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Entrepreneurship

Lessons From a Failed Startup: The Overview

June 1, 2008

Many say you learn more from your failures than your successes. I believe this to be absolutely true in business as well as most other aspects of life. And you can also learn quite a bit from the stories of failures from others.
So, as promised when I announced that my company was shutting down, [...]

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The advantages of being a student entrepreneur

April 18, 2008

The other day I had the opportunity to have coffee with a student entrepreneur from Virginia Tech. This is the second such meeting in a month and I hope it’s a sign of future trends. Over the past two semesters, I’ve met with three entrepreneurs, all at the end stages of their undergraduate education, and [...]

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Colorado trip and the startup community in Boulder

March 31, 2008

As I mentioned in my last post, I recently spent ten days in Colorado both looking for a place to live and attending a few events. It was an exhausting trip, but we made a lot of progress on all fronts. Unfortunately, I was sick immediately following my return and have been playing catch up [...]

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Closing EvolvePoint and FeedCraft

February 22, 2008

Last month I announced to all our FeedCraft customers that EvolvePoint would be shutting down the service. I’ll be writing more about why I think the product did not become as successful as planned; but regardless of the reasons, the economic realities made the decision inevitable.
I founded EvolvePoint in 2004 initially performing management and IT [...]

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Pricing web applications and services

October 3, 2007

One of the toughest marketing issues for any business, let alone a company providing web services, is pricing. I recently found a link on Brian Oberkirch’s blog to On Pricing, a site describing itself as “an ongoing discussion of web app pricing strategies.”

Using Tumblr, a popular tumblelog service (I use Tumblr as well here), On [...]

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Entrepreneur Resource List

January 26, 2007

Andy Forbes has compiled (and regularly updates) a great list of entrepreneur resources (PDF). The list is geared towards the Washington DC region, but there is a wealth of information here that goes beyond the area. The list has been generated with input from the community, specifically from the Netpreneur mailing list (another great resource). Disclaimer: EvolvePoint is listed.

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Project Time Tracking Tools

October 4, 2006

Om Malik has a post on project time tracking over at the Web Worker Daily blog. His post is only a question to the readers regarding what they use for time tracking their various projects, but the comments are filled with great suggestions including:
Web:

FreshBooks (http://www.freshbooks.com/)
Basecamp (http://www.basecamphq.com/)
Tick (http://www.tickspot.com)
SlimTimer (http://www.slimtimer.com) [...]

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Web Workers Unite!

September 8, 2006

Om Malik has ventured off and started his own media empire. I’ve enjoyed Om’s writing for quite some time, so it was a pleasant surprise to see him starting a blog focused on the web workers of the world called Web Worker Daily.
TechCrunch had a post on the launch a couple days ago and I’ve [...]

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Virginia Business Incubation Association

March 22, 2006

I’ll be speaking at the Virginia Business Incubation Association (VBIA) 2006 Conference this Monday with Pat Matthews of Webmail.us on “Using the New Internet More Effectively.” I’ll try and post slides after the conference. I was also surprised to learn there are 32 incubators in the state of Virginia.

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Entrepreneurial proverbs

March 8, 2006

There’s a nice post over at O’Reilly Radar by Marc Hedlund on entrepreneurial proverbs. Marc gives advice on entrepreneurship for the engineers and geeks. Regardless of your background, these are some of the best and most concise points I’ve read. He breaks down the advice into a few categories: starting, the idea, people, product, and [...]

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