Archive for the 'Entrepreneur' Category

I’m a “Builder Entrepreneur”, what are you?

This article, authored by Tony Wright, is a nice breakdown of the traits of two types of entrepreneurs; builder entrepreneurs and business entrepreneurs. Builder entrepreneurs are those who “designed, coded, played sysadmin, and played all sorts of other production roles for their startups”. Tony goes on to write that business entrepreneurs don’t “really have a […]

(Short) Interview with Ruby on Rails Founder

Interesting video interview with the Ruby on Rails founder.

source: O’Reilly
Also… testing to see if my Wordpress Twitter Updater Plugin is working.

Social Web Research Launches!

What is that, you ask? Social Web Research is something for everyone. The world is changing. Traditional marketing mediums are losing their competitive edge. Look at how president-elect Obama took the election, with a grass-roots, very much web-enabled approach. By using the social web mediums, Obama and his team were able to mobilize volunteers and […]

Michael Staton & Web Start-ups

Last night, a few friends and I had dinner with Michael Staton, a founder of Inigral. Michael has been in Abilene this week visiting ACU. ACU will be piloting Inigral’s Schools on Facebook. In our conversation, an interesting topic was brought up about the make up of a successful start-up. In my past, so far […]

A Week of Firsts

It has been a crazy week and a half. Starting with FOWA, Jon Hinson (code monkey and co-founder of TeacherHubs, sole-developer of Get a Roomy) and I had a great time listening to all of the speakers. We were able to meet Kevin Rose of Digg and Gary Vaynerchuk of WineLibrary TV. The networking opportunities […]

Making Time

I am a busy guy. I probably always will be. We all have our own stories of busyness, and since this is my blog, I will tell you about mine: I have a lovely fiance who I love to hang out with! I work 25+ hours a week at Milsoft. I have eight hours of […]

I am ready to graduate…

I cannot wait to graduate!
I am tired of homework. I am tired of class breaking my work rhythm. I am tired of working on assignments that have nothing to do with any of my current ventures. I am tired of teachers who won’t look at the bigger picture and let me apply my current ventures […]

A Passion for Creation

As I was cleaning my room tonight (a very rare occasion), I was trying to organize all of the stuff that didn’t need to be washed or thrown away. I came to my jackets, and I needed a place to put them. My first thought was “just hang them in the closet”, but I don’t […]