A little over 8 years ago, I came up with a zany idea (which was later patented) to make the Internet a better place by creating a technology which would automatically identify where people were based solely on their IP address. The idea came to me when I hit the FedEx and Ikea website [...]
I finally saw official mention of this so I thought I’d do a quick post. Internet Explorer 7 includes functionality which helps prevent phishing attacks. This technology was provided from third party vendors to Microsoft and includes Digital Resolve’s service (Digital Resolve is a Digital Envoy business unit). Congrats to the Digital [...]
Continuing the thoughts from my posting about diversifying revenue generation, I signed up to be a paid reviewer for ReviewMe. The following is a paid review for ReviewMe. To ensure that this review is not just about getting search engine links, I’m not directly linking to the reviewed site. If you want [...]
One classic startup problem is relying on a single small segment of the market to generate 100% of your revenue. This is fine when your target market is doing well. But your ability to function is at the mercy of the performance of your customers.
Sometimes a diversification may not seem like “real” revenue [...]
I’ve been slow at talking about this, but I recently joined the board of another private company – Coyote Point Systems. Coyote Point has a great history (which you can read here) but the most impressive thing about the company is that they were totally bootstrapped from the beginning. There are few stories out there [...]