A start-up I co-founded with another UMM grad and 3rd grade teacher, Matt Hardy, was featured on Twin Cities Business Magazine’s Start Me Up blog. Check it out.

Lessons on standing out. Excellent examples: sliced break, soy milk, including great failed projects. This really builds on the Minnebar talk: Inspiring Passionate Users;what can I do to focus on the 1% of user base that are the opinion makers.

Quotes:

“We’re all in the fashion business now”

“Safe is risky”

“Remarkable” is the key work, it isn’t neat, it is remarkable, worth making a remark about.

Kidblog.org was featured today on Tech.MN, pretty sweet! Over the last several months Hardy and I have been working to make Kidblog.org. After attending Minnebar last month, it really got the startup juices flowing. Look for more startup news about Kidblog.org and our other venture: Classroom Placement (we need a better name).

Continuing the theme on pricing software. The start up is going very well. Next week will be very interesting, a very big moment. When we announce the new pricing model I’ll let you now how it works and send you a link to the site.

A short FREE ebook on pricing software.

After attending MinneBar this year, I’ve been much more interested in software startups and how to a real business going. I’m working right now with Hardy to get his product out and creating innovative pricing schemes to get the the start up going.

I’m a software hippie by heart. I always have been and probably always will be. I don’t like paying for inferior products and I definitely don’t like overpaying. I’d rather feel like I am a part of a community that is working together to make better tools and products.

This book is a quick read and well worth it if your thinking about pricing your product in a Web 2.0 world.