Patriots and Mercenaries
February 10, 2008 by Kevin Merritt
When hiring for blist, we look for a trait that I think is akin to being a patriot. These folks demonstrate true passion for a much larger cause. For these wonderful, passionate individuals, their thoughts focus on having huge impact on significant causes. Patriots agonize over the [...]

In yesterday’s [2/26/08] ENTR200 classes, Sawyer Sparks expounded on the wisdom of business plans, 20 pages or so in length, with an executive summary written after the fact.
I am a proponent of the more cutting edge philosophy that Business Plans, per se, are becoming so yesterday. I want to see a well written one-two page [...]

I’m writing this blog on Monday, 2/25/08. Later today, there is to be a conference in San Fran hosted by Adobe celebrating the rollout of AIR 1.0. So what is AIR [Adobe integrated Runtime]?  Adobe states with Adobe® AIR™ runtime, you can deliver branded rich Internet applications (RIAs) on the desktop that give you a [...]

Naming your product and/or company is one of the most important decisions founders make. The name/brand becomes your company. Marketing books are full of “solutions” in this area, but perhaps this example servers as the best example.  The name captures everything. There is not a person on this earth who has not had something alien [...]

During Friday’s Incubicity contest prelims, Nwokedi “got-r-done” with a very enthusiastic and passionate presentation that resulted in a great interchange with the three judges during the 5 minute Q&A. Max Showalter reported in Saturday’s Journal & Courier on the contest here: Now Nwokedi & esposure.com are on to the May 2, 2008 Regional [...]

Friday’s lead story [front page] in the Journal & Courier by Max Showalter was about EDS’s plans to locate at Purdue Research Park and bringing 200 new jobs to Indiana. Governor Mitch Daniels is quoted as saying:
“It’s another win for the Indiana economy, and for one of our hottest growth engines — the region [...]

 
Read this for interesting breaking news concerning the Commodore 64 - Hank
 
 

On the surface, DormAid, a service company started by current Harvard students  Michael Kopko and Robert Cecot, is another one of the pain-now companies that I would normally reject as a ENTR200-based business idea. However, I would be grossly in error. With a tagline of “Work hard, Play hard. We’ll take care of the [...]

On September 7, 2008, EA [Electronic Arts] is presently scheduled to release a game that has been over three years in the making, named Spore [link to wiki spore].  Conceived of by Will Wright, the brains behind the most successful game series in history, the SIMS series, the reason you should run to the nearest [...]