Being a founder 4 - Go to entrepreneurship events like Startup Weekend

I mentioned Startup Weekend in a couple of posts in this series, but I never really got into the details of how it actually worked for us. I promised an honest, nitty-gritty blog about starting up, so here are the details about how events like Startup Weekend can really change the course of your dream. [...]

Sign up at Intermz.com for our private beta

Sign up at Intermz.com to get access to our private beta when we release it!

Being a founder 3 - The pitch and the hunt

Prevailing startup philosophy is that the pitch is perhaps the most important tool you can have as an entrepreneur. It is responsible for generating interest and seeding adoption. Guy Kawasaki asks, How can you tell if an entrepreneur is pitching? His lips are moving.
I could not agree more. (Besides, who would disagree with Guy?)
However, what [...]

Being a founder 2 - Defining your target audience

One of the most oft repeated rules about starting a business is that you need to define your target audience–your customer–and that you need to define them very specifically. Instead of “people who need flashlights,” you might target “emergency workers who need portable, bright, durable flashlights.”
But what if, like many web services, your audience is [...]

Being a founder 1 - From one to many

How Intermz.com went from a one-person dream to an eight-person mission.

Blogging about being a web-startup founder

At an Intermz member’s suggestion, I’m going to start blogging about what it’s like being a web-startup founder–from the very first days to wherever we end up. I’ll share with you some of our stories of trials and tribulations and hopefully help you, the next Bill Gates, get your dream off the ground.
So check back [...]

IT and music

Are IT prone to be musicians–or visa versa?

Job specialization - boon or bane?

[First published at SQLServerCentral.com on 5-29-2008]
An article I recently read suggested that a reason employers are having a difficult time finding qualified IT employees might be the result of the narrow focus of the employer’s own requirements. This makes sense. As the number of different technologies and industries in which we specialize grows, it is [...]

Going into dark mode

Today, we put Intermz.com into dark mode so we can work on v2.0 and enocurage people to register to be early adopters. If you haven’t already, please sign up! If you do, you will get first notice on some cool stuff that will be coming very soon. Stay tuned…

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The Value of an MBA in IT

I recently read a Computer World article that cited a study touting the benefit of having an MBA in the IT industry. A two-year MBA degree would yield an average 8.2% increase in salary, as opposed to two years of extra experience, which would yield an average of 2.8%.
That sounds good. But the study, they [...]