Archive for the ‘ Start-Up Experiences ’ Category
In early 2007, I was beginning to get ready to depart the warm blanket of my former employer to dive into freezing start-up waters. There was still a huge amount of Web 2.0 startup-excitement here in California, and I was a amazed at the number of “companies” trying to be successful on what amounted to [ READ MORE ]
This blog has been dormant for more than two years now, which is easily explained: my adventures with ConnectSolutions have been a complete consumer of time. Fortunately, it has been an incredible experience, and I now find myself extremely proud of what we our team has accomplished to-date, and more than ever, I’m fired-up about [ READ MORE ]
ConnectSolutions has just "sneaked" a Beta of "MeetingPulse," a desktop application fully integrated with Acrobat Connect. The app is based on Adobe AIR, and provides instant access to Connect meeting rooms, allowing users to quickly access their meeting rooms, be notified of participants joining their rooms, and viewing historical trends in their meeting usage. The application [ READ MORE ]
It’s been awhile since I’ve posted here, but it is not because I’ve been lazy. I’ve recently left Adobe to start a new business, and as a result, have been burning the midnight-oil to get that off the ground. The new business is focused on providing managed services, with an initial focus on web conferencing. [ READ MORE ]
This is one of those “hope to have” challenges where adoption happens so quickly that the business is unable to keep pace and scale out. Users, regardless of how compelling the service is, will only put up with reliability shortcomings for so long. From the comments, it sounds like users will put up with it [ READ MORE ]
Very interesting article. 16 steps to take (and pitfalls to avoid) when starting a new business. How to build a bulletproof startup – June 1, 2006 [ READ MORE ]
Paul Edmondson: The Aha Moments [ READ MORE ]
EarlyStageVC: What are Your Barriers to Entry? Interesting article about the challenges in defending competitive differentiation these days… [ READ MORE ]