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Newton’s First Law for Start-ups

Posted in October 12th, 2009
Published in Startups

http://it.spcollege.edu/cfsurveys/survey.cfm?su_id=3764

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Get Your Geek On @ Tampa BarCamp

Posted in September 23rd, 2009
Published in Tech Rant

This weekend (Sept. 26th & 27th) is Tampa’s 2nd annual BarCamp. Once again the event will be held at the College of Business building on USF’s main campus (see campus map). BarCamp is a worldwide movement with events being organized on a local level by volunteers and local businesses that want to see their tech [...]

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VC Blogs – Subscribers vs. Substance

Posted in September 15th, 2009
Published in Startups, Tech Rant

The Eric Schoenfled TechCrunch article on Top VC Blogs got a fair amount of play on Twitter last week, but the background for this post originates on Larry Cheng’s site where there is a much more comprehensive listing of 100+ VC Bloggers (ranked by number of subscribers). The posts on these blogs range from superficial insight [...]

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Mentors vs. Managers vs. Mongers

Posted in September 9th, 2009
Published in Startups, Tech Rant

I found a great post last week @ GenYstartup.com: As far as Start-ups are concerned, a Mentor is someone who has been in the industry for much longer and has been involved in a number of startups himself/herself. The duty of this person is to advice you based on their experience and also help you [...]

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Does your market buzz sound like a squeal?

Posted in February 15th, 2009

As a follow-up to my involvement in the FastTrac – TechVenture series co-hosted by St. Pete College & the STARTEC Accelerator, I am re-posting one of my all time favorites by Steve Johnson of Pragmatic Marketing “Stop Perfuming the Pig“. Every exec team or wannabe tech founder needs to read this post and ask themselves [...]

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Rent-A-Coder Repeats on Inc. 5K

Posted in November 10th, 2008
Published in Startups

Congrats to the folks over @ Rent-a-Coder for their second listing in Inc. Magazine’s Top 5000 Fastest Growing Companies. One of the biggest complaints (or excuses) I hear from would-be startup founders is the lack of access to development talent. While I am the first to discourage people from building a prototype or version 1.0 [...]

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