by james
on February 17, 2012
in Building Stuff, Entrepreneurship, Lean, Tools
I am using (and highly recommend) a great tool for performing usability testing — UsabilityHub.com. It enables three (3) types of usability tests: Sign up is free and you can even earn test karma by performing test for others. We’re using it extensively at Cospace, GroupCharger, [...]
by james
on January 18, 2012
in Entrepreneurship, Life, People
Like thousands of sites around the country and world, my blog and my coworking company website (Cospace) are going dark here in about 2 hours. It’s a very small gesture to a very large problem — government interference with free enterprise. Stand up for free enterprise by watching this short video, get informed and express [...]
by james
on January 15, 2012
in Building Stuff, Education, Entrepreneurship, People
If you don’t think things are changing – FAST! – in education take a look at TeamTreehouse, Skillshare, OpenStudy, and a host of other social-infused education startups. We have a couple brewing ourselves at Cospace that you’ll see more of 2012. It makes you wonder what higher education is thinking (or not rethinking) right now: “Many [...]
by james
on January 5, 2012
in Building Stuff, Education, Entrepreneurship, Life, People
This is such a powerful story from Cameron Herold, a lifelong entrepreneur from a family of entrepreneurs. Regardless of what you do for a living (and we’re all different from head to toe), stop trying to fit your round self into that square peg. Figure out what motivates you, what you’re made of, what you [...]
by james
on January 1, 2012
in Life, People
Happy New Year! Please let me know if you need help building your business, product, or community. Cheers! James @GroupCharger @Cospace
by james
on August 14, 2011
in Tools
++ Click Image to Enlarge ++ Source: Facebook: The Future of Marketing
by james
on August 13, 2011
in Building Stuff, People
Been busy all summer @CapitalFactory building our company @GroupCharger Inc and products like @AlumniCharger and (soon) @CampaignCharger. Also, I’ve continued to speak and publish about lean business building @Worksody and @Cospace.
by james
on April 13, 2011
in Education, Entrepreneurship
…especially in economic development. I find the current debate between Peter Thiel (We’re in a higher-ed bubble) and the “elites in education” and their supporters (Oh no we’re not!) fascinating, revealing and highly entertaining (the satirist in me is loving every last word). Per usual, when you are in an argument framed by strong opinions on [...]
by james
on April 3, 2011
in Entrepreneurship, People
Over the weekend, I came across the following video from the 2011 Conference on Entrepreneurship. On it, Greg Sands of Sutter Hill Ventures speaks at length with Matthew Monahan of Inflection and Terry Austin of Guardian Analytics. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UElfyu4n6mQ] Besides a rich dialog in and around lean product development, startups, Series A, B, and C financing [...]
by james
on March 23, 2011
in Entrepreneurship, People
(actually, just Julian Smith’s character) Run! That is, unless a) you really don’t like waffles, or b) you really don’t mind squabbling over equity.