Granola head goes to 2.0Land By Lisa Suhay for The Virginian-Pilot, May 13, 2012 A couple of weeks ago I was a granola-headed mom of four who ran a free chess program and wrote mermaid books and stories. However, after accidentally attending an Apprentice-like competition called Start Norfolk, I am now Suhay 2.0. I “populate [...]
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By P.J. Jakovljevic for Technology Evaluation Centers, April 30, 2012 While Virginia might have seen its share of controversy over the recent laws on women’s reproductive rights, the region’s business and entrepreneurial climate is undisputed owing to vibrant enterprise applications vendors. One such vendor is Deltek—long reported by TEC as the enterprise resource planning (ERP) [...]
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Learn about open source robotics company Willow Garage, a leading edge risk-taker on PBS: America Revealed. Follow the company on Twitter @willowgarage. Steve Cousins is CEO at Willow Garage in California. Willow Garage makes personalized robots, robots that do chores, such as load the dishwasher or take the dog for a walk. America Revealed host, [...]
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Winning the future through open innovation is a story with no beginning – or end. That was the biggest take-away from the second Start Norfolk build-a-business-in-a-weekend competition held at the end of April 2012 at Old Dominion University’s Ted Constant Convocation Center. The metrics: over 275 attendees, 17 sponsors, 18 mentors and judges, 9 speakers [...]
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So, you are asking yourself … how can a “fixed” asset have “mobility”? Well, the fixed asset is “fixed” neither in the sense that (a) it was broken and is now repaired nor (b) it is “fixed” in the sense that it is attached to something else and immovable. Rather it is a “long-term tangible piece [...]
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It’s exciting when your company’s decade-short entrepreneurial efforts have helped seed a new business culture and to see the successful results of other company’s labors. xTuple (Next Generation Business Management Software to Grow Your World), headquartered in the “Innovation Corridor” of downtown Norfolk, Va., is seeing the results with startup competitions, entrepreneurial boot camps, meetups [...]
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A recent article in USA Today, “Ask an Expert: Entrepreneurs, avoid these these 5 tech traps,” succinctly summed up one of the biggest mistakes companies make specifically in regards to their business management software. That tech trap is item number four on expert Steve Strauss’ list: 4. Never really learning the software: Like the brain, people tend [...]
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Interested in starting a company? Then Startup Night, now in its second year, is for you; it’s a monthly panel discussion/networking event hosted by We Are Titans, a web development and design studio and organizer of the build-a-business weekend-long competition, Start Norfolk. Left to right: Ned Lilly, President and CEO of xTuple, and Paul DiNardo, CPA [...]
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We Are Titans announces Start Norfolk 2.0, a weekend long event bringing together individuals of different mind and skill sets— entrepreneurs, engineers, developers, designers, and business professionals —with the goal of building viable startups. According to the organizers, Start Norfolk is: “Rocketfuel for your startup. From blueprints to buildouts in a weekend.” Sponsor and xTuple [...]
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A moment of silence for ERP. Much has been discussed about SAP’s pending $3.4B acquisition of SuccessFactors, and now Oracle’s $1.9 billion deal to buy Taleo. Rightly, SAP and Oracle have been praised for trying to bolster their cloud offerings with these moves. But, in a few years, I wonder if it will really matter. Because, [...]
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