TCA Open Forum

Just found out about the Tech Coast Angels Open Forum [http://www.spreecast.com/channels/tca-open-forum], not sure why I didn't know about it before. Interesting interviews with the Angels of TCA. Worth checking out if you are interested in that sort of thing.…

FI Thoughts

As part of finishing the Founder Institute [http://fi.co], I posted my thoughts on the program on the sowedu Blog here [http://http://blog.sowedu.com/2013/09/02/founderInstituteWrapUp].…

Go Bucks

I finally made it to an Ohio State game today in The Horseshoe. It is my first game in the stadium since I graduated after the 2003 season. Here is a double Script Ohio as proof: It was great to go back. Hopefully they will come out to visit me…

Blogging on sowedu

The Founder Institute assignment this week included, among other things, blogging on our startup's industry. This is something I imagine most of us were doing in one way or another already. However, I find blogging as a corporate entity has a slightly different feel. Since I first started…

Ye Ole Linux Box

I'm playing with the old linux box tonight. It's a 7-year-old MacBook that couldn't run OSX anymore. It seems to handle Ubuntu well enough. Upgrading to 13.04 right now. We'll see if it ever boots up again after the install....…

Thoughts on NewsBlur

After the Google Reader demise announcement came out, I switched to NewsBlur, and I am glad I did for two reasons. First, it gives me greater insight into how each feed is working. I see which ones are dead every time I open the page, which lets me find where…

Demo is UP!

Woo hoo! The sowedu demo site is up. Go here: http://demo.sowedu.com/ It needs an amazing amount of work. However, now the fun can begin of tweaking and adding features. The base capability is ready.…

MVP Progress

Making some good progress on sowedu's MVP this weekend thanks to a couple long nights coding. Should have something presentable by tomorrow afternoon. In the process, I'm learning a lot about Ruby and Rails. My code is a nightmare at this point, but it's…