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Art Koenig
Director of Pain Relief , xGEL Data Systems (Owner)
www.xgeldatasystems.com
San Antonio, Texas, United States
Business owner
Member since: July 16, 2008
Director of Pain Relief , xGEL Data Systems (Owner)
www.xgeldatasystems.com
San Antonio, Texas, United States
Business owner
Member since: July 16, 2008
About Art
Bio
I am a software developer right now. Came over to the dark side about 5 years ago. In a previous life I was incarnated as an engineer and developed tools and equipment and processes for doing specialized engineering work. Got some of my stuff patented, tried to sell it, nobody wanted to buy (yawn), figured I would go into the business myself using my equipment - Yee Haw actually made a living doing it! Even got to sue somebody for patent infringement - that is another story. Prior to all this that I was in the US Army and worked for Exxon Oil Company. I am just crazy enough to think that software development could be fun, although after a product is done then ya gotta sell it. THAT is the other 185% of the job.
Education
| 1973 - 1977 Rice University , BS , BS Civil Engineering |
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You say ..... It always makes me laugh when people try to protect the idea and say their ideas are in stealth mode or they say they thought of eBay a while back. I disagree with the implication concerning ideas and it being laughable that they be protected and keeping them under wraps for a while. Ok, in that 4 months how many times did you release your detailed plans and progress to the trade? Please let us know on the vator network and on your website all the ideas that you have decided to work on- as you think of theme and also which woned yu are dripoing and those that your are pursuing. Also, please post the source code of all your games, becasue, of course, it is laughable that internal business operations and plans should be protected.
on In economic downtimes, it's about survival (May 13, 2009)
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Yup, I know what he means. I found out the hard way too. I thought that our niche software would grow word-of-mouth among users, but what we are finding is that there simply is not a market - and by market I mean an interconnected and communicating group of people. My users do not communicate with each other, especially about business production process software, because a) they are engineers (generally introverts) and more interested in frogs, than they are at running all over telling people about the new frog they found, and b) because they do not want to tell their competitor about anything that may help out their competition, and c) one of the most surprizing thing found, was that the very end users (production people) actually enjoyed the sensual pleasure of filling out all the paperwork that our software was designed to eliminate! So surprizing was this that I wrote it up at http://www.xgelte... Art xgel data systems
on Mark Pincus' lessons from Tribe - fail fast (April 29, 2009)
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THAT is a great idea. In a web phone dense area like SF/LA etc. that can take off if it encounters a sneezer that will be able to purple cow it.
on Discover your world! (December 03, 2008)
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Sure thats the ticket... use other peoples money and that way when you lose it you don't have to take a hit. Just like the fianceers did with the tranches in the mortgage industry and the now strident bailout proponents.
Ask Scott if he will invest a couple billion in my company without requiring me to invest any? If so then I will send him an address of where to mail the check.
on Scott McNealy on breaking the rules (October 01, 2008)
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I Agree - Me My Show - Great Bambi - I would have clocked him too.
on Entrepreneur matchmaking sites (August 22, 2008)
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