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…
Chapel Hill Startup Weekend: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly…
It’s done. I’ve had some sleep. Now it’s time for a review… For those of you that weren’t following the weekend, we voted to build Workperch, a service that matches people or groups that need temporary space with businesses that…
The cathartic effect of swearing…
I don’t swear that much, but like many Brits, I’m genetically pre-disposed to do it creatively. However, my daughter is at the age where everything is recorded and repeated… Recent examples include: "Daddy, you’re making me cross", "That smells NAAAASTY"…