I read a good review on the strengths and weaknesses of some of the Best Office Software from BusinessWeek July 3, 2006 edition. Here are the results:
(B) Brand - (U) Users - (C) Cost - (+) Pluses - (-) Minuses
(B) Microsoft Office (U) 400 million (C) $399 (+) pc standard, 1000s of features (-) Expensive, [...]
I had an opportunity recently to learn more about the CEDO Incubator and Brad Whittaker. What a great way for the City of Orem to foster entrepreneurship. I noted several things that CEDO is doing very well at:
Innexpensive Office Space - CEDO offers office space to early stage entrepreneurs at a very low price
Mentorship Program [...]
I recently read a good article on Google and Nine Factors of Innovation from BusinessWeek June 19th 2006. The article talked a lot about Innovation (about time, I predicted this would be the word of the year in the business world in a previous blog). BusinessWeek devoted a lot of this issue to innovation (more [...]
I went to the June 2006 Utah Bloggers Conference at the Miller Innovation Center and it was great. Ryan Money and Phil Burns created the event, and I counted over 100 or so people who attended. Besides the free Pizza, drinks and t-shirt which I always love, the panel talked about some great things, I [...]
Great discussions today with a Funding Panel at UVEF June 8 2006. Panel members included Mike Hennessy of Wasatch Venture Fund, Damon Kirchmeier of UTFC, Curtis Toone of Sorenson Capital, Tim Hunt of LingoTek, and Kevin Nethercott from lignup. Here are some take aways:
Funding Factors
A lot of it has to do with timing, just cause [...]
Thanks to cnn.com for this one on the Top Places for Auto Thefts. The number of stolen cars each year has gone down for 2 years now (probably due to the growth in the economy). But if you live in these places, watch your car:
Modesto, CA
Las Vegas/Paradise, NV
Stockton, CA
Phoenix/Mesa/Scottsdale, AZ
Visialia/Porterville, CA
Seattle/Tacoma/Bellevue, WA
Sacramento/Arden-Arcade/Roseville, CA
San Diego/Carlsbad/San Marcos, [...]
Over the years I have often wondered how to value the companies I have been involved with. I have relied mainly on the Accounting people to give me helps, but what if I wanted to know just ball park numbers?
Inc. came out with a Business Valuation Guide in the Jan 2006 edition that has worked [...]
Fortune reports 42 U.S. States with Surplus Budgets during the 2006 fiscal year. The total surplus for these states is expected to be 28.9 billion. This is a huge improvement for all 50 states which in 2000 had a combined 265 billion in debt.
I have been reading lately on the word of the year - Innovation - The New Core Competency. This has been the main focus at many world business conferences, and also featured articles in Inc., BusinessWeek, and Fortune.
Knowledge used to be the core competency, but knowhow like software creation, programming, accounting, legal work, engineering [...]
Cool Product - Personalized Photo Stamps at stamps.com. For a $5-$10 fee above normal postage, you can send U.S. Postage with your custom picture on it. What a cool idea. I doubt I would do it, but hey I haven’t sent my Grandma a letter for a while and it might be a good way [...]
