Max Beatty

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 of […]

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 companies […]

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 (including […]

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 […]