App Store Meets The Liquor Store

October 27th, 2009 - 1 Comment

liquor-store-app-storeRecently I visited a liquor store, which had an overwhelming amount of choices. A paralyzing amount of choices that leaves most visitors frozen in their tracks and forgetting why they are there in the first place. I know I was frozen in my …

Sea of Apps: Application Marketing

October 23rd, 2009 - No Comments

app-wallThe explosive popularity of Apple’s App Store and iPhone Apps has created an unprecedented flood of mobile digital products. I’ve lost count of the amount of times I’ve heard the phrase “there’s an app for that”. With the huge rush to build apps …

Twitter Powered Serendipity

October 20th, 2009 - 2 Comments

squirrel Usually the best things that happen in my life and business are unexpected. These unexpected things are called serendipity. Whether it’s connecting with someone whom under normal circumstances I would never meet, to learning a new technique from a world far removed …

We’re Live! 10 Ways You Can Help.

August 22nd, 2009 - 3 Comments

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First I want to thank everyone for the huge props on our game. The response has been overwhelming. We’re already working on improvements and new features. Some of the improvements you’ll see in an upcoming release waiting on approval at Apple right now include way faster load times, several …

Cornhole All-Stars Launch Party

July 16th, 2009 - No Comments

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Poker and the Startup Entrepreneur

May 6th, 2009 - 4 Comments

poker-startupI love poker and consider myself a life long student of the game. Oddly, I don’t think of poker as “gambling”, but then again I don’t think of being an entrepreneur as gambling. Many do. I see the real gamble as not playing …

Social Cornhole Job Opportunity

April 30th, 2009 - 4 Comments

cornhole-all-stars-helpImagine getting paid to play cornhole and drink beer. Few other summer jobs have “drinking” as part of the job description. Well that’s definitely part of the ahem…. “job” for social media reporters who will work with our iPhone game development studio JUFTi …

Cornhole All-Stars: Making an iPhone Game

April 10th, 2009 - 17 Comments

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My buddy, messenger extraordinaire and restauranteur, Chuck Hootman and I have come together to form an iPhone game company. The name of our company is JUFTi pronounced (Joof Tea). We’re getting close to launching our first …

Ditch the Pitch, JIMMY

March 11th, 2009 - 6 Comments

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An assumption can be made by the public when a business takes up social personas on Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, etc.. That assumption is “pay attention to me and buy my stuff”. Lots of it. The problem is that that communication tone and …