Nielsen/NetRatings recently published the list of the top video sites in July 2007. YouTube was visited by 55,135,000 unique hosts, and maintained the lead, while Veoh showed the strongest growth. There is strong growth in eyeballs watching video across multiple sites. Where are these eyeballs coming from, what were they watching/doing previously, and how can [...]

Americans invented the Internet, but …… What does the data provided in the two tables below portend for you, the entrepreneur? Opportunity? Why them and not us?
While you’re musing the future of our bleak Internet performance, check out Ed Mugg’s Purdue Research Park company, www.covideo.com. What do you think about what the company is [...]

The generation of individuals who are currently students have “different” ideas about what their future workspace might look like. They want to work at what they want to work at, not what some white shirt whose claim to fame is that he is their boss by appointment thinks t hey should work at. If they [...]

Concept Statement:
What are casual games: Typically they are titles that consumers can learn to play easily. They tend to emphasize fun gameplay rather than realistic graphics. They can range from card games such as poker to old arcade hits such as Pac-Man to puzzle games such as sudoku to simple strategy and mystery titles.
Who’s playing [...]

I awoke Sunday morning (8/26/07 to an email in my Purdue account informing me that a female student in Harrison Hall had reportedly been attacked by three men. The entire text is below. Protection of Purdue’s most valuable asset, its students, is a problem that entrepreneurs need to address. Consider a modification of the technology [...]

  Before we get into CUBOID watermelons, we had a past blog about Conduit Labs. The guys @ Conduit picked up on this, and included a link back to our thinkbeta.com blog. Take a look here:
For years consumers struggled to fit the large round fruit in their refrigerators.
The round watermelon is unlikely to go out of [...]

As entrepreneurs, at some point in time, you will have employees. Books, college courses, seminars, and careers have been built on consulting employers as to how to treat and/or deal with employees. It’s what OLS is all about. The three pictures below say it all - what say you? Have you ever felt like doing [...]

You are now Justin Jenkins, Owner/CEO of The Founding Collegians. You have received a bunch of good feedback from your target market (thanks!). What do you do now? What is the first step/thing you would do with the input from yesterday’s blog? How would you prioritize the inputs? How would you rationally go about considering what [...]

                                
The Founding Collegians was started by two Purdue students who became enamored by the after hours sport, Beer Pong. Recognizing that more often than not, the rules got changed as the night became more lubricated er, wore on, they first wrote a formal set of rules and incorporated them on a poster. Recognizing further [...]

Conduit Labs is a Massive Multiplayer Online (MMO) startup that hasn’t gone live yet. For students of entrepreneurship, their blog (here) makes for interesting reading about the dynamics of how teams come together, the role of VCs in company formation, etc. Note that CRV (Charles River Ventures) is the same VC that we use [...]