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Yes those first two months suck and every child is different. One thing that my wife and I did was that she would pump and go to bed at around 8/9 pm. I would stay up with the baby monitor and the baby was my responsibility till around 1am. If the baby got up I had to deal with it. I also gave our kid a bit of formula as the last bottle before I went to bed. The rumors were true, our child was fuller longer and slept longer. This gave my wife and I pretty close to a full night sleep.

One more thing that people will tell you is that you need to put your child on a schedule. Really, the child ends up making their own schedule, but you can influence the schedule. In the evenings pick a time that you want your kid to go to sleep, and don't let that kid out of his bedroom. Keep the lights dim and don't offer up any stimuli other than basic soothing. Hum a lullaby, really don't worry nobody can hear you. During the day don't let your child nap for longer than 2 hours. Wake them up, feed them and play with them. Start this two hour cycle every day at the same time, and don't let them sleep in. If they sleep in and don't consistently wake up every two hours they will never get on the day night sleep cycle.

We eventually got our child to sleep through the night. We put him down at 8pm every day consistently and he would sleep till around 6:30am. This all will take a bit of time, but wow is the whole family better. Well, until teething, my child just turned 1 and he his next tooth coming in is a molar. This is a whole other post.

One problem that we did have is pooping. That kid had the hardest time pooping. When you rock your kid to bed don't rock them like you see in the movies. Try a couple different positions. One that worked for us was holding them like a (American) football with their head on the outside of your elbow, and your arm and hand supporting their body.

All the books say to put your child on his back to sleep. Supposedly the statistics say that your child is more at risk of sids if they sleep on their stomach, but when we put our kid on his stomach there was a bit more pressure applied to his stomach and that pressure seemed to help. If your child is having a problem pooping say and I'll post more about it.

Microsoft is the king of second movers. That's what they do best. Xbox is another great example.

Hey Jason, I worked at a company called Comparison Market that later bought Insurance.com between 2002 to 2008. I might be of some help to you, and if you have any questions about pretty much anything in that industry my email is in my profile.

Thought I'd mention softsyshosting.com. I've used them for a small IIS website, dataintegrationagent.com. Site setup was easier, and quicker than godaddy.com. They were also quick to answer my questions. I found that it was pretty difficult to find a place to host IIS websites, and I really recommend softsyshosting if your planing on using anything IIS related.

A couple of years ago I was working at a company that had a pretty large sales center. Just for kicks I created a fantasy sales center app. You got to pick people from marketing who were generating leads, salespeople, and sales managers. You could only play each person 3 days out of a week. I was pretty surprised to see the positive impact it had on the company. Everyone was interested in sales. Discussions on how to increase sales numbers increased, and projects shifted from what might help the company to what would increase sales. Sometimes the sales team members would get upset about getting benched but hey make the sale and I'll put you back in. :)

This is really sad. In my limited understanding of business, I always thought that Groupon's greatest asset was it's sales team. Who else has a sales team that can hit so many small businesses across the us so fast. I was hoping that they would leverage this asset in more ways than just selling advertisement.

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If anyone still feels like inviting. I would like one. My email is in my profile.

If anyone still has an invite I'd like to try it out. Jerrytap (at) gmail.com

So all of technology including manufacturing has gotten quicker, faster, overall better, but the patent system hasn't changed. Also the entire cycle of a company is speeding up. An easy example the time companies that are listed on the s&p 500 are getting shorter. Instead of getting rid of patents can we just shorten the time that they are valid. Say 5 years.