Why iLogon has not succeeded…yet!

Notice that I did not say “Why iLogon failed”…because it hasn’t, and I still believe there is a great market for it. I could go through a long list of reasons of why it hasn’t hit yet, like how the economy has sucked since I launched iLogon, or how I wasn’t able to raise enough [...]

Agile is not an excuse to throw out process and documentation

I’m a big fan of agile and lean development/organizations. I’m all in, completely. For the last 5+ years I’ve been practicing agile development, and now I would consider myself a full on scrum practitioner. However, there are a few interesting things I’ve noticed over the years: a) Many people say they are doing Scrum, but [...]

Developing a Hybrid SaaS Application

What’s the best way to develop a Hyrbid SaaS application? By Hybrid SaaS app I mean solutions where the primary functionality is hosted, but there is a local footprint required at the customer site. The first thing I would say is don’t do it! Don’t install anything at the customer location…ever. Cloud, SaaS, whatever you [...]

Poll: How many fee based websites do you subscribe to?

I’m compiling data on the average number of SaaS or other subscription based websites both businesses and consumers subscribe to. This includes anything from Salesforce.com on the business/enterprise end down to Wall Street Journal on the consumer side, and everything in between. What type of web based applications are you willing to pay for? What [...]

My Interview with Startup Lucky

Last week I did an interview with Startup Lucky to promote iLogon. For those of you who don’t know who StartupLucky is, I highly recommend checking them out, especially if you are a startup founder / entrepreneur! They do web video interviews with startups, entrepreneurs, investors, and internet personalities. @aronado (Aronado Placencia for you non [...]

iLogon Public Beta Launch

Finally!! After several delays and a lot of stress, we launched the beta release. We certainly have a lot more work to do, but we now have steady traffic on the site and users. My goal is to drive traffic to the site, which will lead to beta accounts, which will then translate to paying production [...]

Good news for iLogon, pay sites on the rise

While working on the business model for iLogon, I noticed an interesting trend developing on the web. Is Web 2.0 a repeat of the dot com crash? Once again we started seeing ridiculous valuations on companies that generate little or no revenue. The difference this time? Users are King. If you have a lot of [...]

iLogon Update

I recently sent an email to everyone who has contributed to or inquired about the status of iLogon since we started last summer. I thought I would post a copy of that email here to record our current status and get access to anyone who is interested. Many people have helped iLogon out in one [...]

More thoughts on Startups

I’ve been thinking and writing a lot lately on the economy and how it is affecting startups. This is always on my mind. I’ve been pretty positive and bullish on how I think things will turn out. Last week, I attended the Arizona Entrepreneurship Conference, and was blown away by one presentation in particular. First [...]

When are business and government going to live a “healthy lifestyle”?

I just read a comment on a story in Techcrunch that got me thinking about the current financial and business downturn we are in. (ok, it’s probably more of a disaster, but I’m trying to be positive). Anyway, Web 2.0 Bubble commented as follows: Layoff is a corporate version of “On Diet”. If you eat [...]