By David Abramowski  As my development team at MioWorks rounds the corner on a significant update, I thought it was important to have a user guide that explained the features and told the story of the MioWorks application. I started looking into online help systems around the open source ecosystem. It se... Jul. 20, 2009 04:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,027 |
By David Abramowski The Open Source Bridge Conference made its debut last week at the Oregon Convention Center. Over 450 attendees gathered to share ideas, learn from each other and strengthen open source communities. The conference itself was an all volunteer effort that included dozens of organizers a... Jun. 21, 2009 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 198 |
By David Abramowski Every heard of GreenLight Greater Portland? Don’t worry, I hadn’t really known of it until Rick Turoczy at Silicon Florist graciously invited me to hang out with a few other start-up types and invade the suit and tie world of economic development. The annual meeting was h... Jun. 15, 2009 02:08 AM EDT Reads: 347 |
By David Abramowski As reported by CNET News “Lightning took down Amazon Cloud” and confirmed by Amazon there was a small outage in the Amazon EC2 infrastructure. The media decided that this is a great reason to run another hype story and provide you with a headline that is really misleading.... Jun. 12, 2009 12:11 PM EDT Reads: 110 |
By David Abramowski  Hey did you know that the term “Start up” isn’t exclusive to technology companies? I was shocked earlier this week when a few accountants wanted to have coffee and discuss their start up. Immediately my brain started to think about the types of software they must be creating. As I e... May. 28, 2009 09:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,252 |
By David Abramowski You may not be heavily involved in the internet, but odds are that your customers and competitors are. If your business is all about referrals, then you need to know what is being said so you can counter any false claims or pro-actively participate where it matters the most.
The easies... May. 21, 2009 10:59 AM EDT Reads: 117 |
By David Abramowski The Internet has gone map crazy and location based search is all the rage. If you have a physical location and you want customers to find you when they search Google, Yahoo or a myriad of other sites, then follow this advice.
Every month there are more than 10 billion unique searches a... May. 18, 2009 02:36 PM EDT Reads: 186 |
By David Abramowski  We all know that getting a business off the ground is expensive and time consuming. It’s difficult to be a part time entrepreneur and being full time means you have $100k of your own money in the bank to pay the mortgage & expenses. Unfortunately that’s not the case for most entrepre... May. 16, 2009 07:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,294 |
By David Abramowski As a companion to the posting “Funding & revenue: chicken and egg” here is a brief summary of some of the research performed and the results:
SBA Small Business Loan – I visited US Bank and talked to them about a potential SBA loan to kick start a brand new busine... May. 15, 2009 03:06 PM EDT Reads: 144 |
By David Abramowski  In today’s Oregonian, Mike Rogoway’s article “Tech entrepreneurs defy recession“ quotes me as being able to build the first version of MioWorks.com for $5,000. Well this is very true but may be a little misleading so let me explain how this can be. The team behind MioWorks is not jus... May. 3, 2009 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 759 |
By David Abramowski Last night I attended the Big Idea Bash hosted by the Oregon State Treasurer Ben Westlund. According to the web site for the event
The Big Idea Bash is a social gathering created to connect entrepreneurs to the organizations that can help them flourish. This year the event will featu... Apr. 30, 2009 07:58 PM EDT Reads: 172 |
By David Abramowski  Don’t underestimate the power of beta testing to a wide range of people. Consider it collaborative development. Open your software to a broad range of people inside and outside of your target market and you’ll be amazed at what you get back from them. Apr. 26, 2009 11:13 AM EDT Reads: 669 |
By David Abramowski Today I attended the preamble to the InnoTech conference in Portland, OR called the eMarketing Summit. The day was filled with energetic and passionate speakers that made the $149 fee well worth the price. The topics varied by speaker but there was a common theme - there is much more ... Apr. 23, 2009 10:43 AM EDT Reads: 606 |
By David Abramowski Everyone loves a free event. We take up space and kibitz with our friends, colleagues & associates. We eat the free food. We drink the free coffee or adult beverages. When it comes to the time of the day where the sponsors get their 10 minutes, we turn off. We quickly pull out ... Apr. 6, 2009 10:26 PM EDT |
By David Abramowski  Kicking things off was Benjamin Stover & Jason Grlicky with I need to read this They sum up their application with a rather easy to remember phrase - bookmarks meet to do lists. The problem they are solving revolves around the multitude of information that we read every day on the Int... Apr. 3, 2009 12:38 PM EDT Reads: 328 |
By David Abramowski A quick alert about my current project called www.mioworks.com. We just entered the public beta phase for the solution. There is a brand new web site with videos and information to help you better understand what the application is all about.
Posted in Sofware Startup Mar. 24, 2009 05:43 PM EDT Reads: 107 |
By David Abramowski You have two minutes to describe your business and your start-up dream. You are handed a microphone. What are you going to do? Pontificate about how much you need the money or how fast you can spend it…or tell a story that inspires people to get behind your next $100million dol... Mar. 20, 2009 06:48 PM EDT Reads: 222 |
By David Abramowski Last night over a hundred entrepreneurs crowded into Ned Space to help kick off an effort to develop funding for start-ups in Oregon. The message was clear. The state should take a small portion of investment dollars and funnel them not into one time projects, but into entrepreneurs t... Mar. 20, 2009 03:35 PM EDT Reads: 130 |
By David Abramowski Last night I attended my first Startup Exchange meetup organized by the Software Association of Oregon. The meeting was held at the offices of Chime Software hidden away in Portland’s East side warehouse district. The Startup Exchange is for entrepreneurs only, no service provi... Mar. 18, 2009 12:54 PM EDT |
By David Abramowski  If you don't know how to fly a plane, would you try to solo? Of course not, yet every day we hear cloud failure stories. Learn from those who have mastered the cloud and you'll see the true value of this tremendous tool. Learn how to use monitoring to enhance the uptime and quality ... Mar. 10, 2009 02:42 AM EDT Reads: 1,991 |
David Abramowski is CEO of Mio Partnerz LLC, a new startup in Portland building a SaaS application taking advantage of cloud computing. Formerly, David was the CEO of MorphLabs where he led the team to build one of the first multi-environment platform as a service offerings on top of Amazon Web Services. Prior to joining Morph Labs, he was a Director of Product Marketing for Symantec, where he was responsible for introducing and enabling acquired endpoint technologies to Symantec's worldwide sales and partner organizations. Follow David's tweets at http://www.twitter.com/dabramowski
