in the basement, moved out to the garage, now we are a family with a white picket fence and 2.5 children. we have two offices, my dog comes to work, and we are really the cliche start up company. i continually label us a startup even though we have been around for almost 5 years, have 9 employees, well Continue reading

i think i am a unique individual, i have terminal uniqueness. not in the way that we all have our own DNA, fingerprints, etc…, but my whole being operates quite a bit differently than most people i encounter in day to day life. in some ways i may be unique, some i may not, but since they have come up with verbiage to classify every style, emotion, feeling, thought, perception Continue reading

Ryan and I usually dont need to speak to eachother. We can go through a series of grunts and half read email exchanges to understand what one another is working on, where there are problems, and where we are headed. This works when the two individuals that started a company understand how one another works after four years of building something from scratch. It doesnt work when the business starts Continue reading

There was a recent issue at PAS. This problem was caused by many factors. It was not one or two individuals fault, but rather a symptomatic result of doing too much with too little and a dash of Murphy’s Law. We have seen these shortcomings and have increased our staff by almost 50% in the last 6 months, with several more hires on the near horizon. New people… Continue reading