Free Business Idea – Right Wing Vitamins and Organic Foods
The Left Wing Temperament – Idealizes: caring, tolerance and balance Prone To: Hugging The Right Wing Temperament – Idealizes: Cleanliness, organization and order Prone To: Personal space There are many political overtones and exceptions to the above sweeping characterizations, but in terms of temperament they are true (just trust me on that). You’ve probably noticed […]
The 3 customer targets for Stronico
Someone recently asked me who would actually use this service and I had no specific answer for them. Lots of vague answers, but nothing specific. I decided to fix that problem. Since declaring targets defines them; these are the top three Stronico customer targets Primary Market – The near Aspberger entrepreneur – I call this […]
Call for Beta Testers
Stronico Contact Management has now reached the point of private beta! If you would like to be a beta tester please contact steve@stronico.com for more information. Your input will be used to shape the final product, and all beta testers will receive TWO FULL YEARS of free Stronico. We only have a limited number of […]
Free Idea #2 – Homemaker Incorporated
As my domestic status has changed over the past year, this idea no longer would applies to me, but here is another business idea I would have paid for. Home Maker Inc – A service that would mimic many of the offerings of the good homemaker, solely in the care and maintenance of the home […]
Startup Atlanta – March 2010 Edition
Last Wednesday I attended the StartUp Atlanta March event (on the web at StartUpAtlanta.org, @StartupAtlanta on Twitter) where about 60 or so members of the Startup community mixed, mingled, and listened to 5 presentations by new Startups in Atlanta. The community was quite nice (I saw a number of familiar faces, and met some new […]
Sorry for the light updating
I’ve been bogged down with client work, and then StartupAtlanta took a chunk out of the week too. Look for the writeup of that soon. This post originally appeared on the Stronico blog – with the absorption of Stronico into Digital Tool Factory this post has been moved to the Digital Tool Factory blog
Jason Fried and I have common ideas
I just watched an interview with Jason Fried of 37 Signals and he and I share the notion (first said by me in 2001) that people in prison are the most effectively creative people in the world (in their escape attempts), and that constraints are good for creativity. He says that bootstrapping forces companies to […]
Thoughts on predictable software scheduling
While pondering installing Visual Studio 2010, as well as thinking how all software is moving to a subscription basis, I had the thought – why not do two predictable releases a year? The first release, say in January, would be whatever new features were in place by that date. The second release, say in July, […]
It’s sad when hold music makes you happy
After being on hold for about 10 minutes now, I can honestly say that Godaddy.com has the best tech support hold music I’ve ever heard. It seems to be remakes of 1930’s hot jazz numbers. I have found the tech support to be clear and usually worth the wait. This post originally appeared on […]
General updates in February 2010
Nearly a week has gone by without any sort of posting. Rest assured that work is still being done – it’s just tedious and not very remarkable. Our second e-blast went out without incident. On a somewhat related note, might I recommend Brain Rules by John Medina – it is a wonderful book about the […]