As you may have heard, Google has released a new calendaring service. If your are familiar with other calendaring applications such as iCal on the mac or Microsoft Outlook, you should be able to start using it with a relatively short learning curve. I was able to import my calendars from iCal with [...]
Posts under ‘Planning’
too late/early for a title…
It’s Friday at 5 am and we just wrapped up our second in-person working session, just in time to catch Justin’s ridiculously early flight. Like the first one in Chicago, this session lasted for two weeks, which is about the maximum amount of time you want to spend heads-down, 24/7 on a project to [...]
SCORE one for the team
Yesterday, I attended a workshop called “Basics of Going into Business” at the SCORE-Chicago office (located in the Citicorp Center above the Ogilvie Transportation Center in downtown Chicago). If you aren’t already familiar with SCORE SCORE, then check out their website. SCORE (Service Corps of Retired Executives) is a volunteer resource partner of [...]
A business plan - doing it for all the right reasons
There’s not a doubt in anyone’s mind that you need a sound business plan for a successful business. But, you shouldn’t go through the process of building and writing a business plan just because it’s another thing to check off the list. There are plenty (and I mean plenty!) of templates available on [...]
Envisioning your idea
So now that we had gone through all that process on picking the best idea, we were finally ready to jump in and start hacking away, secure that we were implementing the best idea we could think of. Right? Not quite. All we had was a one-sentence idea that we were excited about [...]
