THE DREAM IN ACTION

Keep good company Just as your Thanksgiving day will likely be memorable because of the friends and family that you have around you, it is critical that you have the right people around you in your startup. The most expensive and most valuable asset in any startup is the people that make up the company. [...]

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When people think about a “one liner” they usually think of pick up lines. I do. But, pick up lines rarely work – I heard. You bust out a one liner at a bar and you’ll probably end up slapped or alone. If you want to prove me wrong next time you’re at the bar [...]

A few months back ActionsTalk spotlighted Daniel Brusilovsky of Teens in Tech. Daniel is a young podcaster who also works at Qik out in the valley. He’s recently launched his company Teens in Tech (TiT, haha) that helps young bloggers and podcaster launch their own, and hosts them. It’s an inevitably growing addressable market and [...]

“So maybe a recession is a good time to start a startup. It’s hard to say whether advantages like lack of competition outweigh disadvantages like reluctant investors. But it doesn’t matter much either way. It’s the people that matter. And for a given set of people working on a given technology, the time to act [...]

Gmail has always catered to the tech elite and now it appears they are catering to my mother. (She loves the colors!) Gmail followed their iGoogle lead and added themes to Gmail! Apparently, this has been one of the number one requests from Gmail users. Personally, I’m still rockin the traditional Gmail theme because I [...]

The online market place will live and live and live. The same ones might not always exist but the concept will always live on the web because of the value that this type of a site adds to its chosen industry; it’s enormous. These are the 5 reason why the online marketplace is hot and [...]

Bottom up is the way to grow anything these days. Construction workers have know this for…well, forever. Surprisingly the idea of bottom up growth is just getting around to startups, politicians, and corporate America… probably in that order. 37 Signals When Jason Fried, founder of 37 Signals was first building his company he was inspired [...]

Image by graves.ryan via FlickrI’ve just finished re-reading the ‘The Art of Bootstrapping‘ chapter in The Art of the Start and 3 main focuses stood out to me. I want to elaborate on why they stood out to me and why they are the most important underlying themes in this chapter. If you’ve not yet [...]

A good friend of mine Dave Cohn (who has also contributed to ActionsTalk) launched a project that he has been working on for 6+ months this week. Spot.Us is coined as community funded reporting and is a result of a grant Dave received from the Knight News Challenge. Dave is a very accomplished journalist having [...]

As SocialDreamium works to build a customer base with both the service side of our business and the product side of our business we will use the philosophies shared here by CEO of 37Signals Jason Fried. I truly believe in having examples that you follow and learn from 37Signals will be that example for SocialDreamium.

I know that every blog on the planet is going to have a post about how Google adds video chat but I thought that if its something that interests me and its something that will change the tools I use to communicate on the web I would still write about it. Bear with me… Google’s [...]

Today I was introduced to a new product that could change the way feedback is given and received in the workplace. After writing about what is important to Gen Y employees and how employers are going to have to respond to these changes, the founder of Rypple (pronounced “ripple”) reached out to talk about their [...]

Image by Cia de Foto via FlickrWhen I worked at my consulting job in Chicago about 2 years ago I had a conversation with my boss about how Gen Y will affect the workforce and how our attitudes towards career will affect growing businesses. I’ve had my opinion about it for quite sometime but it [...]

Today I watched a short TED video of an incredible software demonstration from Anand Agarawala, the co-creator of a new desktop interface called BumpTop. He goes on to explain his dissatisfaction with the standard point and click desktop interface that “windows” has instilled into our expectations. “You can sex it up, with a Mac” Anand [...]