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		<title>Software Ideas</title>
		<link>http://www.greaterscope.com/blog/2010/02/19/software-ideas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 21:05:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Techies and startup dreamers, how about another Friday distraction?
Please enlighten me if any of these exist. This is just a brain-dump of half-thoughs I&#8217;ve had over the past year.
Pluggable, Context-aware Help System (Updated again, 02/21)

Many web apps don&#8217;t have an integrated help system, or help docs at all. The system I&#8217;m imagining would make use [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bring the Background Noise</title>
		<link>http://www.greaterscope.com/blog/2010/02/18/bring-the-background-noise/</link>
		<comments>http://www.greaterscope.com/blog/2010/02/18/bring-the-background-noise/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 18:09:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[arrington]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bezos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[charlie rose]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gates]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.greaterscope.com/blog/?p=151</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Think I listened to 8 Charlie Rose episodes yesterday while working. All of Michael Arrington&#8217;s (because I was curious), a few with Bill Gates and the newest with Jeff Bezos.
I think if I could trade places with any successful tech CEO/entrepreneur, it would be Jeff Bezos. He&#8217;s 100% likable, with tons of energy.
Charlie asked Jeff [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RC, A/C and Other Improvements</title>
		<link>http://www.greaterscope.com/blog/2010/01/30/rc-ac-and-other-improvements/</link>
		<comments>http://www.greaterscope.com/blog/2010/01/30/rc-ac-and-other-improvements/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 05:17:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[air conditioners]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[macguyver]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[modularity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mr wizard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pesticides]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[publix]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[radio control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reuse]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.greaterscope.com/blog/?p=132</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Wherein I discuss my elementary ideas and woes regarding radio control circuit design, air conditioners, building materials, and a few other things. It&#8217;s a portrait of what it&#8217;s like to be irked by things that should have been designed better, or could be.

Not sure when I started thinking about improving upon the design of things, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>A Personal Touch</title>
		<link>http://www.greaterscope.com/blog/2009/11/14/a-personal-touch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:02:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[personal touch]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.greaterscope.com/blog/?p=126</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On Nov 11, I updated the survey system on Flam Swiss, my drumline cadence composition venture. In the process I also thought, I&#8217;ll dedicate the right side of the site to surveys, that way they won&#8217;t be missed, and visitors will know what to expect.
Well, this also means I removed my photo from the right-side [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Survey Experiments</title>
		<link>http://www.greaterscope.com/blog/2009/11/11/survey-experiments/</link>
		<comments>http://www.greaterscope.com/blog/2009/11/11/survey-experiments/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:19:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[market research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[surveys]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wufoo]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.greaterscope.com/blog/?p=119</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[With so much to learn about my target market for Flam Swiss, I&#8217;ve been making use of surveys to find out who my site visitors are.
Wufoo is great, but I only had 1 response when visitors were asked to visit a link in order to fill out my Wufoo survey form. When I decided to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Minimum Viable Product and Letters of Intent</title>
		<link>http://www.greaterscope.com/blog/2009/10/23/minimum-viable-product-and-letters-of-intent/</link>
		<comments>http://www.greaterscope.com/blog/2009/10/23/minimum-viable-product-and-letters-of-intent/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 01:39:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marketing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.greaterscope.com/blog/?p=107</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I really liked this case study outlining new approaches to gleaning customer feedback, developing a software product that customers actually want, and trying to lock in customers that will actually pay for what you create.
The gist is:

That they created screenshots (in photoshop) of their not-yet-existent application so they could walk through the functionality and workflow [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moving on</title>
		<link>http://www.greaterscope.com/blog/2009/09/22/moving-on/</link>
		<comments>http://www.greaterscope.com/blog/2009/09/22/moving-on/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 04:13:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.greaterscope.com/blog/?p=100</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The newest news is that I&#8217;m no longer working on my storefront software. If I could get back all the time and energy I spent on the project, I&#8217;m not sure that I would, because I&#8217;d no doubt make the same mistakes elsewhere, on another project.
Of course, some post-mortem advice is product-specific, but here&#8217;s what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another Exposé</title>
		<link>http://www.greaterscope.com/blog/2009/04/25/another-expose/</link>
		<comments>http://www.greaterscope.com/blog/2009/04/25/another-expose/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2009 02:29:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shopping cart]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.greaterscope.com/blog/?p=93</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Self-doubt has struck again. I&#8217;ve spent more than two years building this &#8220;thing&#8221;. But please don&#8217;t tell anybody because it&#8217;s a little embarrassing. Why?

Because you often hear 6 months as the longest amount of time a startup should spend on a project for it to be considered &#8220;worthwhile&#8221;. I&#8217;ve spent more than 2 years. 37signals [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Here You Go</title>
		<link>http://www.greaterscope.com/blog/2009/04/15/here-you-go/</link>
		<comments>http://www.greaterscope.com/blog/2009/04/15/here-you-go/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 15:32:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[beta]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.greaterscope.com/blog/?p=89</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Caterina Fake included a quote from a friend on her post about Hunch. It goes like this. &#8220;If you launch something you&#8217;re not at all embarrassed by, then you&#8217;ve waited too long.&#8221; Hunch is a free web app, not a commercial product, so that advice probably doesn&#8217;t apply to what I&#8217;m doing. And no doubt, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Licensing is Hard</title>
		<link>http://www.greaterscope.com/blog/2009/03/18/licensing-is-hard/</link>
		<comments>http://www.greaterscope.com/blog/2009/03/18/licensing-is-hard/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 20:59:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[licensing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[open source]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.greaterscope.com/blog/?p=75</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m stumped. Here&#8217;s what I want:

I want people to be able to customize my product
I want people to be able to make money selling their customizations
I want people to make money off their customization services
I want people that have purchased a license to be able to use the product as long as they want

Here&#8217;s what [...]]]></description>
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