Archive for the ‘Startup Technology’ Category

Startup built from Equity – Think twice.

Friday, March 5, 2010 23:28 Comments Off on Startup built from Equity – Think twice.

  Over the past year I have come across several startups that tried to outsource or have a small team build their product without proper requirements and either did not get a finished product or got something completely different.  Now cash strapped, they wanted to build the product as cheap as possible.  Cheap meaning mostly […]

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One compromise at a time from proof of concept to prototype to production

Thursday, February 11, 2010 9:53 Comments Off on One compromise at a time from proof of concept to prototype to production

I constantly run across entrepreneurs that have some good and some great ideas.  These concepts are vetted at a high level or have full detail specs. The entrepreneur has an in house or outsourced team building or ready to build the product.  They are looking at a high cost and lengthy implementation time line to […]

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Job sites using Innovation but fight issues

Thursday, May 28, 2009 9:47 Comments Off on Job sites using Innovation but fight issues

Launching a new job site in this economy could be deemed as not profitable.  Two new job sites aren’t looking for profit (as of yet) but using innovation and technology.  Splits.org and Hash#Jobs are two such sites.  These are experimental job sites that leverage data aggregation of certain tags on Twitter.  They will battle spam […]

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Microsoft BizSpark

Wednesday, November 19, 2008 2:23 Comments Off on Microsoft BizSpark

Wow, so less than a week after my last post commented on how Google Apps was a good alternative for startups such as Dayak, Microsoft announces a new initiative called BizSpark. BizSpark is an innovative new program that unites Startups with entrepreneurial and technology resources in a global community with a common goal of supporting […]

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A peak inside Dayak’s use of Google Apps

Wednesday, October 29, 2008 10:23 Comments Off on A peak inside Dayak’s use of Google Apps

Who doesn’t know about Google Apps? Steve Ballmer recently dismissed Google Apps. I do agree with him to a certain degree that Google Apps can’t fight Microsoft alone BUT the combination of OpenOffice and Google Apps must have Steve Ballmer sweating. Its hard to deny that Google Apps and OpenOffice isn’t a compelling option. Steve […]

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