Do you have lots of ideas rattling around in your head? Do you mostly dismiss them? Or do you pick one and dwell on it for a while? This is a subject we will come back to again in future posts. But today, I just want to provide a few resources that you can use… [Read more…]
January 4, 2012
Pipes and Filters are a familiar pattern for people managing data. Its use has been popularized by Yahoo Pipes. I always wanted to get a programmable version of pipes and filters and felt that a mini language would help a lot. Guess what? I found two packages for creating piples and filters today through my… [Read more…]
November 2, 2011
I mostly deal with startups and small and medium enterprises. No matter who you are, you can always use some help in marketing. So what are some of the marketing tools and services out there that are either free or inexpensive? Here are a few I can think of: 1. Website Grader by Hubspot It… [Read more…]
October 25, 2011
In this article Gilmore, Shipwire’s VP for marketing and business development, provides useful tips for partner development. At the end he touches upon the payoff of blogging: “We want to be a thought leader,” Gilmore says. “We want to be a visionary. We want to get our ideas out there.”It’s also a very easy way… [Read more…]
October 21, 2011
A quote from Steve Jobs (source: Beahm, George (2011-10-19). I, Steve: Steve Jobs in His Own Words) We make tools for people. Tools to create, tools to communicate. The age we’re living in, these tools surprise you.… That’s why I love what we do. Because we make these tools, and we’re constantly surprised with what… [Read more…]
September 17, 2011
Tangibility gets on the same page. Until a thing becomes tangible, multiple people can have radically divergent interpretations of the same conversation, ideas, and experiences. Tangibility brings people from all disciplines and backgrounds together around the same object, drawing, animation, or whatnot, and highlights where your visions converge and diverge. That is why wireframes, prototypes,… [Read more…]
June 8, 2011
Having used Twitter for a while, I am slowly reducing the amount of time I spend on Twitter clients. I feel some times that I am missing out on good stuff. I started thinking about an ideal Twitter client for my needs. Here is what I came up with. Some of it is being done… [Read more…]
April 3, 2011
Links on Micropreneurship (courtesy Micropreneur Academy) Micropreneur Manifesto Start Small, Stay Small Lessons Learned by a Solo Entrepreneur www.micropreneur.com Links for Niche Research Free Niche Market Finder Google Insights for Search
November 22, 2010
At TiEcon, we have a Pitch2VC session. We have over a dozen VCs to whom entrepreneurs can pitch. So if you are an entrepreneur to pitch to vc, how would you go about looking at them? What if a VC had to pitch to you? I took the easy way out and did a small… [Read more…]
October 19, 2010
I use Twitter more than anything else nowadays. More than any other social media – facebook, linkedin, Google Reader, Wikis, Social bookmarks or even podcasts. I use all these, but the links actually seem to generate from the tweets I read. Twitter is my quick environmental scanner. Twitter stream brings me nuggets of news, opinions,… [Read more…]
March 1, 2012
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