“We will fight terror wherever it is because if we do not fight it, it will fight us. If we don’t reach it, it will reach us.” Dan Halutz, Chief of Staff Israel Defense Forces He is right… 

37 Signals, the company we modeled Spur after, just did the unthinkable: they raised venture capital from Jeff Bezos!  Why did they do it?  They didn’t need the money, but perhaps they wanted some Amazon magic.  But is Amazon what 37 Signals wants to be?  I hope not, and I don’t think so.  But, getting [...]

Sorry, but I cannot resist commenting on CNN reports I watched at lunch today. Many U.S. citizens are on TV complaining about the conditions of the U.S. Evacuation this past week. The complaints range from, “it took too long before we heard from the State Department� to “there were no air conditioners on the ship.� [...]

Rick Segal had a great story about a “shoestring startup” talking to a Valley VC yesterday.  He recounts a story where a VC starts up a conversation with two guys running their business from a garage by saying, “Guys, you really need to get a toll-free conference call number so we don’t incur the charges.”  [...]

It has been a while since I have blogged about our SimpleTicket project.  What is SimpleTicket?  SimpleTicket, the first Ruby on Rails based trouble ticket system released as an open source project. Built as an alternative to expensive and complicated ticking systems like Remedy and Heat. We initially launched SimpleTicket on SourceForge, but soon (within [...]

Its official, Weblogs Work is now part of Big in Japan! It took us a year to determined that weblogs do in fact work, but they are simply one social media tool a business or agency should consider. As a result we have decided to consolidate the Big in Japan and Weblogs Work brand into [...]

Company Name:  Innography Founded:  January 2006 Founders:  Tyron Standing and Steve Gebing About the company:  Innography provides automated innovation research and analysis.  As  public information floods every aspect of the workplace, users will  increasingly need to find what they don’t know to help them make  better business decisions.  Whereas search engines today focus on answering [...]

Company Name: BroadRamp, Inc. Founded: August 2004 Founder: Sean Darwish, CTO About the company: BroadRamp delivers a universal content and application delivery platform – the Content Delivery System as seen at DEMO ’06. BroadRamp’s CDS converts existing content into rich, online interactive multimedia available over a broadband Internet connection and a standard Internet browser, eliminating [...]

Company Name:  Exceptional Introductions Founded:  May 2006 (launch scheduled for July 2006) Founder:  Kent Little About the company:  The idea is simple:  ‘Upscale men,’ (i.e. not you or me) who are described as men who are “respected, prominent, distinguished, influential and eligble” are required to pay a monthly fee to meet “the most beautiful, commitment-minded [...]

Dallas Entrepreneur, Glen Agritelley has had great success taking under performing companies and turning them into gems. His first venture was a computer retail store called Entre Computer Sales he bought in the late 1970′s. In the 1980′s he joined Microsoft opening offices in four states ultimately employing more than 165 employees. By the late [...]