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Remember the new billing/invoice system I designed and launched for UniversityTutor.com? Things aren’t looking very promising so far. They started off well and in the first week or two about a dozen invoices got processed through the site. I figured it would slowly trend upwards from there as people started adopting it, but in the [...]
New Rating System For BuyersVote.com
27 Apr 2009Well last week I launched BuyersVote.com and the response was good. Lots of people sent me their feedback and I was able to watch people use it (a very valuable experience). I also put it through the “parent test” where I watched people who weren’t SUPER tech savvy (my parents :) use it. By far [...]
Rice Business Plan Competition
20 Apr 2009My last announcement is unfortunately going to be a delayed a day or two because I spent the entire weekend attending the Rice University Business Plan Competition! My new website for the annoucement is done and online, I’m just having a few folks test it out and make sure nothing major is broken before posting [...]
Big Annoucement Coming Up Later This Week!
15 Apr 2009Hey Folks, Now that UniversityTutor.com has the billing/invoice system setup and running (more and more people are starting to use it) I’ve had a few days to work on a project I’ve been pondering for a long time. I don’t want to give away too many details yet, but here’s what I can tell you: [...]
A Good Example Of Bad User Interface Design
1 Apr 2009Check out Time Magazine’s web page for the top 100 most influential people of 2009. Lots of people on this list are emailing around saying “hey I’m at #25 right now, vote for me please!” So when you click to their individual page on the website, you move the little slider over to #1 (you [...]
How To Solve Tough Problems
In: Updates
1 Apr 2009Hey folks…no blog updates yet since I’m still busy finishing the new billing feature for UniversityTutor.com. It’s getting pretty crazy…I’ve mostly finished coding up the hand drawn screens that I showed you last week, so I should have a video of them for you soon. They are all ajaxy and look amazing. I also got [...]
Television Reaches New Low – Produces “Hot Girls In Scary Places”
In: Psychology|Updates
15 Mar 2009Right after I get done telling people how bad TV is, they go and prove me right. E! decided to produce a show called Hot Girls In Scary Places. Yes, you guessed it…this is literally a show where some cute girls go into haunted houses carrying pink flashlights. And….well, they film it. Somebody actually had [...]
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Adding Gasoline To Your Rocket Ship
20 Feb 2009I went to a pretty interesting talk yesterday at the Houston Technology Center where Bijoy Goswami was speaking. It was a great chance to network with a bunch of other entrepreneurs. One of the biggest take aways I got from the talk was when he outlined the 3 basic types of startups that you can [...]
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