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  Sorry to hear that dude, hope your company gets some monies shortly. : one random winner
  • Thanks. :/ : ThomW
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  Schools do their budgets in the summer and right now I am sure their budgets are getting slashed! Do y... : quazar
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    Schools are getting piles of federal funding this year. 50% more compared to last year through stimulus ... : ThomW
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      But that's a very SMALL part of each district's budget. The vast majority of a school's budget is based o... : Bold
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        Our product only costs $2600 to outfit a lab of computers, and a lot of the schools my bosses work with a... : ThomW
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          wow, that's weird, you'd think you guys would be in the money. : slickdoody
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            That's what the three of us are thinking as well. Why aren't people buying this shit? : ThomW
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              Who are you marketing to? The teachers? The people in charge of the computer networks? The school dist... : crimrOw
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                That's one of the things I struggle with personally. The teachers don't seem to have the power to mak... : ThomW
                • Perhaps this isn't the kind of thing you solve with more code? Whoever is responsible the marketing in y... : crimrOw
    • It's probably going to be spent on things other than education. : Sailor of Fortune
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      Despite the federal funding, my school is cutting more than half of the PE programs, less than half from ... : mysled
      • Also, many classes use iClickers already :/ : mysled
• hard time to be selling that right now with all the cut backs in education =( : hirez
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  Promethean? Smart Technologies? Turning Point? : Warlock
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    I know we just lost a potential customer to Promethean's ActiVote software. I haven't seen it in action ... : ThomW
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      ActivExpression does multiple input types (MC, TF, Text, Numeric, Likert Scale) ActiVote is only A-F mul... : Warlock
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        I wish I could see pricing on that ActivExpression stuff. : ThomW
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          $91.76 each or $2,699.00 for 32. Real pricing is probably a little less, they just dropped the price of t... : Warlock
          • Assuming you're somewhere like PA where the schools already own the laptops, we're really competitive and... : ThomW
• Shit man. If I knew for sure the uni I work at needed something like that, I'd get more info on it. Good... : dudehoyt
• That sucks man :( I bet you wouldn't have trouble finding something else pretty quick if you did lose ... : MagicWishMonkey
• =( I hope your company does well. If things go south and you need a contract/money asap, just contact me. : Frozen Pixel
• you've wasted your life. most teachers have no use for that. they try to use it but it's just a pain in t... : burningpantsman
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  You guys are a little late. iClicker and Quizdom are pretty well the top systems out there now. : mancide
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    In Pennsylvania they had this Classroom of the Future program running the last few years, and the state b... : ThomW
    • I think maine has a laptop program too, you guys should look into them : kaddar0
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      That sounds awesome. We had a few instructors that went out and each got a different version of these cli... : mancide
      • I think that's our #1 competition. Closets of unused clickers. :P : ThomW
      • The professors paid for them at your school? The bad part about it here was that some classes used differ... : mysled
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  iphone apps are where da monies at. : edgewise
  • haha this is so true and yet so sad somehow : gakera
  • I'm thinking about making an iPhone app for Wishlist Buddy to get my feet wet with doing projects on it, ... : ThomW
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    There's so much more software being sold in the world than the stuff that gets talked about on the web. T... : rock elf
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      tell me about it. Dental software is ridiculously priced. : edgewise
      • At my new dentist they have a Microsoft Bob style system, that looks like the dental room. Interesting b... : trove
      • Fucking PracticeWorks can eat a bag of dicks. at least 5 years ago when I last had to deal with it...tho : hawkeye
• yeah, that's a shitty situation, similar thing has happened to me (smaller time investment though, 8 mont... : supersonic potato
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  Yeah, blackboard and webct is pretty much universally used here,  and I think the contracts aren't alway... : thief
  • Although what you're doing sounds a bit different and more narrowly focused. : thief
  • ^^^this. I've worked with a number of schools and they've all used Webct : cptstern
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    Those guys aren't really our competition. : ThomW
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      are you SURE? who's at the helm of your company? :( : Downforce
      • my interpretation of his post is that his software is like making all students feel like they are playing... : kaddar0
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        It's not a classroom management system. It's an interactive system for kids to respond to answers in rea... : ThomW
        • ... it's not web-based if that's what you're thinking. : ThomW
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    Blackboard is shitty. :( : MercFox1
    • Yeah, I don't like it. Very poor layout. : ArcKnight
  • moodle's awesome. I developed some things on the side to work with it at my old job : kgargs
  • I didnt realize you worked at UT : noobja
  • webct fucking blows : maulla
  • blackboard fucking sucks. : K1Bond007
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  Hire a business model : gakera
  • Make sure she's blonde with giant boobs. : jingletard
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  ThomW, you have great instinct when it comes to putting yourself in the shoes of the user and designing y... : dmason
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    If there were a "support ThomW" iPhone app I bet allot of shackers would buy it. It doesn't even have to... : gakera
    • I want to see a student response system iPhone app. : Warlock
• :( : askedrelic
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  Market your products to areas in the 'fly-over' states or places like Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri etc... M... : Scotty22
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    We're trying to launch this on the cheap and only working on PA at the moment. The web site will obvious... : ThomW
    • Yeah that's unfortunate :( Sorry to hear your woes man. I've looked at opening some small businesses an... : Scotty22
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  Is it available in foreign languages, say Japanese? : Lone Swordsman
  • No. That's not even on the radar at this point, unfortunately . : ThomW
• Best of luck. I hope it works out ok for you and your peers there. : bombay
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  Doh, that sucks. Do you also provide content for the system, or leave it up to the teachers to integrate... : Ovate
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    We're not selling content, so it's up to the teachers to create it. One of the things we want to do ... : ThomW
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      Hrmm...teachers are so overworked I'd doubt they'd be really thrilled about integrating curricula into a ... : Ovate
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        We're just trying to get into the budgets for next year, so we're not aiming to be a late in the year add... : ThomW
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          Mmm...well, good luck. I didn't mean to sound like I know how to run your company, since you guys are ob... : Ovate
          • Sorry if I seemed a little brusque... I'm stressed out. I do appreciate all the helpful things everyo... : ThomW
• I am the Director of Technology for a school system in Indiana... Can you post more detail and or a websi... : hawthor
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  The woes of an Internet Baron : MoreVespeneGas
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    I miss doing more Internet stuff. This thing is a Winforms app written in C# using .NET 2.0 . I've ... : ThomW
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      You should think about iPhone stuff. Seems like a good cash cow at the moment. You could prob make a ... : MoreVespeneGas
      • Unfortunately I don't think it'd get approved. :( : ThomW
• I might be able to help out. Got any details you can send me? : Dave-A
• Good luck man I went through something like that during the .com days. Hope things work out well in your... : bcyde
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  How have you been marketing it? What kind of sales model are you using? Do you offer a free demo? : theghostofsmdever
  • The bosses own an IT integration firm that does a lot of work in education and basically trying to sell i... : ThomW
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  Sorry to hear that, ThomW. I hope your program gets bought'd.
  
  In mostly unrelated news, we had a guy demo some analysis software for us today. It was so backwards and primitive compared to what we have developed in-house that I felt really sad for him. I hope he finds someone with no programming talent on-staff to sell his software to.

  Apr 21, 2009 2:11pm PDT
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  Sorry to hear that, ThomW. I hope your program gets bought'd. In mostly unrelated news, we had a guy d... : Goncyn
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    Note: did not mean to imply that your software is not good :( : Goncyn
    • lol Don't worry. : ThomW
• just charge everyone 25 cents per [lol] : g0nk