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Startup - Ad Infuse »

Not exactly a perfected technology yet but San Francisco based company Ad Infused began delivering advertising to iPhones today.
The first report I read noted some slowness in the ad popping up which likely is more related to what carrier you are on given the limitations of speed on a cell phone.
Brian Cowley which if you […]

Intelius moving forward with $143 Million dollar IPO »

 
 Naveen Jain is back in the saddle again. You would know this name as the leader of the high flyer Infospace back in the day. They will become listed on the Nasdaq under the ticker INTL.
You have a proven leader in the market place but then you end up with a foot fault when it comes […]

Intelius halts cellphone directory service »

Speaking of cellphone caller id (below is an article on the startup Cequint) Intelius has halted it’s cell phone lookup feature after complaints from the public and corporations like Verizon.
Personally I do not want my cell in a directory anywhere if it can be avoid. I am all for a product like Cequint that is […]

Startup Review - Cequint »

Cequint is a Seattle based telecom service company offering caller ID services for cell phones.
And no we are not talking about your wife knowing that your standing on the corner Broadway and Boston by the donut shop eating a chocolate double dipped after you promised you would cut some weight before the Cancun trip.
We are […]

Startup - Is a Business Plan the best Plan? »

You must have a business plan!
Well that is the first thing every non-business-owner will tell you. Everyone working a 40 for someone else will tell you exactly what and how you need to do to start a business because they already built an empire right?
 If you have or tried to start a business do you […]

Startup Business - Places known to fail »

Here is another one to make your business life a little easier. You always read about how and why businesses fail but over and over it is the same old thing you read. I would like to add a few posts over time of very pointed reasons on why certain businesses fail.
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I can think of […]

Business Hack – Using Time Zones to make more Sales Calls »

During one startup, we had a national audience whom we wanted to sell our service to. With the founding partners still working their full time jobs at the time we found ourselves making calls on the way to work, on lunch breaks and on the way home. Living in EST, often when we were calling […]