Dylan Hunter

Well, thanks to our friends at Google, a whole slew of the postings that I used to do on Usenet, (predominantly before getting married - the wife’s not too crazy about me spending personal time on the computer anymore! ) are still out there, (including 4 ancient ones from ‘92, when I was a senior @ Lafayette, and well before The Web - with an email addy of HD22%LAFAYACS.bitnet@LAFIBM.LAFAYETTE.EDU - how’s that for a mouthful - too bad they didn’t have anything from further back, but hey).

As part of the project I mentioned below to create a data store of insights / reusable info for myself and others, (as well as since way too few folks even know what Usenet is! ) I’m bringing them up on the website in an area I’ve decided to name, (for now, at least) “The Stepstool,” (Stepstool - “leg up” - get it? alliteration, repetitive letters, strong tie-in to pre-conceived ideas, even if slightly pushing the character limit, etc., etc. - hey, all I have to do is make the background red to elicit excitement, and I’ve got a winner branding campaign! - hey, if you can’t laugh at yourself, what’s the point! ).

This first set is predominantly focused on Excel and Business Modeling, as I used to spend a good bit of time trying to help folks out on comp.apps.spreadsheets, (and a few others) as I’m both a _huge_ believer in the value of extremely strong modeling skills for many career directions, (especially for the Marketing / Biz Dev / M&A / VC crowd) as well as the concept that the only stupid question is the one not asked. Note: it’s not pretty by any stretch yet, (not that that’s any different from any of the rest of my site! ) but as I’ve learned again and again over the years - content first, pretty later.