Sometimes life’s calendar just won’t let you accomplish everything that you’ve wanted to and that was the case with us and BarCampBankBC. William and Tim have done a great job organizing it and from the conversations I’ve been following over the weekend, it appears that they had some great discussions as well. I’ve been following [...]
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We missed out on BarCampBankBC
September 21st, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: · BarCampBank
A nuclear event…
August 27th, 2008 · No Comments
A co-worker of mine on the credit union side showed me one of the massive contracts we have with an ATM vendor. Let me just say they are very thorough.
In no case shall XYZ Vendor be liable for Loss or for non-permonance or delays of Service, liability or expense caused by or resultsing from: (1) [...]
Tags: · contracts, legal agreements, vendor management
Who’s idea is the best?
March 25th, 2008 · 2 Comments
First it was Dell. Then it was Ubuntu and now we have Starbucks. It seems everyone wants to know what their customers want now. Imagine that.
Dell launched IdeaStorm last year and they’ve had wonderful success doing it so far. Surprise, surprise, everyone wants Linux pre-installed. I mentioned it in a post on my personal blog [...]
Tags: · brainstorm, dell, ideastorm, starbucks, ubuntu
LifeLock
January 23rd, 2008 · 3 Comments
I noticed LifeLock got $25M in series c funding today. A month or so back there was a conversation going on at Banktastic about identity theft companies and if they were really worth the money. Search for credit union identify theft on Google and you’ll end up with a bunch of credit unions offering their service to their members.
So [...]
Tags: · banktastic, identity theft, LifeLock
When your customers want something else
December 28th, 2007 · No Comments
What do you do? You’ve built your company and products on a specific model, pulling teeth along the way to sell it. It seems like your customers are asking the same questions and have the same objections, but the solution means changing your product and some of the fundamental differentiators you’ve built into it. Do [...]
Tags: · product design, strategy
Facebook Company Pages
November 9th, 2007 · No Comments
I just put up a fi-linx page on Facebook to give it a whirl and see how it works. I had a little better experience than Jim had because mine went up instantly. It’ll be interesting to see how all of these pan out. I do agree with Jim: get your company page before someone [...]
Tags: · facebook

