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Maintenance Releases for Carousel 6.0 and Cablecast 4.9
In addition the fabulous release of Carousel 6.1, we’ve got some house keeping releases for you as well! Carousel 6.0.5 For those of you that do not have a Silver or Gold Assurance contract, you can get some nice updates to your Carousel 6.0 system. Here are the details: Resolved an issue where Carousel’s content would [...]
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Carousel 6.1 Is Now Shipping!
Carousel 6.1 is hot off of the presses! Congratulations must go to our hard working Carousel Product Team. They knocked it out of the park with this one! :)
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Part IV: Starting Your Own Business In Less Than 3600 Words
In last week’s post, we covered pressure, partners and niches. This week, we’ll wrap things up with some observations and final thoughts… Observation 1: The World Is Infinitely Large We are more connected than ever, which often leads us all to think about a shrinking planet. The planet is not shrinking. In fact, it’s expanding. [...]
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Part III: Starting Your Own Business In Less Than 3600 Words
In last week’s post, we covered the depressing topics of failure and venture capitalists. We continue this series by talking about pressure, partners and niches. Step 4: Along with Failure, Get to Know Pressure As we illustrated in parts of Step 3, you need pressure. Having a wife and kids is no excuse to not [...]
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Part II: Starting Your Own Business In Less Than 3600 Words
Last week I started this four part series on starting your business. I talked about the importance of being unemployable and becoming an unreasonable person. Hmm…. This week, we’ll continue the happy thoughts with… Step 3: Get to Know and Love Failure The only lessons that you ever truly learn come from failure. Since you’ve [...]
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Part I: Starting Your Own Business In Less Than 3600 Words
A friend of mine asked about starting his own business. All he really wanted to know was how to register a business name, which I thought as odd. Our approach to starting a business was: Sell the product Make the product Deliver the product, fixing it as you try to get it running. Make up [...]
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An Open Letter to PEG: Tightrope’s Commitment to Open Source Software (OSS)
Tightrope has been involved in open source projects for several years. What are we up to now and where are we going with that effort?
Over Selling and Economic Profit
In established markets, everyone gets paid pretty much what they are worth. Marketing can skew this and there are always temporary exceptions on specific sales, but when you're talking about putting cables in walls and hanging monitors in public areas, there is profit, but generally no economic profit. In theory and on average, one dollar less and I won't send my tech out to your place to do the work. One dollar more and I'm ahead of the game. We all want to be ahead of the game.
Tightrope Appoints Eric Henry as CEO and Jim Morical as Chief Business Development Officer
JJ and I are happy to formally announce that Eric Henry and Jim Morical from the audio visual manufacturers representation firm Kodo James have joined Tightrope Media Systems as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Chief Business Development Officer (CBDO), respectively. Eric and Jim, through Kodo James, have represented Tightrope Media Systems in the upper Midwest [...]
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Tightrope Closed Next Monday, August 29th and Limited on the 30th