Category: Old Posts

Free-But-Advertising-Supported Products: Why leave cash on the table when the customer is willing to spend it?

I am so very tired of seeing monetizable services given away for free with the flimsy excuse that money will be made through advertising.  Once you set a price for a product, it is very hard to raise it.  Set…

What kind of Hater are you???

In general, I like to think that technically savvy people are reasonably smart.  But I am always amazed at how blindly devotional many of us are. At the recent Startup Weekend, the dev team’s choice was Ruby on Rails.  The…

What can you do?

In previous posts I’ve talked about about what I’d like to see happen here.  I strongly believe that RTP is a great area with a ton of potential  The recent Startup Weekend in Chapel Hill confirmed my opinions about the…

A company is like a…

This one’s been brewing for a while, and Startup Weekend was a catalyst to get it written.  I am generally not a fan of carefully constructed analogies that are a bit of a stretch, but I’ll make an exception this…