Category: Business
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SUU Entrepreneurship Speaker Series
Last week I had a fun opportunity to speak with 100+ Southern Utah University students to kick off the semester’s Entrepreneurship Speaker Series. Hat’s off to Tyler Stillman and his team at the The Larry H. & Gail Miller Center for Entrepreneurship on the SUU campus in in Cedar City, Utah for putting together such…
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Why I didn’t go to TED, Bil, or ETech: The Big Business & Technology Expo.
Just to be clear, all of these conferences are great. I’m just not into them this year. It doesn’t work with the travel budget and I’m busy on other projects. But watching the coverage of all these other conferences has left me feeling a little like I’m missing out. So, I thought I would cover…
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My Top Secret Google Keywords
This post is another my in the ongoing series detailing how I’ll going to both increase traffic and page rank of tylerwhitaker.com. Ok, so I had a little fun with the title of this post. But, I’m going to share with you my top secret Google keywords. These aren’t just any keywords. These are the…
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Apprentice TV Show = Ratings, Not Good Business.
I keep hoping that Donald Trump’s Apprentice will deliver more of the insights from his book The Art of the Deal. But, the celebrity edition of the show is just more of the same. Robert Merrill has a great post on his blog about Trump’s decision to keep Omarosa over Tiffany. I couldn’t agree more. The…
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Mozy and Phil Windley’s CTO Breakfast
So I picked the wrong day to miss Phil Windley’s CTO breakfast. I usually make it a top priority based on the good food and excellent technical discussion. With guys like Phil Windley, Scott Lemon, and Phil Burns you’re guaranteed a lively and informative dialog on all things technology. Unfortunately, the two new employees that…
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Imagine your data on a Swivel
Swivel.com is the YouTube for data. Interesting business model: 1 part Google Spreadsheets, 1 part YouTube, 1 part graphics. I guess in this day and age you can take just about any idea and put it on the web and create a community around it. I like it. But I like the business ideas it…
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500 Gallons of Fresh Water a Day
Do you dream of living “Off the Grid?” Check out this solution for fresh water that is reminiscent of the moisture farms on Tatooine. Aqua Sciences, Inc. has a technology that can product up to 500 gallons of fresh water a day from the moisture in the air. FEMA already have 2 of these $500,000 units…
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ChaCha.com a Google Killer?
What do you get when you combine the human intelligence behind Amazon’s MTurk and Google’s clean and accurate approach to web searching: ChaCha.com For a search engine, ChaCha.com provides a clean interface and good results. But what is interesting is the human intelligence that’s injected into the equation. Can’t find what you need with other…
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Greg Gianforte on Bootstrapping Your Company
I just got the chance to listen to Greg Gianforte’s talk the 2006 MySQL User’s Conference. Greg has a great grasp of what it takes to bootstrap a company. I love the sell first, build second approach to product development. After all, if you can’t sell it, what’s the purpose in building it. Here’s a link…
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Unified Messaging for the Masses
I just stumbled upon an interesting consumer voice mail business called GotVoice. They offer a free service to have your home of cell phone voice mail sent to your email in the form of an mp3 file. I had this years ago at Echopass called unified messaging. We had voice mail and fax all sent…
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