I’ve been rebuilding our check-in application for Fresh Vine this past week in QT. Moving away from Adobe Air has been a while coming since it seems like they are abandoning the environment. Developing our app in HTML5/JS/CSS will allow…
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Your First 100 Customers: Ideas for Lead Generation and Closing
A group of 50 people collaborated during MinneBar around how to get sales rolling in our start ups. We generated two separate lists to reference when an afternoon becomes open. Make sure to come back to this for reference in…
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Distance to Disruption
We wrote the first lines of Fresh Vine full of audacious dreams. Creating meaningful, intuitive, and powerful software. A tool designed to help communities decentralize their leadership and empower volunteers. This would activate resources towards their mission they had never…
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Heartbleed – Another Reason your Startup Needs a Tech Founder
This week presented the web with one of the largest security breaches to date. A bug in software that secures the connections between our services and our users exposed sensitive data. Heartbleed and OpenSSL were written about extensively this week.…
Read MoreMission Critical Data after Tragedy
In light of the recent attack on an elementary school out east it struck me just how disruptive those events are for a community. It got me thinking of the staff of the school trying to communicate with the families…
Read MoreCommunicate to Maximize your Mentorship
The best thing you can do for your mentorship time is to communicate well. There are three key ways that this communication takes place that will help you to maximize your time together. Set the Agenda beforehand As entrepreneurs we…
Read MoreFinding Mentors Worth your Time
Not all mentors are created equal. As you move forward you’ll find a lot of people with opinions for how you should be using your time and focus. All opinions are not created equal. They want you to succeed, but…
Read MoreThe Differences Great Mentors Make
Since you’re reading about mentors it tells me that – at a minimum – you believe it is valuable. I hope that these encouragements will galvanize your passion for life long mentorship. These are the three reasons why I pursue…
Read MoreMentorship will Change your Life
With my first startup back in High School I lucked out by having people enter into my life to mentor me and provide guidance. As I got older, and started my current endeavor I noticed that it required a lot…
Read MoreExcellent List App to Get Things Done
One of the biggest challenges in ministry is keeping track of everything that is on our plates as ministers. Very few of us are fortunate enough to be able to focus exclusively on preaching, or pastoral care. Most of us…
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