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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 never [...]
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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 an invoice in [...]
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TRMS at MinneDemo
Join the TRMS development team for a night of cool tech and free beer at MinneDemo, the Twin Cities’ premier technology demo and networking event, this Thursday, May 7th at 7pm.
We’ll be one of the ten presenters this time around, and we’ll be giving a demonstration of Zeplay (PDF), our new instant replay video server [...]
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Andrew Starks’s Simulated Worldwide Operational Computing Power Index (ASSWOCPI)
John Montagu was an accomplished person. In his lifetime he held various posts in English government. He was First Lord of Admiralty three times (accused of extreme incompetence the third time), an ambassador to the Dutch Republic, staged musical performances at his estate and was the heel in this famous exchange between himself and John [...]
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Computers and the Internet Will Always Be Slow: A Case For Starks’ Law
If you’re a nerd, you know Moore’s Law, which states that the number of transistors that can cheaply be placed on an integrated circuit doubles every 2 years. Gordon Moore, in his 1965 paper, was more right than he knew. It turns out that his law would become a predictor for not only the number [...]
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TRMS Sponsors Local Twin Cities Tech Events
One of the (many!) things I enjoy about working at Tightrope is the fact that we’re located in the Twin Cities; home of the Twins, the Guthrie Theater, the Mall of America, and, although perhaps not as well known, home to an incredible technology community.
Today I’m happy to share that TRMS is doing its part [...]
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TRMS Labs
The development team at Tightrope is excited to announce the availability of TRMS Labs, a new website to house our open source projects and utilities.
For the site’s launch, we have three projects available:
Cablecast SuperCopy: A plugin for our Cablecast automation system to duplicate a day’s schedule far out into the future.
Carousel RDA Tester: A sample [...]
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Behind the Scenes: “The Key and the Portal”
Amber and I recently completed a short that played at the ACM conference in Washington DC. Please visit our webpage to view the movie.
Short Synopsis: In the spirit of a graphic novel – a 1930s detective is stuck in a futuristic world, unable to comprehend the power and efficiency of modern technology. [...]
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In review: Still in love after the honeymoon
So, I’ve had my Macbook Air for a few months now and I still love it! I actually had to do some maintenance on my wife’s Dell the other day and i couldn’t believe how bad the keyboard was. It felt like I was using an old computer from the 80’s. The feel of the [...]
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Part IV: Starting Your Own Business In Less Than 3600 Words