Zvi Band

Category: Entrepreneurship

  • Marketing Using a Facebook Application

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    Since the Facebook Platform has been launched a number of months ago, allowing anyone to write an application that can interact with Facebook users in any number of ways, thousands of such applications have been released. While many startups are forming (and existing ones) focusing solely on Facebook applications, a viable business model for a…

  • Getting in the zone

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    Besides riding to the top of here, watching these guys win an unwinnable game, and having a crap-ton of fun here, I still managed to code an extraordinary amount. Wrote a Facebook application (I’ll talk about talk about that eventually), came up with a bunch of ideas for other ones (if I feel like spending…

  • Aaaaaaaaaaand it’s already out there.

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    I spent hours looking for something like Metro Times (train times via text message), and couldn’t find anything. So after spending a good chunk of time coding up Metro Times and getting it to a finished state, I was sure I was offering something totally new. And then while writing the previous blog announcement, I…

  • The Unfolding

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    The past ten days have been very trying for me, but also very productive. Despite working an incredible amount of hours at my day job (and dealing with the stress and deadlines related to what is going on there), I have managed to maintain a steady pace of productivity. I decided to utilize all my…

  • Should Washington, DC have an Ignite Conference?

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    Ignite is another O’Reilly-branded conference that has been “made open” in that anyone can create one in their area. Like Barcamp, it is loosely organized, more meant as a place for like-minded folk to get together, network, and brainstorm rather than really learn. BarcampDC was an incredible success… we might be looking to organize a…

  • Billionaire Boot Camp

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    Another couple articles on Unit 8200, which I had talked about in a previous post. Unit members are taught that there’s no such thing as “impossible,” while “no” is something temporary that can change by persistence and insistence, even if it’s the Unit commander himself who said “no.” Billionaire Boot Camp [Subscription Required for Full…

  • That’s quite a nametag you’ve got there…

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    8.3 million. For nametags. Say what you want about the possible benefits of having it. But they have quite some competition. What is interesting to me, however, is that this is another Boston company being funded. I think, slowly but surely, investors are funding companies in places other than the valley. I’m interested in seeing…

  • BarCamp DC Wrap-Up

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    Attended my first (as well as DC’s first) BarCamp. It was an awesome experience. Not only did I learn a lot, but I met a great crowd of people. It was fascinating to discover a small but thriving community of similar web-heads, and would kill to do the things some of them do. Who knows,…

  • Barcamp!

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    After finally coming out of my post-grad shell and seeing what’s out there in the working world, I found out about, and subsequently signed registered for, Barcamp DC. Barcamps are un-conferences, a concept where, instead of attendees shelling out a ton of cash to listen to a few highly paid people at a conference organized…

  • Israeli Entrepreneurship

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    When I was on a technology and entrepreneurship-geared trip to Israel in late 2005, I was struck by one thing in particular. Besides Israel being one of the hotbeds for technology and entrepreneurship (and the country with the most stocks in the US stock market – after the US), the majority of entrepreneurs, in all…