TweetIf anyone is looking for some business/application ideas for using Twilio … I have had some SMS & VXML ideas in the past. I think using SMS to send URLs to the user, so they can click and view things in their smartphone, is going to really come into play. Or calling a # in [...]

TweetLast week I was at the WNY Venture Association seminar on “Angel Investing in Western New York.” Not the sexiest market, in particular not for web technology. But some interesting tidbits came out of it — Ron Schreiber (Softbank Capital; Ingram-Micro co-founder) put some interesting nuggets out there. For VC firms, the 10-year annual return [...]

TweetYou can read it, here. Enjoy! http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/15/twitter-facebook-amazon-affiliate-marketing/

TweetI haven’t looked at the API, but I see crazy potential of apps being built on-top of FourSquare. The one thing I REALLY WANT [and have for years], is, when I go to a restaurant.. I want to see what everyone that’s ever been there rates as the best dishes; then what my friends rate [...]

TweetThis is saying a lot. If you know me, you know I likely have attended, on average, 2 concerts per month for the last 12 years of my life. Thus, nearly 300 concerts — that doesn’t really consider the nearly 50 acts that I see at various concert festivals (SXSW). I’ve seen the new face [...]

TweetSpecifically I’m seeking a contract UX designer — someone that can go through our app and make the usability better. As a quick task to see if you have the chops, how can you make the following ‘reports/stats’ page more usable? [This page basically breaks down stats for any plugin that the Publisher is using [...]

TweetI gave this presentation last night at our third BarCampBuffalo. Sorry there’s no audio (or some examples of my pencil mockups, or RFP spreadsheet): How To Startup! View more presentations.

TweetI received a question from someone that I thought was a good one: After doing some research and a lot of googling I´ve a lot of resources in different areas (customer development, project managment, agile development, business plans, etc). I feel frustrated trying to glue all this together in a practical order so that I [...]

TweetResponse to Jason’s MySpace To-Do list: I think #2 and #3 that I list below are most important. [I aligned them with your #'s]. #3 has the most upside [global to 1billion users]. #11 is an idea missing [they are slowly losing bands, and thus band followers, over to twitter]. 1. Buying a search engine [...]

TweetI’m interested in what a staffing plan typically looks like for a widget startup company, like: MyBlogLog, Lijit, IntenseDebate, Disqus, etc. What’s needed initially til launch? After launch, at what # of installs do you need: community manager; relationship manager (someone proactively engaging Publishers to install the widget), etc? Anyone have any info on this? [...]