Podcast #9 Is Now Available

The ninth of our podcast series is now up and available. The audio portion can be found here as Podcast #9. The student maps, a syllabus, and other materials have been stored here as Supplemental Material .

The series assumes you have access to a computer that has Version 7 or Version 8 of Mind Manager installed, either the product or the trial version.

In this ninth episode we look at structured Brainstorming.

We use maps for creativity techiques, such as Fishbone Diagram, SWOT Analysis, and a Morphological Box as examples.

I am interested in your opinions. I am also interested in what future topics would be of interest. We are at the half-way point of the series, give or take an episode. Write a comment to this blog post or drop us a note at Podcast =(at)= piqueroinc.com .

DBA

I'm thinking of offering photographs through a micro-stock site. I usually (c) Igor's Laboratory rather than Piquero Insights. I've been using Igor Laboratory since college. I have it on my amateur radio QSL cards.

So, to differentiate my teaching and consulting from the photo efforts, I've used a different name. But it doesn't make sense to create a new corporation or LLC. I decided to register an "Assumed Name" with the county. Essentially telling the county clerk, "Here's who this business really is." Costs $16 and a trip to Georgetown, but other than that it's not a painful process.

Now the real entrepreneur is the guy that called me at 9AM to ask if I needed credit card processing for Igor's Laboratory? Obviously he checks the county's public records every morning for new businesses. Can the credit card offers be far behind?