Part III: Starting Your Own Business In Less Than 3600 Words
In last week’s post, we covered the depressing topics of failure and venture capitalists. We continue this series by talking about pressure, partners and niches.
Step 4: Along with Failure, Get to Know Pressure
As we illustrated in parts of Step 3, you need pressure. Having a wife and kids is no excuse to not start a [...]
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Part II: Starting Your Own Business In Less Than 3600 Words
Last week I started this four part series on starting your business. I talked about the importance of being unemployable and becoming an unreasonable person. Hmm….
This week, we’ll continue the happy thoughts with…
Step 3: Get to Know and Love Failure
The only lessons that you ever truly learn come from failure. Since you’ve never [...]
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Part I: Starting Your Own Business In Less Than 3600 Words
A friend of mine asked about starting his own business. All he really wanted to know was how to register a business name, which I thought as odd. Our approach to starting a business was:
Sell the product
Make the product
Deliver the product, fixing it as you try to get it running.
Make up an invoice in [...]
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TRMS Website Relaunch!
If you’re reading this, you’ve probably noticed that the Tightrope website has been relaunched with a brand new design.
This project has been in the works for a long time, and we’re incredibly excited to finally flip the switch and reveal it to the world!
So. What’s new?
New features
It’s much easier to find what Tightrope has to [...]
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An Open Letter to PEG: Tightrope’s Commitment to Open Source Software (OSS)
Tightrope has been involved in open source projects for several years. What are we up to now and where are we going with that effort?
Announcing Carousel 6.0
Tightrope Media Systems announces the release of Carousel 6.0, a major software update to the Carousel Digital Signage System. Carousel 6.0 includes a number of new features that improve the Template Editor used in the bulletin creation process, the utility of Alert Bulletins, and the functionality of the Remote Data Adapter.
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Over Selling and Economic Profit
In established markets, everyone gets paid pretty much what they are worth. Marketing can skew this and there are always temporary exceptions on specific sales, but when you're talking about putting cables in walls and hanging monitors in public areas, there is profit, but generally no economic profit. In theory and on average, one dollar less and I won't send my tech out to your place to do the work. One dollar more and I'm ahead of the game. We all want to be ahead of the game.
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Tightrope Topical Training Sessions
Join us next Thursday, December 17th at 3pm (Central) for our first of many Tightrope Topical Trainings. We’ll be discussing two main topics:
Weather bulletins in Carousel. We’ll cover how easy it is to create these bulletins, how to handle common problems that occur, and how to design bulletins that only show the current temperature [...]
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Fall ‘09 Channel Designs Now Available!
Fall ‘09 Collection
New to the Store this season:
Clean click for details
Fresh click for details
Opera click for details
Modern Lobby click for details
Examples of icons and templates included with every channel
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Part IV: Starting Your Own Business In Less Than 3600 Words