I build things and organizations. Periodically, I ramble on about them here. See https://colopy.com for information about Colopy Ventures.
I build things and organizations. Periodically, I ramble on about them here. See https://colopy.com for information about Colopy Ventures.
Ximena now has a store on Etsy. Here’s how it came about… Ximena is my 7-year old daughter and was born at about the same time that Bronto was founded. In fact, in many ways, her life parallels Bronto’s history. When my wife Karalyn and I became pregnant with her, I significantly stepped out my […]
Hits not Home Runs …. that’s a common phrase spoken around the halls of Bronto. It speaks to our focus on day-to-day execution versus sky-in-pie schemes to serve our customers and grow the company. Plus it’s catchy. I was recently interviewed by Alice Bumgarner about this principle and how it applies to innovation. The interview […]
Wednesday night I spent judging the semi-finals of the Carolina Challenge. The Carolina Challenge is a startup competition hosted by the Kenan-Flagler Business School and pulls teams from the entire UNC community. The startups are broken into two groups — commercial and social. I judged three teams from the social side — startups with a […]
This week has been dominated with pricing and packaging. We are offering some exciting new pricing and edition offerings to our customers in February and I (along with others) have been hard at work nailing down the final details. It should be well worth it. More details to follow in the next few weeks. The […]
I was quoted in this morning’s News & Observer about software-as-a-service (SaaS) businesses. The article does a good job of summing up the basics of SaaS. Check it out. One of the most exciting things about the SaaS business model is how it benefits customers. Because switching costs are low, SaaS-based vendors compete on providing […]
This afternoon, while looking for a job description on my computer, I stumbled upon this article from an old Phi Beta Kappa newsletter that I had saved a year or so ago. After reading it the first time, I enjoyed it so much that I actually retyped it in from the printed newsletter. The article […]
"What’s in a name? That which we call a roseBy any other word would smell as sweet."–From Romeo and Juliet (II, ii, 1-2) Shakespeare was obviously not a technology marketer. I would argue that names do matter and that the name sets the tone for a company and its products. Would Apple be Apple if […]