Dinarius = digital interest
3 January 2009

How Would I Start Up A Start Up Differently?

For months now, I’ve been involved with a project that has too many chefs in the kitchen. The truth of the matter is, it seems that too many times (as I’ve read other VC blogs and start up stories) there’s a good chance that there are waiters pretending to be chefs, in the kitchen.

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28 May 2008

Web 2.0 Bubble Trembling.

The danger of Web 2.0’s collapse first became clear to me with an unpublished article entitled My Dear John To Web 2.0 In it are examinations of the mentality that has returned Mystery Meat Navigation to the forefront of site design. The height of this absurdity is Microsoft’s desire to be the first Operating System that the next one BILLION computer users see. In a move that is completely at odds with this welcoming ease-of-use is Windows Vista’s utter lack of a “Start” button. Only if you already have familiarity with the product do you know that the Windows Logo is actually the old Start button.

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19 May 2008

Starting A Start-up. Terminology.

Any search for information begins with knowing the right terminology. When trying to start a start-up and attract investors so they provide Seed Money, Venture Capital or VC, you have to show them a few things too. A good idea just isn’t enough when dealing with people who deal with numbers. In walking slowly through this briar patch of trials and errors, we’ve stumbled on to Brent Collins who is more than willing to share advice about starting a start-up that’s nearly one-on-one.

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