Archive for May, 2007
The One Person Startup: Part 2 – Self Reliance
It seems that all of this talk of needing team members to start a company is more about what others were afraid to do, or could not do, than the actual facts about starting a company and this is nothing new. Emerson talked about this in much detail with his Essay Self-Reliance. So why is [...]
The One Person Startup: Part 1 – The Single Founder Myth
I have been reading article after article about the great team, and the mistakes that kill startups, and the one that always seems to be mentioned is the "Single Founder", one article in particular "The 18 Mistakes That Kill Startups", mentions this as #1. The reason the article list are: No "successful" startups were founded [...]
StartUp 2.0
I have been reviewing TechCrunch.Com and KillerStartUps.Com for a few days now and I am noticing one thing about the startups out there: there's a lot of mediocrity. The business models are about a few things: 1) Getting Users and Selling Ads. The first idea is social networking, popularized by MySpace, Facebook, and Digg, is [...]
Fence Update….
The fence turned out really nice. We are getting a comment or two a day from the neighbors about how nice it looks. The contractor that did our fence is Jesse Morrison from Morrison Fence.
What web 2.0 means to me.
Web 2.0 has a few meanings: 2nd generation web, business model by advertising, AJAX. Or you can view the WIKIPEDIA definition, but to me it represents more of a shifting of the business paradyme. What does that mean? Well I use to think that Google was in the Internet business, but after a few discussions [...]
Launching a Web Site by Wil Schroter
Notes from a Tech Columbus, TechTalk. This talk was rather cool and of all the events this one taught me the most. I admit I had a high degree of cynicism going in but I was quite surprised… First, I was the only one with a laptop at the conference, I was real-time blogging, but [...]
All Robot Activity Moved
I have moved all my robot information to scottsbots.com. For information related to the Columbus Robotics Society you can check that out at columbusrobotics.org.
Nice Trip to Raleigh, NC
We took a trip down to North Carolina over the week-end to visit some family and eat some crawfish. I must say the trip was great and it was our first time meeting the Boshoff's and all the family, we should have gotten down that way sooner. Wednesday we drove down and stayed the night [...]