Honoring Those Who Serve and Sacrifice with Help Starting A Business

Posted by techventuregeek in Events, Resource Organizations, Startup PhilosophyMay 31st, 2010 | 1 Comment

Earlier this year, I posted a tweet about a dinner I was attending as a volunteer mentor to the Veteran’s Entrepreneur Program. There were several inquiries after my tweet, and I promised to tell you more.

So today, Memorial Day, I wanted to mention this program again and provide some links for those who might know a disabled veteran who could benefit.

VEP 2010 Delegates (From the OSU VEP Program Website)

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Review: Intervals for Project Management and Time Accounting

Posted by techventuregeek in Online Service Reviews, Software Reviews, Tools We UseMay 30th, 2010 | 1 Comment

At R7 Solutions, in addition to GeoRoom, GeoIntelis (and soon to be announced GeoDomis), a good percentage of what we do is to provide professional services.

We provide software engineering, business process design and strategic IT consulting.  Just like any professional services firm, that means keeping close track of projects, tasks and hours.

And we’re a highly technical company selling business automation to our clients, so we hate doing things on paper when a better option is available. And for project management and hours accounting, we’ve tried them all.

Oh, boy, have we tried them all:

(We also looked at WorkEtc.com, DeskAway.com and BaseCamp.com.)

Finally, in 2009, we tried Intervals.

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