TweetWish I hadn’t missed this event. Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook) says to only hire young employees: “Young people just have simpler lives. We may not own a car. We may not have family.” In the absence of those distractions, he says, you can focus on big ideologies. He added, “I only own a mattress.” Later: “Simplicity [...]

TweetThese are some hand-picked ideas from my Techquila Shots vault that I think are the best and most practical (given the anticipated budget) for Ringside Startup. Please contribute to Ringside Startup if you’d like to see the journey of one of these ideas turn into an actual business — and hear the guidance of seasoned [...]

Tweet I’m excited to announce the launch of Ringside Startup! The gist of the website is that I’m raising $20,000 from readers/sponsors — to enlighten everyone’s entrepreneurship education. With the contributions, I’m going to launch a web start-up (one of the Techquila Shots ideas) and blog the entire journey. I have a bunch of advisors [...]

Tweet10 Twitter application ideas — with or without their API are below. Be sure to throw some Google AdSense around any of these ideas to get a little monetization out of your project. digg interface — allow people to vote up their favorite twitters (which sometimes are favorite quotes or breaking news items). Mash ebay’s [...]

TweetAs of now, Twitter is mostly used by the techies. But once this thing hits the MySpace crowd, I think it’s going to explode even bigger. People like to quickly notify the world what they’re doing — that’s what Twitter enables you to do. News is breaking via Twitter, faster than news blogs. But how [...]

TweetAs a child, you learn that if you touch the hot burner, you’ll get burned — and definitely mentally scarred, if not also physically scarred. The same is true in starting a business — most times, if you do something and you get burned, you’re scarred for life and won’t ever repeat that mistake. Sometimes [...]

TweetRingside Startup has officially launched. Here are the basics on this endeavor: I’m raising $20,000 in reader/sponsor contributions to launch a web start-up. Contributor participation entitles you to vote on actual business decisions — the first of which will be which idea that I’ve exposed via Techquila Shots will be the web start-up I build [...]

TweetThis post got me thinking about how you could integrate IM into blogs. Currently, if people communicate about a topic/post, they post a comment. Almost in real-time, others can be alerted of the new comments if they have the RSS Comments feed for the blog — or if they are using CoComment, or my blog [...]

TweetAvid Techquila Shots reader (and commenter! hint, hint) Colin Dowling had an idea that spurred from my Personalized Printed Magazines and Catalogs idea. (FYI – This is what I always hope for when I make these idea posts — that it spurs thought in you as a reader and you get some other new idea. [...]

TweetThere is one main idea here, which I take in two different directions: magazines and catalogs. People still like having a printed material to read or browse through — and I don’t see this going away for quite some time. The catalog idea relies around peer-to-peer (P2P) product recommendations. I’ve thought for years during the [...]