Archive for the ‘Entrepreneurship’ Category

Supplier View update

Saturday, May 17th, 2008

I've been pretty quiet the last couple of weeks due to a lot of time away from home. Now that my traveling is done for the near future expect more updates. Just because I have been gone doesn't mean anything has slowed down on Supplier View. Cody and Aaron have ...

Change is in the air

Sunday, May 11th, 2008

I am writing this post while on a flight from Salt Lake City to Houston. I'm wrapping up a week of vacation in which I got a lot of sun, ate and drank just about anything I wanted and spent a wonderful couple of days in a great Salt Lake ...

What Twitter has done for me

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

I was at a talk given by Guy Kawasaki tonight at the Houston Technology Center. He was great, it was free, and though there were no mind-altering revelations Guy did talk about things that I need to remember to do as I pursue my start-up dreams. One thing he talked ...

Launch Silicon Valley 2008

Monday, April 21st, 2008

I received an email from the Launch Silicon Valley 2008 team this evening. I'm not ready to present my projects yet as I won't be launch-ready by June 10th, but some of you out there may be. Peldi? The event has a solid set of sponsors including ...

Pretty Exciting Times

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

  After talking to several developers and designers I'm close to finalizing the group of people that I'm going to work with to get at least one of my projects off the ground. I'm hoping to bring in at least one person as a partner and then the others will ...

My Muxtape

Monday, March 31st, 2008

You may have seen a few tweets or other buzz about Muxtape. I love this website. The concept and execution is straightforward: upload 12 songs as a personal mixtape and share. That's it. The site received lots of press at launch and had some expected bandwidth problems. Today there are ...

It’s On! Color me an entrepreneur

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

It's 2:30 AM and I'm completely pumped up about the progress I've made on my latest project. I'll provide more information as this comes closer to being a reality. I've been writing use cases, refining my thoughts on the business plan, chatting with a developer I may hire and doing ...

Being a Technology Steward

Sunday, March 23rd, 2008

Nancy White Originally uploaded by So Misguided At work I've been trying to push some tools to share knowledge and build community within our organization and across HP. I'm not alone in this effort as there are othersĀ  that feel the same way I do. Doing this type of work ...

March Madness and User Patterns

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008

I'm running an office March Madness tournament primarily because I like to compete but also because I think its a good way to build up a little team cohesiveness amongst our very distributed organization.  This is the second year and I've now made the connection that this is a pretty ...

Reasons I stay at BigCo

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

Kevin Merritt over at Blist posted what is to me an inspirational list of differences between a startup and a big company. I work at a big company, one of the biggest in fact. As much as I tell myself I want out I haven't done it yet. In response ...