Alex Lowe on Software and Startups

They say there are three things to building a startup successful: team, market, and product. I want to explore these three concepts from my experience and then get into some of the other things that are necessary that team, market, product help you attain.
Team 
The team, in my opinion, is of the utmost importance. It doesn’t stand alone, a […]

Priorities, that’s what we set when we’re in business. One priority that is tricky is optimization in search of a greater profit margin. Product optimization, workflow optimization, operational optimization, and any other ways of making business more streamlined is a good thing in general, but can be a bad thing at times.
In general, optimized business […]

You’ll read lists and lists and lists. You’ll read advice and more advice. I’m part of the information storm, and I want to talk about it. When you’re in a startup the context of your business changes all the time. It is so dynamic that “the most important thing” never stays that way for long.
If […]

There are precarious times when in business. I’d like to draw attention to the two most precarious times: high growth and slow decline.
The ideal state of a business is sustained growth, a nice gentle line that trends upwards.
A bad state, obviously, is a sharp downward slope. The only positive behind a sharp downward slope is that […]

It seems there are three motivations for information exchange in the niche of blogging media:

Entertainment
Planning
To Generate More Information

Blogs serve the purpose of entertaining, this includes all the jokes and humor, updates about the next gadget, horror stories about failed companies, gossip, or even just news about local events. This is information that we consume for our […]

You need information; news, entertainment, research, or something else. Traditional media has become more corporatized and influenced by advertising dollars and politics. The web is following suit with major players bubbling to the top, advertisers directing content, and search empires telling us where to go. Blogs have been touted as the grassroots solution for free […]

Hi everyone, happy new year! Well, this will be the first post of many about a new venture that I’m putting together. The focus of the offering (no, I’m not going to announce it yet) is optimized online advertising. Today, Google and other behemoths have made their money by operating ad networks that optimize advertising. Advertising […]