A blog of entrepreneurship, technology, web, and other things that interest me.
Access the twitter bootstrap popover node
I’ve been struggling to find a way to reference the actual node that twitter’s bootstrap popover creates. Just do this:
Run your functional tests with ACLs
For whatever reason, we started getting the following errors when we moved our functional tests (using LiipFunctionalTestBundle) from MySQL to sqlite:
General error: 17 database schema has changed
To get around this, you can simply specify an alternate sqlite database to hold your ACL tables.
Company’s mojo stems from culture
I attended a great Webinar the other day, thanks to the fine folks at Rypple, by Chip Conley, founder of Joie de Vivre hotels. He provided a great framework for thinking about motivation based on Maslow’s hierarchy of needs,
What is my company worth?
Valuation seems to be one of the tougher questions to answer when starting up a new venture - especially if it is your first time.
Real estate agents, dying breed
I’ve finally sold my condo! In a down market, less than a month before Christmas, and without a real estate agent. What are my secrets to success?
Dealing deals like a dealer
Rumours are floating around today that Groupon has been bought by Google pegging a valuation around $2.5B. Not bad for a company that didn’t exist a few years ago. Groupon is interesting, in that it presents ridiculous deals that people and companies are clamouring to get involved with.
Make me look good
Want to earn some serious brand loyalty and advocacy? Make me look awesome to my friends.
Foursquare isn’t dead, its niche
A class mate blogged about why he thinks Foursquare is dead. I agree with much of what he says, that the “check-in” space is becoming exceptionally competitive and the big guys like Facebook and even Twitter could threaten their user base.
How much engagement is too much?
Twitter is fun for me. Certainly more interesting and useful than Facebook (and I’m eagerly looking forward to the ability to remove myself from those damn mass Facebook messages that I didn’t opt-in to). I like the casual, random, and brief conversations you can have with strangers and brands.
Vital Stats for B2B
After my interview with Andrew Spoeth earlier this week I started poking around for some interesting B2B marketing tidbits and didn’t have to go far.
