“The best laid plans of mice and men often go astray.” – Robert Burns Well, here we are 34 hours from New Year’s. And neither of my projects are ready to launch. On the work front (the re-launch of www.buytough.com), we’ve had quite a bit go astray: First, the designer delivered the finished design about 6 weeks behind schedule. She’s…
Category: web development
Rekindling the flame: the love of startups.
This weekend I took time off from my “side project” to participate in the Atlanta Startup Weekend. For those of you unfamiliar with the event. It was essentially 100+ entrepreneurs with varying skills (technical, marketing, design) getting together to see how many “startups” they could start in a weekend – 54 hours (Friday 6pm – Sunday 9pm). I signed up…
Building a Blueprint – Development Plan
“Failing to plan is planning to fail.” – Alan Lakein Just because I am not going to write a full business plan, does not mean I am not going to have a plan. In fact, I’m going to have a plan for both the development of the site and the marketing site. First, the development plan. If I was developing…
Hello world!
Launch is about taking an idea for a web site or web application and making it a reality. I am currently working on two ideas: the re-launch of www.buytough.com as a next generation ecommerce site. the launch of an idea I’ve been playing with for a new social networking / dating site. This blog will chronicle the steps I take to…