Stronico – Steroids for Networking We help the world’s best salesmen build better networks

Last Wednesday I attended the StartUp Atlanta March event (on the web at StartUpAtlanta.org, @StartupAtlanta on Twitter) where about 60 or so members of the Startup community mixed, mingled, and listened to 5 presentations by new Startups in Atlanta.

The community was quite nice (I saw a number of familiar faces, and met some new people too), and the Georgia Tech was nice enough to loan out the Georgia Tech Research Institute facility auditorium. I had a great time meeting everyone and Mike Schinkel and his volunteers moved things along well. It is impossible to overstate how important it is to keep these events running on time.

And now, the contestants! We listened to the presentations, and voted via twitter for our favorites, here were mine, recorded here for posterity. I judge startups by the following criteria, on a scale of 1-10 (higher is better). I thought I would share it here for the first time.

1. Problem Solving - It can be a cool product, but does it make anyone’s life easier?
2. Actual Customers - I am defining the customer as someone with both problems and money.
3. Simplicity of Pricing – can the fees be described to anyone, do you need more information about the prospect before you can offer a quote?
4. Chicken and Egg Problem – does the product require a lot of Customer A before Customer B becomes interested, and vice versa? This applies a good bit to middleman/broker type companies like E-Bay.
5. Remarkability – that is to say, can someone who heard a quick presentation about it describe it to someone the next day, and have it be understood?

Note, I do not judge the passion of the founders, quality of marketing, execution etc. That’s too hard to judge based off of a short presentation. Read more on Startup Atlanta – March 2010 Edition…

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Nearly a week has gone by without any sort of posting.  Rest assured that work is still being done – it’s just tedious and not very remarkable.  Our second e-blast went out without incident.

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Last night I read Hugh MacLeod of GapingVoid.com on Global MicroBrands.  Today I had the thought that I need to establish a non-denominational reference site for social network theory to support Stronico, as well as to help push the theoretical edges of the web application.  Then I remembered that I was going to do some turning on the new lathe tonight.

Then I had the thoughts: Read more on Global microbrands, free stuff, and a new idea…

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As you might expect, most of the traffic comes from Google, and curiously most of the search terms are about problems with QuickBooks.  The How To Fix series is the second most popular.  Happily the search term “Visual Contact Management” is a prominent search term as well.  I’m still debating as to whether or not the photos in the blog posts are of any use or not.

Read more on A note about the Stronico blog traffic…

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I do not know that much about jQuery, or any of it’s offshoots (jQueryUI, etc) but I do have a need for modal popups.  As I am building the website in ASP.net MVC, instead of ASP.net webforms I  have decided to use the jQuery platform instead of the standard Ajax Toolkit.

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I recently had these thoughts and I’m documenting them for version 2 of the Stronico application.

1. Psychological profiling of contacts.  I’m thinking of a simple Type A, Type B snap judgment one can make after first meeting a person.  If I can think of working in the Myers-Briggs personality types that would be wonderful, but I don’t think the information is there to implement it practically.

Read more on New feature ideas for Stronico…

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Thanks to the intrepid design heroes at Mock Advertising we now have  a new home page at Stronico.com.  Please check it out and let me know what you think.

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The path to beta proceeds, inexorably to completion.

We should hit our upcoming beta launch date.  We have a shiny new server being configured in the data center even as we speak.

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Numerous readers have pointed out to me that I have not written a description of Stronico on this blog.  So, with no further ado…

Stronico is a web application that helps you remember who you know, and how you know them.  It connects the contact with the context.  I came up with the idea to solve one of my persistent problems; forgetting the names and faces of everyone I met.  The only good way I can remember people is to think of how I am connected to them.  Did I work with that person, were we neighbors?  Did that person work with my neighbor’s cousin’s roofing contractor?

Read more on What is Stronico Contact Management?…

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As I’m one of the few people (as far as I can tell) developing a stand-alone commercial application with Silverlight, I’ve decided to blog every single technical problem I have with developing the application, as well as how to fix the problem. Expect them to be in a “The Problem, The Cause, The Solution” format. Many posts to come I assure you.

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