Ted Murphy Ted Murphy’s Personal Blog

I have been working on a new super-secret project with the IZEA team for the past couple of months. While the new service has many aspects, one of the bets we are making is huge growth in mobile photo sharing via smart phones. I love the quality of my digital SLR, but I rarely have [...]

Anyone who has worked with me knows that I am not a huge fan of meetings. I like my meetings short, sweet, small and productive. I think my distaste for meetings came out of my experience running agencies. In the agency business time is literally money. Every minute you spend is either billable (costs the [...]

The other day I was sitting in a meeting with my lead developers at IZEA. I asked each of them a question I often ask, “how are you feeling?” I went around the table and most of them said “good” – with one exception. That individual responded with “I’m nervous” to which I responded, “good, [...]

If you are like me you have a huge collection of iTunes music that is mislabeled and/or doesn’t have cover art. Enter TuneUp for iTunes. TuneUp is a simple app that acts as an extension to iTunes. It allows you to scrub through your music library and “automagically” clean everything up. One second your track [...]

So you have decided to start your own business. You have done your research, created your business plan and have some money to get started. Great! Now what? Well, the first thing you need to do is create a legal entity so you can request a federal tax id, setup a bank account and so [...]