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Best Laid Plans

“The best laid plans of mice and men often go astray.” – Robert Burns
Well, here we are 34 hours from New Year’s.  And neither of my projects are ready to launch.
On the work front (the re-launch of www.buytough.com), we’ve had quite a bit go astray:
First, the designer delivered the finished design about 6 weeks [...]

Rekindling the flame: the love of startups.

This weekend I took time off from my “side project” to participate in the Atlanta Startup Weekend.  For those of you unfamiliar with the event.  It was essentially 100+ entrepreneurs with varying skills (technical, marketing, design) getting together to see how many “startups” they could start in a weekend – 54 hours (Friday 6pm – [...]

Building a Blueprint – Development Plan

“Failing to plan is planning to fail.” – Alan Lakein
Just because I am not going to write a full business plan, does not mean I am not going to have a plan.  In fact, I’m going to have a plan for both the development of the site and the marketing site.
First, the development plan.
If I [...]

Hello world!

Launch is about taking an idea for a web site or web application and making it a reality.  I am currently working on two ideas:

the re-launch of www.buytough.com as a next generation ecommerce site.
the launch of an idea I’ve been playing with for a new social networking / dating site.

This blog will chronicle the steps I [...]