Posted in General Discussion on August 30, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Posted in General Discussion on August 30, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Continuing on with last night’s post, I decided that before I got up today, I would force myself to lay in bed until I could come up with a name that I liked. I came up with a name that utilizes acronyms that have meaning to me, and tried to make the word sound cool. Here is what I came up with:
ideaFLiTE or idea.F.L.i.T.E (see pic below for a very unprofessional logo I mocked up)
The meaning behind the name is: finding ideas that will allow for a lifestyle the embodys Freedom, Leadership, Inspiration, Trust, Entrepreneurship. (ideaflite.com is not taken yet)
See if you can come up with any names you like based on some acronyms that represent things that we believe in. Here is an incomplete list of some ideas.
-Chris
Posted in General Discussion on August 29, 2008| Leave a Comment »
It’s late, I’m tired and I’m in an introspective mood while I am sitting here pondering.
While I have been pondering on the idea of a coming up with a good website name, I have thought a little deeper in what a meaningful company name should consist of. Not a short term business name, but rather a long term name for a holding company that will create, develop, and sell multiple multi-million dollar businesses. While we are brainstorming, we might as well factor in everything and get it right the first time if possible. While my post on $23 Million equaling happiness sounds great, I have to remind myself that it is not always wise to set a monetary target. I believe that it should first begin by defining the kind of lifestyle that we want to live, then by finding projects that we love and are passionate about. A company name should be a constant reminder of the end goal. That is one thing I really like about Collar Free’s name, it’s about a lifestyle. And Jimmy really seems to live it too, I haven’t heard him talk much about money. But then again, I haven’t spent a whole lot of time with him either.
So, what I am thinking is that a good name should represent the following qualities:
It is likely that I am forgetting some things here, but this is a good start. To boil this down further, it comes down to what Guy Kawasaki calls a “Mantra”. If we can define a general [lifestyle] mantra for a company that will weather many storms and see many business ideas come to fruition, I think name will follow shortly after. A mantra should be something that we can look back on 10, 20 and even 30 years and believe the mantra still applies at that point in time.
I wanted to put my thoughts into words, and there they are. Tomorrow after I have been tailgating for several hours and hit the point of obnoxiousness, I’ll begin a brainstorming session and put those thoughts down, haha. Then I can come back and compare notes.
Posted in General Discussion on August 29, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Posted in General Discussion, Inspiration on August 29, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Oh, and in the same article, they state that money CAN buy happiness…
It may not be comforting to folks who aren’t minting cash, but the rich really are different. “There’s no group in America that’s happier than the wealthy,” says Taylor, of the Harrison Group. Roughly 70 percent of millionaires say that money”created” more happiness for them,he notes. Higher income also correlates with higher ratings in life satisfaction, according to a new study by economists at the Wharton School of Business. But it’s not necessarily the Bentley or Manolo Blahniks that lead to bliss. “It’s the freedom that money buys,” says Betsey Stevenson, coauthor of the Wharton study.
Concomitantly, rates of depression are lower among the wealthy, according to the Wharton study, and the rich tend to have better health than the rest of the population, says James Smith, senior labor economist at the Rand Corporation. (In fact, health and happiness are as closely correlated as wealth and happiness, Smith says.) The wealthy even seem to smile and laugh more often, according to the Wharton study, to say nothing of getting treated with more respect and eating better food. “People experience their day very differently when they have a lot of money,” Stevenson says.
Posted in General Discussion, Resources, Start-Up on August 28, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Posted in General Discussion, Ideas & Brainstorms on August 27, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Posted in General Discussion on August 27, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Found this in an AP article this morning. The interesting number that jumped off the page is that sales in the BRIC countries are growing at 10x the rate of the US. Dell has changed it’s marketing strategy to capitalize on the growth potential abroad. The opportunity for us in the tech space continues to grow worldwide…
Dell, based in Round Rock, Texas, broke with its usual development and marketing strategy for its latest products, Felice said.
“We used to design products for global requirements and distribute the same product globally,” he said. “In this situation, we started with talking to emerging country customers, designing a product for emerging countries, and our initial launch of the product is only in emerging countries. That’s a big departure in our strategy.”
The new Dell models were created by a Shanghai design center set up to focus on emerging markets, Felice said.
The move reflects a growing focus by global computer, automobile, consumer goods and other companies on creating products for increasingly prosperous customers in China, India and other emerging economies.
Prices for the new Dell Vestro notebooks will start at 3,299 yuan ($475) and for the desktop PCs at 2,999 yuan ($440).
Dell and rivals Hewlett-Packard Co., Taiwan-based Acer Inc. and China’s Lenovo Group are expanding aggressively in emerging economies as sales growth in the United States and other developed markets slows.
Dell’s first-quarter sales in China, India, Russia and Brazil — markets known collectively as BRIC — grew by 58 percent, about 10 times the U.S. rate, Felice said. He said Dell expects 20-30 percent annual growth in those markets in coming years.
-Chris
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Sources:
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080827/china_dell_cheap_computers.html
Posted in General Discussion, Resources on August 26, 2008| Leave a Comment »
IdeaFLITE 
Potential Grows in the Wireless Apps Marketplace
Posted in GiPS, Inspiration, News & Commentary on August 28, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Going back to the theme of cell phones becoming an ever more versatile tool, there is more good news in the wireless applications marketplace. What the industry lacks is a unversal marketplace for Wireless Applications. Sure, T-Mobile is rolling out their own version, Apple created the AppStore, and BlackBerry has a store of their own, etc. But, there is no univeral, easy way to download, purchase, rate and review applications across the many different wireless phone Operating Systems and Wireless Carriers. This has caused a very slow emergence of companies such as Tapulous that focus directly on this market.
The player that may solve this problem is….you guessed it, Google. The advent of their new wireless OS, Android, will pave a nice path for Android Market into the wireless space. Android Market will be open to any and all developers. The downside that I can see as of now is that the open platform (meaning their is no approval committee like Apple’s AppStore) may result in all kinds of garbage being released, leaving good quailty applications buried in the mess. But, none the less, this will be a great step forward towards creating a more univeral meduim for Wireless Applications to be released.
THE POTENTIAL:
This is another positive for Project GiPS. The more paths that GiPS has to the marketplace the better. In my initial estimation, GiPS could be designed for all platforms, desktop, wireless, or any other handheld with internet access — obviously with cell phones being the target market here.
Here is a quick excerpt from an article on Engadget:
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