Archive for April, 2007

Friday 4/20/07

Note 
Wired News reported this morning that over 7 million have viewed the comedy clip Landlord by Will Ferrell!!!!!!!! See yesterday’s post for details.

Find A Problem & Solve It - Wireless Lighting
 
My wife’s father was a Purdue EE grad, circa 1934, and an avid ham radio operator. He had a bad habit of running extension cords [...]

Thursday 4/10/07

YAVS
(Yet Another Video Site)
In the past 18 months or less, sites hosting video clips, more often than not based on Web 2.0 underpinings, have sprouted up like dandelions in the spring. The clip below relates YAVS, but this one with an interesting twist: you vote to keep what you consider to be the “best” in [...]

Wednesday 4/18/07

Wii-Day Purdue
Entrepreneurship & Innovation class - ENTR200
 
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Green Revisited:
A couple of days ago I cited solar power installation as an area of interest for budding entrepreneurs. This is a follow up. Today’s San Jose Mercury News has a story (here) about a movement in California to require “green building” by 2013. [...]

Tuesday 4/17/07

 

Sometimes opportunity for entrepreneurs comes from what is called “unintended consequences.” Unintended consequences are those situations in which your product or service is used in ways you didn’t originally anticipate. Giovan Cullotta, owner of Giovan’s Restaurant, has experienced such a phenomena first hand. Seems that some of his customers got to talking about not being [...]

Monday 4/16/07

 
Sometime entrepreneurs need all the help they can get:-)

Sunday 4/15/07 -

is a new video hosting site built by Mark Hall and housed in San Francisco. VodPod is an interesting video aggregation and sharing service that works by building ‘pods’ of videos by using the sharing embed code of popular video hosting sites. I signed up for their service, and their aggregation of several videos [...]

First post.

We’re putting up this blog using the Open Source program WordPress. It has more bells and whistles than we can ever come close to using. This is for you, Purdue entrepreneurs, to use to communicate, learn, and hopefully profit from your experience @ Purdue.