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The Wedding Lens 2010 Refresh

Now that summer is here and wedding season is in full effect, I wanted to take a brief moment to announce some recent changes to The Wedding Lens.
New Design
Just to keep things fresh, we worked with Brad, our designer at Vanilla Green, to give the site a bit of a layout facelift.  Many of the [...]

4 Years Ago…

It was more than 4 years ago that John and I quit our corporate jobs at Microsoft and HP to start our Two-Bit Operation.  My how time flies (or does it).  It’s interesting to think back to what you can learn in 4 years of college vs. 4 years of running your own business – [...]

PickFu: Now with more questions!

A few days ago we asked the supportive community over at Hacker News for some feedback on PickFu. We were extremely pleased to see that the overall sentiment was positive and that there were other entrepeneurs out there who have the same need for quicky and cheap polling.  In the spirit of some of the [...]

Announcing PickFu: Cheap & Instant Market Research

As an entrepreneur, there are many times when you want to get some feedback on something you’re working on or planning to work on.  It might be the name of your new company, the strategic direction of your products, or even just different versions of ad copy or images.  Sure you can annoy your friends [...]

Food Fights – a vital part of every birthday!

Happy birthday Two-Bit Operation! Today marks the one-year anniversary of our last day at our previous jobs. It seems like just last week that, wide-eyed and full of boundless optimism, we started the company and this blog. What difference a year makes! Our eyes aren’t as wide anymore (fatigue-induced ), [...]