I ran into Mindy Schlegel in Shipshewana last evening and it reminded me of this photo which I’ve been meaning to blog about. Mindy was my business partner in my first business, Everblue Media, LLC, which we started while I was a senior and Mindy had just graduated from Goshen College. Mindy and I had [...]
Just stumbled across this today…younoodle.com has some sort of proprietary rating system for startups that generates little charts like this one: They pulled us from the CrunchBase database. Interesting, not sure how useful it is…yet…
If the following conditions apply: you’d like to check out a tradeshow in a nearby city like, say, Chicago you don’t want to go to the keynotes or workshops or anything you’re cash-strapped/extremely frugal Here’s what you do: Go to the convention center (tip: if you go to McCormick in Chicago, just park on S. [...]
This week, we moved into our new world headquarters, conveniently located right below our old office headquarters. Our shop remains where it is. Why the move? Well, to survive the current downturn, we’ve had to make some hard decisions and scale back a bit here at RedPost. We’ve cut staff time and downsized the office [...]
Here’s the audio of Nate Feltman’s speech I blogged about last week.
This post builds on my earlier one, titled Interesting Times, where I stated that “the seeds of the recovery and our economic future are being planted” now. A couple tidbits that I’ll connect (promise): Circumstances haven’t changed much since I wrote that post just over 2 years ago, other than that Elkhart County is making [...]
The latest links from Eric’s internet-information-addiction, compliments of Delicious: Agency Clients Slash Budgets 20% or More, Digital Only Bright Spot 62% of N. American CEOs think digital ad spending will grow this year. (tags: digitalsignage economy advertising downturn spending digitaladvertising) Business Dynamic Statistics Briefing: Jobs Created from Startups “…it is striking that business startups remain [...]
Along the lines of yesterday’s post, Stuart sent me an article last week about Dean Kamen, Segway inventor and entrepreneur. I’ve talked about Kamen before, and volunteered with a RedPost setup at the local FIRST LEGO Robotics competition this past November (Kamen started FIRST). From the CNN article: When to quit — said Kamen, also [...]
January 1, 2009 marks a big turning point for RedPost. Up until this point, RedPost has operated in startup mode. I define “startup mode” as simply “not making money,” which translates to “operating with OPM (Other People’s Money).” OPM can more broadly be described as a combination of founder’s capital, sweat equity, credit and investment [...]
We’re prepping a grant app and getting into the question of what exactly is this innovation thing. It reminds me of my gen ed humanities class in college where we dealt with “What is Art?” Consider each of these items by themselves. Is it innovative if: you’re using the latest and greatest technologies to do [...]
