Observations on my own Startup
Starting a company is a hard thing to do, you will make mistakes, you will have wins, and you will have your good days and your bad days. Over the last year I have been working on my startup to take it to the next level, crossing the 40,000 a year gross line might seem [...]
Amazon rolls out new Web Store for Sellers
My first and only experience with Web Store by Amazon was a disaster from my viewpoint. Where I expected tightly coupled information between my Amazon catalog and the Amazon Web Store there was none. Realistically to use the site correctly we were looking at going back and touching every single item in our 12,000 plus [...]
Amazon sees renewed pressure to collect State Sales Tax
Amazon and other online retailers like EBay might not be able to dodge the tax collection business for much longer as States try increasingly to find new areas of revenue. Over the last couple of weeks, both Colorado and California have started passing legislation in one form or another that will mean that Amazon will [...]
Startup Weekend Hits SXSW 2010
Startup Weekend and Piryx are working on the 2nd Annual Piryxtopia Charity Bash – this is your chance to donate 20 bucks and get tickets to meet up with Startup Weekend and Pyrix. This also ties into the idea of doing startup support in Haiti via We Hear Your Voice. You need to go here [...]
Startup Weekend in Haiti
This is one of the best ideas I have seen all month, taking startup weekend directly to Haiti to help and provide support for budding programmers and entrepreneurs in the earthquake stricken country. If anything will add a bit of hope to that country, startup weekend is one of our best American assets we could [...]
This is where I get to disagree with Louis Gray about leadership
It is not often that I get to disagree with Louis Gray, who is one of the best people to know for any reason. So it is surprising when he writes an article and misses bits and pieces of what makes some companies succeed brilliantly, while other companies settle, settle for anything with a prayer [...]
Welcome to the Facebook Market Place
If you have not checked out the Facebook Market Place lately – now is probably a good time to do it. Originally opened in 2007, with a few odds and sods like the acquisition of Ooodle– the Facebook Market Place of today is a cross between Craig’s List, Amazon, and Career Builder. You can literally [...]
Can regulators keep up with Cloud Computing?
We all know them almost by heart, PCI, SAS-70, HIPPA, SOX, and the ton of federal, state and business driven rules and regulations that companies and security engineers need to keep up with. In a rational and impassioned blog entry, Rational Survivability asks if regulators are keeping up with changes in the Cloud Computing environment. [...]
Google's Shot at the Waterline with China
Yesterday Google dropped the biggest corporate bombshell in recent memory with the announcement that they are reviewing their operations in China following a very sophisticated cyber attack against Google and some 20 other companies (including Rack Space) that targeted intellectual property and the Chinese dissident community. This has implications that go far beyond the explosion [...]
Twitter Marketing Hell: New Site by Steven Hodson
Steven Hodson has to be one of my favorite people to read online, and over the holidays he put together a “Wall of Shame” for bad twitter marketers. I hope he lets me write for him on this one, as I have plenty of good examples, not just from my Techwag Twitter, but from my [...]
AT and T starts blaming customers for downloading too much
Usually the first rule of business is that the customer is right always. Well maybe not so much according to AT&T, especially when it comes to the Iphone and data “hogs”. While unlimited plans usually mean unlimited, it looks like unlimited is soon going to mean caps, and extra charges for well, using your unlimited [...]
Beyond the end of the Crunchpad
Many people with much dismay were surprised to see an entry from Michael Arrington about the end of the Crunchpad. With the aftermath of this, the real question is who is ever going to do business with Fusion Garage in the future? Shareholders aside deciding to do something against the desire/wish/ability of a partner when [...]
Hiring for Social Media
If you have not been reading Amber Naslund lately, you are missing a great deal of information on how to hire for social media. Amber goes through many different processes that businesses must look at to find the right person for any social media process that a company will attempt. As social media moves beyond [...]
Causes Leaves MySpace for FaceBook
Causes is a social networking donation platform that uses MySpace so that people can raise money for causes or issues that they believe in. Generally these kinds of activities help provide a community around issues like Breast Cancer, or stop smoking, or other issues that are part of our daily life. Causes is an excellent [...]
Our Programmers are not like Your Programmers
With apologies to Intel for usurping and corrupting their commercial tag line, in a classic “our rock stars are not like your rock stars” move, Stack Overflow (one of the best programming information web sites out there lately) has opened up a job board with a twist, employers will browse and beg you to work [...]
