Payments Basics: Understanding Electronic Commerce

July 7, 2008

Recently, I completed a webinar series with the Microsoft ISV Innovation team.  The goal was simple, and ridiculously ambitious, to provide a useful overview of the payments industry to software companies in 1 hour.  As you can imagine the material that “should” be covered can span several days. . .It was an interesting exercise in [...]

An Odd Experience: aka “Why is there a bus in Starbucks?”

June 6, 2008

I have spent much of the last week focusing on preparing content for the upcoming training events…My office mate, in an effort to keep me from grumbling too much, recommended a quick Starbucks.
Caffeine is my friend.  My close friend.
Imagine our surprise when we reached the main level of the building (our office is just above [...]

Payments Basics: a training event

May 28, 2008

I’m pleased to announce, at least via this blog, that I will be presenting an upcoming training series on commerce and software in partnership with Microsoft.  Frankly, I’m rather excited about the opportunity to engage with the ISV community in this fashion.  The sessions themselves are only 1 hour long and occur on June 10-12.  [...]

Community Intelligence: a Finovate summary

May 14, 2008

After several issues with my blog, I am (rather belatedly) blogging about my thoughts from FinovateStartup 2008.  For those of you unfamiliar with the event, take a minute to read my summary of the event and the IP Commerce involvement posted here.
Are you back?  Good.
Finovate may have been one of the best events at which [...]

FinovateStartup 2008: an IP Commerce platform demonstration

April 21, 2008

 
In 2007, Jim Bruene (Online Banking Report and NetBanker) organized an event called Finovate.  It was popular enough, and sold out quickly, that this year has prompted the creation of a new event…FinovateStartup.
This is the sort of conference that I truly enjoy.  Short demos (5 minutes max, no powerpoint) that touch on the capabilities of [...]