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I was interviewed on a podcast with Scott Wisniewski about StartPad (and Scott's Transactor backup utility for developers).
1 FaverShareChander was featured at the latest Wireless and Entertainment conference - click on Mjedi Pitch to see the video highlights.
1 FaverShareViewed: 3 TimesQuoted: Experience all of the exciting sights and sounds from the show floor at International CTIA WIRELESS I.T. & Entertainment® 2009 - videos, show floor photos, podcasts, and more!
In order to get our projector to show inverted images go to:
Menu/Settings/System/Ceiling
You'd think this would be in the Picture menu - but it's not!
1 FaverShareViewed: 1 Time1 FaverShareViewed: 2 TimesQuoted: Losing your job at Microsoft? An entrepreneurial group in downtown Seattle wants to help out. In response to the layoff announcement today, high-tech incubator StartPad.org said it would offer 30 free days of office space, free Internet access and other perks to any former Microsoft employee who is interested in dipping his or her toes in the startup ...
This is the culprit in our email from StartPad having disclosed BCC fields in our outgoing mail.
1 FaverShareViewed: 4 TimesDamon's Twitter Statistics site. Really cool visualizations about how you're using twitter - see how many tweets you send at different times of the day, where they are coming from, etc.
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Nice blog post by Tony Wright on focusing your energies on improving your conversion funnel.
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This is a very interesting loan product from BECU and has the potential of being one of the best 1st time mortgages for buyers that qualify.
It is called the "Helper" (HLPR) loan. Basically, it's aimed at 1st time buyers buying their first home, but it should also be useful for people who have already sold their homes and are looking for another.
There are income restrictions, credit restrictions and other guidelines, but this particular HLPR product (there are several others, see BECU's site) purports to have an ARM rate that is about 1% lower than the "going" rate. Based on my experience, their fees are also lower than most of the major banks.
This type of loan is great for someone that is looking at short-term ownership of a property. I spoke with several industry pros and they all believe that BECU is probably not making any money - perhaps even losing money - on this loan, but may be using it to bring borrowers into other BECU products that may be profitable.
BECU has had a reputation of being difficult to work with in the past and very slow to respond. It seems that now, though, they've cleaned up their act. They've got 24-hour mortgage reps and a lot of the process has been stream-lined and placed online. This loan is not for everyone, though, and it may not apply to every purchase. In particular, borrowers may have difficulty obtaining loans on new or conversion condos that are not FNMA approved. I spoke with several BECU reps and their answers were all over the board about this.
More info on the site.
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