April 2008
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Picking up steam
In the last two weeks we have singularly focused on getting the platform in front of innovative companies and individuals. The result has been positive and helped us quite a bit in defining the packaging of the platform. Couple key takeaways: Users do not want ANOTHER platform. The psychological barrier to entry is really quiet great because it adds another layer of action. Traditional tools like...
March 2008
7 posts
Prepping for a busy week.
Things are beginning to kick on full cylinders for our small team. Couple memorable recaps from this past week. Hung out with guys and gals at Shoeboxed.com - It was really quite energizing to see another startup at work and an inspiration for us to aspire towards. Went to my first Refresh the Triangle meetup at Ogilvy - Talked to some very cool RoR guys. Met up with a friend from Penn and had...
Looking for kick-ass RoR Developers →
Shoot me an email: rachit.shukla[at]ideabahn.com
New User Interface
After receiving good feedback from our friends at Square 1 and McKinney. We are incorporating some of the key responses we’ve been hearing over the last couple weeks. Quick Entry for ideas Optimized colors - projectors, different screen warmths tend to affect this Redesign UI for quick accessAll of these things are being packaged in the UI and we are excited to unveil the slick desgin. So...
Using SQLite3 for Rails on MediaTemple (dv) →
Daniel our Tech Ninja shares his knowledge of Rails. It’s a bit technical, but these are the creative things you need to deploy to get all the different technologies working together harmoniously.
February 2008
9 posts
Entrepreneur & Social Entrepreneur Meetup
Daniel and I attended our first meetup last night here in Chapel Hill. I’m glad to report the the young entrepreneurial community in the Triangle is definitely growing. It was a good chance to meet up with old friends and reminisce about years past. Certainly a pleasure to hear and see what other people are working. I am definitely going to be pushing on this front in the coming months,...
Development Update
Daniel and Pete are hard at work to put the final modules in place for the platform. The base itself works very well and I’ve been using it in as many occassions as possible to test how easy it would be live capture the ideation process. So far the results have been good. But I’m excited to share with guys and gals the platform after the bells and whistles have been added. So sign up...
Book: My Startup Life
Most books geared towards startup culture/life are written with an older mindset. Ben’s take is particularly insightful because there’s a lot to absorb and overcome when you’re a young entrepreneur.
Duke's IP Conference
I had the opportunity to attend Duke’s Second Annual Conference on Intellectual Property yesterday. I was there for a Panel on “Impediments to Technology Markets: What are they, and what can firms and government do?” and a keynote on “Collaborative Innovation”. The panel was quite interesting and insightful. There were so many good ideas being thrown around I decided to...
The Problem with Social Media Marketing →
Joshua at Bokardo (cool name!) wrote an excellent post on how companies believe that by using social tools such as social networks (facebook, digg etc) they can build buzz around their product/service thereby leading to greater adoption. The main argument is that this implies causality. When in fact as we have all experienced social tools are highly organic and buzz can only be created when your...
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Reductive Innovation →
Very interesting post on how typically when one thinks of innovation we constantly think of adding features. Whereas the opposite, reducing the number of features can be innovative as well. Something to think about in the IdeaBahn platform and certainly not very hard to implement. Collaborative decision making tool to cut the fat from your ideas for the win!
Wooo IdeaBahn is on tumblr!
Hopefully this is going to be a good replacement for Wordpress.