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    Don’t Plan It, Build It

    Last Fri­day, I lis­tened to a great pod­cast where Mike Mon­teiro and Kaite Gillum of Mule Design inter­viewed Chris Sacca who explic­itly said no one is fund­ing ideas. Today, Indi­ana Uni­ver­sity announced a $1.1 mil­lion fund to estab­lish the world’s largest stu­dent prize for a soft­ware or tech­nol­ogy busi­ness plan. How can my alma mater […]

    How to Win Your Security Deposit Back and More in Chicago

    tl;dr Get a lawyer. The more like Maury Levy, the bet­ter. Nine months ago I ended an ami­ca­ble lease with three room­mates and a land­lord in the Wrigleyville neigh­bor­hood of Chicago. About seven months ago, I received a secu­rity deposit check that was late and less than the orig­i­nal amount. I went to court, settled, […]

    $100 Experiment With Advertising

    Back in August, I did some exper­i­ment­ing with adver­tis­ing for our iPhone app Geolorean using the tra­di­tional Google Adwords and a new wave approach through Twit­ter via Mag­pie. The results were pretty inter­est­ing, and it cost me nothing.

    Thoughts From Tahoe Tech Talk

    Last Thurs­day, I flew to Reno with Andy and drove down to South Lake Tahoe for Tahoe Tech Talk 2010 pre­sented by Vayn­er­me­dia. When I first saw the lineup of speak­ers, I knew I had to go. They did not dis­ap­point. It was a great con­fer­ence because it didn’t feel like a conference.

    The Combine 2010 Harvest

    Last week­end, I returned to Bloom­ing­ton, Indi­ana for The Com­bine Tech Con­fer­ence 2010. It was “a dis­play of tal­ent, entre­pre­neur­ship and inno­va­tion” filled with fan­tas­tic speak­ers as well as a day-long devel­op­ment com­pe­ti­tion to help non-profit orga­ni­za­tions and vol­un­teer groups. I didn’t take any for­mal notes but wanted to jot down what I took away from […]