http://blog.stevepoland.com web entrepreneur | obsessed music fan | b-lo forever! Wed, 10 Feb 2010 21:39:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If anyone is looking for some business/application ideas for using Twilio ... I have had some SMS & VXML ideas in the past. I think using SMS to send URLs to the user, so they can click and view things in their smartphone, is going to really come into play. Or ... http://blog.stevepoland.com/twilio-ideas-brainstorm-sms-voice-api/ Last week I was at the WNY Venture Association seminar on "Angel Investing in Western New York." Not the sexiest market, in particular not for web technology. But some interesting tidbits came out of it -- Ron Schreiber (Softbank Capital; Ingram-Micro co-founder) put some interesting nuggets out there. For VC ... http://blog.stevepoland.com/maipo-broken-roi-model-for-vcs/ You can read it, here. Enjoy! http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/15/twitter-facebook-amazon-affiliate-marketing/ Related posts:My Guest Post on Shoemoney: Gaming Google AdWords I did a guest post over on Shoemoney’s blog yesterday — “Gaming Google AdWords with Google redirects“....IDEA #61 – Music Affiliate JavaScript Blog Include A simple script that anyone could grab and put in the HEAD ... http://blog.stevepoland.com/guest-post-on-techcrunch-twitter-and-facebook-turn-everyone-into-an-affiliate-marketer/ I haven't looked at the API, but I see crazy potential of apps being built on-top of FourSquare. The one thing I REALLY WANT [and have for years], is, when I go to a restaurant.. I want to see what everyone that's ever been there rates as the best dishes; ... http://blog.stevepoland.com/foursquare-api-ideas/ Someone just asked me, I responded with the following in less than 2 minutes [possibly 1 minute]. What would you tell someone that asked how to evaluate his/her startup ideas? Evaluating ideas -- talk to people; tell them your idea; what problem does it solve. Great if it solves a problem ... http://blog.stevepoland.com/evaluating-startup-ideas/ This is saying a lot. If you know me, you know I likely have attended, on average, 2 concerts per month for the last 12 years of my life. Thus, nearly 300 concerts -- that doesn't really consider the nearly 50 acts that I see at various concert festivals (SXSW). I've ... http://blog.stevepoland.com/best-live-concert-ive-ever-been-to-edward-sharpe-the-magnetic-zeros/ Specifically I'm seeking a contract UX designer -- someone that can go through our app and make the usability better. As a quick task to see if you have the chops, how can you make the following 'reports/stats' page more usable? [This page basically breaks down stats for any plugin ... http://blog.stevepoland.com/any-ux-ui-gui-graphic-designers-out-there/ I gave this presentation last night at our third BarCampBuffalo. Sorry there's no audio (or some examples of my pencil mockups, or RFP spreadsheet): How To Startup! View more presentations. Related posts:BarCamp Buffalo #3 (May 4, 2009 @ 6:30PM) We’re trying something a little different this time — we’re going to have a ... http://blog.stevepoland.com/how-to-startup-not-being-a-programmer/ I received a question from someone that I thought was a good one: After doing some research and a lot of googling I´ve a lot of resources in different areas (customer development, project managment, agile development, business plans, etc). I feel frustrated trying to glue all this together in a practical order so that ... http://blog.stevepoland.com/start-up-roadmap/ With this recession and unemployment so high, there's likely a lot of people looking to start their own business. Hopefully one of these ideas of mine can provide some inspiration to just one of those people. I'm formerly a TechCrunch writer, a serial web entrepreneur, and an idea guy. I can't ... http://blog.stevepoland.com/100-web-start-up-business-ideas/