Blake is a different kind of Texan and a former Amazing Race contestant. As an entrepreneur, he did lots of stuff “right.” Perhaps the first and foremost is his effort is based in Santa Monica, California, a haven for rights-based groups from Hollywood. His shoes, a modification of the alpargata, a traditional Argentine rope-soled shoe, [...]

Yesterday’s blog suggested ways to “get ‘r done” without having to hire employees. Today’s blog looks at what a mid-level employee costs a typical company. Granted, admin assistants don’t load quite as heavily, but they still load.
Added 12/2707: A commenter named Reader has suggested in the comments that I have not adequately pointed out the [...]

Starting off as a young company often stretches assets to the limit - both human capital and $$$$. There are several ways startups can offload more mundane and routine tasks rather than doing all badly or hiring of organic personnel to do so. Up front I will state that my bias is towards exhausting every [...]

The videos below combine and visualize some Envision Center (EC) research ideas within the context of Google Earth’s Purdue Campus.
The videos help illustrate some conceptual possibilities for the EC’s cyberclassroom project. The target audience is undergrads, so the tempo and music might be a little bit saucy.  However, one additional goal was to quickly [...]

The following link provides more information than most people want or need to know about nefarious activity around the globe. It is a really neat mashup based on Google Maps and shows what innovative people can do with general, Open Source tools. The Alexa traffic indicator depicted on left indicates increasing interest in the site. [...]

This post from TechCrunch is quoted in its entirety for students of entrepreneurship; lots of interesting observations! Hank
"This guest post is written by Glen Kelman, the president and CEO of real estate startup Redfin. Previously, he was a co-founder of Plumtree Software, a Sequoia-backed, publicly traded company that created the enterprise portal software [...]

Valleywag had this interesting post up recently:
Event-planning site Going.com created Naughty Gifts for the Facebook platform last summer, hoping the app would bring traffic to the site. But instead, a lot of users have come and gone. The company says Naughty Gifts has gathered 4 million Facebook users,… Going.com, however, hasn’t seen a commensurate [...]

Matt, a self-taught programmer, part time “startupper”, and presently a full time Purdue student (paying his own out of state tuition via his company), is being held back by only having two hands. He needs in the worst way to hook up with PHP  programmers who can take a concept from discussion to reality [...]

I have been playing (too much Linda says) with our new iMac. As previously reported, the memory upgrade was a piece of cake and within the capability of anyone who can wield a small screwdriver. The Leopard upgrade from Tiger was flaky. When I inserted the Leopard CD, the system hung for 45 minutes. [...]

The iPhone should not be called anything involving “phone.” It is well on its way to becoming, well, you name it, a wearable communication device, a wearable computer, a me/you/them interface, or? So, to me it’s not a “phone,” it’s my new iHank. The “phone” aspect is what I will in all probability use the [...]