Know Your Customers!

As I mentioned last week, Nelson Chu gave a great presentation at the Q3 MoneyTree meeting. The title of his presentation was Tips for Entrepreneurs: Know Your Customers! Nelson was kind enough to share his presentation with me. From Nelson’s point of view are are three reasons to get close to your customers. It enables […]

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December 4, 2006  |  Comments  |  Tweet  |  Posted in Customer Focus, Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital

Evoca is Easy

Evoca is a company that has created a Web applicaion that makes it very easy to to create, organize, share, search voice recordings. They are also my first “client” as an ATDC Venture Catalyst. They recently released a TypePad widget for their Browser Mic. It installed in three easy steps in a few minutes and […]

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November 3, 2006  |  Comments  |  Tweet  |  Posted in Customer Focus, Entrepreneurship

Einsteins – Maybe, Maybe Not

Ever since Royal Bagel went out of business the only real option to get bagels in Atlanta is Einstein Bros. Nothing against those guys but it is just not the same. There was a group of traditional Jewish folks that used to while away their Sunday mornings with a bottle of Scotch outside the Royal […]

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July 25, 2006  |  Comments  |  Tweet  |  Posted in Customer Focus

Good Byes & Conflicts

I am a semi-avid photographer.  While we have a Canon PowerShot  that we absolutely love for point and shoot,  I still get serious with my trusty Nikon N80. Until today. Nikon recently lowered the price on the D70S to the point I was willing to take the plunge.  I now have the gleaming camera and […]

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June 17, 2006  |  Comments  |  Tweet  |  Posted in Customer Focus, Photography

It All Starts At The Top

Funny take on how Microsoft would repackage the iPod. Quite different from Apple and pretty dead on. It brought back to mind a great write up on the differences in the presentation styles of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates on Presentation Zen. It all starts at the top. Update: Scoble announced that Microsoft actually created […]

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March 15, 2006  |  Comments  |  Tweet  |  Posted in Customer Focus

Bad Mail Day

Yesterday was a bad mail day.  For some reason Apple Mail was grinding to a halt.  I have a PowerBook G4.  Since it is a laptop I purchased AppleCare.  It paid for itself as the hard drive went bad.  After messing around on their support site and in the forums I called AppleCare and they […]

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March 10, 2006  |  Comments  |  Tweet  |  Posted in Customer Focus