Author Bio
The Fort Worth Startup Blog is part of the SpringStage Startup Blog Network. Alexander Muse started the network in 2005 when he published his first post on the Texas Startup Blog. Today his blog has more than 1,500 articles on entrepreneurship and venture capital and has garnered international attention with more than 50,000 regular readers. In 2008, Alexander and his team expanded the network to all fifty states, with plans to expand outside of the United States over the next year. The Fort Worth Startup Blog is authored by Bradley Joyce.
Bradley currently works for Squeejee, a relatively young Texas-based Ruby on Rails development shop. Aside from numerous client projects like Mindbites.com, Squeejee is working on its own web applications including:
Tweet Congress is a twitter mashup that allows you to search and discover which United States Congress people are using twitter. If your congress person is not on Twitter, you can sign a petition urging them to join the conversation. Tweet Congress is all about open, transparent government and also inspired Tweetminster in the UK.
TickStart is a team-oriented productivity and time-tracking application. We tried just about every other app that’s out there and didn’t find anything that really suited our needs, so we built it ourselves. TickStart is different in that it focuses more on the business functions of time-tracking, such as productivty, revenue vs. expenses (for your people), and gives you granular reports such as revenue per project per person. You can signup for the TickStart beta at http://tickstart.com
Bradley’s other entrepreneurial ventures currently in the works include:
- Velocis Web Technologies, a Fort Worth web design/development and SEO company
- RustyTripod.com, an e-commerce store featuring digital cameras, equipment and accessories as well as a community for photographers and photophiles.
- Featurefy.com - Hosted applications for enhancing Shopify e-commerce stores.
- Hire-Engineers.com - An online job board for engineering jobs
After studying Aerospace Engineering and working at The Boeing Company, Bradley decided he wasn’t cut out for big corporate culture and shifted gears to turn his long-time web design/development hobby into a career. When not working on one of his many projects, you can find him playing guitar, spending time with his wife and two boxers (Roxy and Mac) and finishing up his B.S. in Information Systems at UT Arlington. Connect with Bradley via:
