From the monthly archives:

April 2008

TechQuest from the Metroplex Technology Business Council

April 30, 2008

I’ve been looking forward to reporting to you on the Metroplex Technology Business Council, a new program for large tech companies in the DFW area and small businesses & entrepreneurs that has just gone live.
The program is called TechQuest, and it’s a way to match up entrepreneurs, small-med businesses, grad students & professors, and just [...]

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Blackberry Curve 8310

April 26, 2008

I’ve been an avid Blackberry user for years now. Despite some of the limitations and the fact that it doesn’t have the cool appeal of an iPhone, for the combination of business and personal use, speed, efficiency, form-factor and reliability I’ve yet to find anything to beat it. While my 7290 was getting a bit [...]

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Protecting Ideas and Intellectual Property

April 23, 2008

One of the most daunting aspects of starting any kind of business for most entrepreneurs is knowing how to protect their ideas and intellectual property. There is a tendency to be borderline paranoid with sharing even the most trivial aspects of your idea so the question becomes, “How do I find the balance between protecting [...]

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More On Woopra

April 16, 2008

After I posted my “pre” review of Woopra yesterday I found the following video on John P’s ” OneMansBlog.” It’s an audio free video which walks through the functionality of Woopra so if you already have access, watch it and learn a thing or two; if you don’t already have it, it makes a functional [...]

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Woopra Review

April 14, 2008

While taking part in the Dallas WordCamp a couple of weeks ago we were introduced to Woopra but one of the company founders John Pozadzides and given an opportunity to take part in the beta trial of the hosted, real-time website analytics program.
The first reaction to Woopra by almost everyone is WOW! Visually the application [...]

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Frameworks, Methodologies and Processes

April 10, 2008

As I was writing the posts on the Idea Lifecycle Matrix I got caught in a couple of conversations about frameworks vs methodologies vs processes reminding me that there is some confusion about the differences between all three and how they fit together.
I’ll start by telling you that despite the way these terms probably sound [...]

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TLADictionary.com

April 9, 2008

This post is a bit of a “cheat” but I wanted to let you know about a new site out there you might find useful, tlaDictionary.com.
Shameless disclaimer: This is mine, and is a random idea I had so I just threw it up there. Maybe someday I’ll think of a way for this to generate [...]

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Idea Lifecycle Pt. 7 – Sustain/Improve

April 7, 2008

As long as we own a product,idea or business, there really is no end to it for us until we choose to kill it (which is sometimes the right choice) or sell it off. Until then, we should seek to continually improve upon the product, marketing and delivery of that product though we can say [...]

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Idea Lifecycle Pt. 6 – Monetize

April 4, 2008

This may not actually be your favorite part, but it’s likely to be your favorite result! The fact is that the monetization phase is probably the most difficult and is as much an art as it is a discipline.
In this phase we get to do things like:
Determine the ideal price. It needs to be profitable [...]

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