Business Ideas Posts
42 days ago
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Produced by Brandon Corbin
Season 2 of 8iFY has finally arrived! In this episode I talk with Quipol's founder Max Yoder. Max is a 23 year old entrepreneur who's absolutely crushing with a killer polling platform. Listen to hear how Max got Forbes to use Quipol, and his technique for getting big news coverage like this and this.
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Mentioned in this episode:
Orr Fellowship
Built Quipol with Kristian Anderson
threewords.me
Balsamic Mockups
Forbes using Quipol.
TechCrunch using Quipo...
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234 days ago
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Produced by Brandon Corbin
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How do three friends go from an idea to launching a business and getting some killer PR in only a few months? Listen to this interview with The Tyros to find out.
On this July 4th episode we talk with Josh Koch, Tony Monteleone and Kyle Armstrong about their new startup that's going to change the face of Officiating.
Are you a front-end developer looking to get in on the ground floor of a hot Indy startup? Check out The Tyros' Web Developer job opening.
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262 days ago
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Produced by Brandon Corbin
How did a resume / job search platform pivot to be a exclusive members only community for developers and designers?
Jared Brown and I talk about his journey building Talentopoly.com, and his long term goal of creating a sustainable and easy to manage online business.
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Mentioned in this episode
Code Monkeys At Work - Jarred's development brand
Brian Hoff - rockstar designer
Dribbble - show and tell for creative.
behance - creative network
Carbonmade - creative portfolios
influa...
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276 days ago
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Produced by Brandon Corbin
How many of you know of Chatroulette? How many of you have used Chatroulette? How many of you STILL use Chatroulette? You want to know why? One word, penises. Grabachat is the solution. Grabachat is a face-to-face social networking site that connects people with similar interest, hobbies and experiences.
Learn how Grabachat is creating a chatroulette with purpose. Listen to CEO Zach Zuber talk about how Grabachat got started, how it's planning to grow and why removing anonymitty also stops...
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283 days ago
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Produced by Brandon Corbin
In this interview I talk with WeeBehave's CEO Travis Ryan about how he created his idea, got started and got some great PR - all by his lonesome. Indianapolis' WeeBehave helps parents and teachers keep track of their children/students progress in behaviors and chores. Now Travis is looking for a co-founder to take WeeBehave to the next level and dominate the education market.
About WeeBehave
WeeBehave provides online chore charts and behavior (reward) charts and Antecedent-Behavior-C...
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297 days ago
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Produced by Brandon Corbin
Mark Anderson and I relive our experiences launching Appendant Marketing Group, a personalized direct marketing agency.
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We candidly cover:
Meeting at TruStar Solutions.
Leaving Enfront to launch our first product RecruitCard.
The pain and excitement of building an company, office and hiring 15 people.
An accidental firing.
Generating $1.2 million in sales our first year.
Promoting your business using conferences for virtually free.
Raising $350,000.
The ...
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332 days ago
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Produced by Brandon Corbin
In this episode of the 8iFY Podcast, I interview Yaw Aning the co-founder of Indianapolis startup PocketTales. PocketTales is an online social gaming platform for children - built around reading books. They got their start at the first StartupWeekend in Indianapolis, and had a chance to present at SXSW in 2010.
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Also mentioned in this episode:
August the founder of Yowza
Author Solutions
SproutBox
21 Century Fund
Shopsavvy
COPA Comliance
expected behavior
Ruby on Ra...
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350 days ago
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Produced by Brandon Corbin
DocRaptor is a killer new web service that makes generating BEAUTIFUL PDFs as easy as writing HTML. The raptor also does Excel Documents, however for the purpose of this post I'm going to focus purely on the PDF side of things.
Many many years ago, I started a PDF Book Printing service called PrintFu and needed the ability to generate PDF invoices dynamically that could then be merged with the customers original PDF for the printer. While this was in 2003, I spent a retarded amount of tim...
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360 days ago
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Produced by Brandon Corbin
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Today I spoke with Joshua Mitchell and Kevin Emmons the creators of new killer new startup in Indianapolis called Miss Pivot. Here's how MissPivot.com explains it:
Miss Pivot is dedicated to exposing the answers behind dating. We love researching what makes people tick and breaking down exactly what is happening when we meet others. By giving you the explanations behind our behaviors, you’re better off to respond with your own unique way. This keeps that individual ...
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363 days ago
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Produced by Ryan Cox
![Talentopoly, a new private network for sharing the best links. [guest post]](http://8ify.com/wp-content/themes/8ify3/timthumb.php?src=http://8ify.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/talentopoly.png&w=100&h=100&zc=1&cropfrom=)
Talentopoly aims to be the private network where talented people go to share the best links. Plain and simple. Founder Jared Brown wanted to create a network that made his time finding quality stuff to read easier. The fact is that most developers, designers and IT professionals aren’t the most socially aware of the Internet space. They might have more websites designed than friends on Facebook, and lines of of code written than tweets on Twitter. And who are we kidding, the people b...
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371 days ago
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Produced by Brandon Corbin
Here are 10 of my favorite business books I read in 2010.
Flash Foresight by Daniel Burrus and John Mann
Buy the Book or Buy the Audiobook
Multipliers by Greg McKeown and Liz Wiseman
Buy the Book or Buy the Audiobook
The Referral Engine by John Jantsch
Buy the Book or Buy the Audiobook
The 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss
Buy the Book or Buy the Audiobook
Made to Stick by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
Buy the Book or Buy the Audiobook
The Risk Takers by Don Martin and Renee Martin
Buy the B...
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385 days ago
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Produced by Brandon Corbin
Last November was my first StartupWeekend in Indianapolis. I'm happy to say my crew StatsSquared won in Indy, won in the US and came in 2nd globally. Not bad for a 32 hour blitz. If you're planning on doing StartupWeekend this April; then this post is to offer how I'd do things a little differently, knowing what I know now.
1. Come prepared with a pitch, a plan and a foundation.
Virtually everyone who pitches has only given a few hours of thought to their idea. And while many of the idea...
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391 days ago
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Produced by Brandon Corbin
![Make money building a hosted LESS Service (CSS) [idea]](http://8ify.com/wp-content/themes/8ify3/timthumb.php?src=http://8ify.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/less-logo.jpg&w=100&h=100&zc=1&cropfrom=)
LESS is a technique that makes CSS insanely more powerful, using Variables, Mixins, Operations and Nested Rules. It does this by incorporating a little server side code and is available for virtually all popular development platforms.
If you're looking for a new product to generate a little money on the side, this type of service would be incredibly valuable to web designers who don't want to mess with server side code, and are looking for a way to off load their CSS on to a CDN.
Example:...
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400 days ago
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Produced by Brandon Corbin
![How to make money online with a Stickers Business [idea]](http://8ify.com/wp-content/themes/8ify3/timthumb.php?src=http://8ify.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/pirate.png&w=100&h=100&zc=1&cropfrom=)
Stickers are an amazing product to sell online. They're easy to ship, they cost little to produce and hell, everyone loves a good sticker. So listen closely and act fast because what I'm about to share will contain ideas and names that won't be around for long.
Domains available for a Sticker Business
DarkSticker.com StickerPrank.com Sticker-Sisters.com StickerWire.com StickerLodge.com SoggySticker.com
Steps to getting your business going.
1. Find an artist to create your stickers....
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