I hate to hang on Mark’s every word, but something he said is STILL bothering me. Since the class videos still aren’t up (capstone team or Cantaloupe responsible?), I’ll try my best to paraphrase what Mark said during class: Open Source just isn’t profitable. I don’t like it. You’re not going to find a lot [...]
Cross-posted from my I400 class Kim Lee presented last week about her experiences with start-ups even though she has never started a business. For the most part, her employee perspective was refreshing especially since we’ve talked so much about finding talented employees and keeping them happy. Her history exposed some flaws and strengths of pasts [...]
I wish this week’s teleconference audio was clearer so I could have taken better notes on Don Brown’s presentation, but I had to concentrate so hard on what he was saying it didn’t leave much time to jot much down. Luckily, he’s very easy to find on Google: Article from BizVoice/Indiana Chamber (pdf) Forbes Profile [...]
I had some thoughts after the first couple of weeks using the i400 blog and the course in general. Hopefully they’ll continue to listen and improve the course. It’s been pretty good so far, but as you’ll read has some kinks to work out like any beta production.
This semester two of my classes are requiring that I blog, but neither of them will allow me to use my existing blog. In true blogger fashion, I’ll be crossposting everything here. I personally think it’s somewhat idiotic I have to do this because I can easily categorize my posts, but it would be irresponsible [...]