Archive for March, 2008

 

 
And The Winners of the Sproutbuilder-Widget Contest Are:
 
1. Kristeen Hudson’s team
2. Deepak Nuli’s team
3. Brian Reinhart’s team
 
The $monetary rewards$ will be given out next Thursday in class or Friday @ the BDM pitch contest.
 
Congratulations and thanks for entering the contest! Hank
 
 

In class Tuesday [3/18/08] I mentioned reading an article in the Cabo San Lucas, Mexico English newspaper about drugs in our drinking water supplies. Further, I suggested this might be an area of increasing concern for Generation “Y” as Boomers age and ingest and expel even more drugs - an accident waiting to happen [...]

Was Daddy’s Ferrari

Once upon a time an entrepreneur rewarded himself with a new Ferrari. He had a daughter who wanted very badly to drive the new Ferrari, and loving his daughter very much, he relented. With only 9 miles on the clock and @ an obvious high rate of speed, the daughter preceded to attempt to [...]

Chrysler’s GEM

While recently browsing for real estate in the Corpus Christi, Texas area, I ran across a web site named www.corpustv.com. On this web page, someone had for sale a funny little electric car named the GEM, short for Global Electric Motorcars. Turns out this company has been producing battery-powered vehicles in Fargo, SD for over [...]

Presented in order of reciept:
 
1. Kristeen Hudson et al
 

 
 
2. Deepak Nuli et al

 
3. Brian Reinhart et al
 

Have A Great Spring Break

One of my ENTR200 students, Ryan Wilsey, pointed out a new web site, www.vcasmo.com,  that supports many combinations of multimedia. Below is a “presentation on Visual and Creative Thinking. The presentation explores how professional in all fields can apply creative and visual thinking skills to their work as well as why people ignore the talents [...]

Around Purdue University at least, there seems to be this undercurrent that girls don’t start technology-based companies, that Computer Science is reserved for the Nwokedies of the world, and that females in general shun technology startups. Let me introduce you to Leah Culver, a University of Minnesota Computer Science graduate, and a co-founder of  Pownce. [...]

 

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Monday Mishmash

1. The Purdue Research Park will be holding a high-tech job Tuesday, 3/4/08 from 10-2 @ the University Plaza Hotel, 2001 Northwestern Ave, W. Lafayette, IN. Park companies will be there talking about jobs in  engineering, IT, life sciences, HRM and $$$ services. More info @ (765)-494-8645. You can get an idea, not exclusive, [...]

Getting Real

Getting Real details the business, design, programming, and marketing principles of 37signals. The book is packed with keep-it-simple insights, contrarian points of view, and unconventional approaches to software design. This is not a technical book or a design tutorial, it’s a book of ideas. Anyone working on a web app — including entrepreneurs, designers, [...]