RB Bruce » Startup

New Project: Legalized Software

RB — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 05:52:52 +0000

Over the past couple of months, I have been working on a new company. The project is Legalized Software and the first product is called Legal Alerts. Legal Alerts is a Government 2.0 project that targets lawyers in Oklahoma County, Tulsa County, and several other counties to provide them with timely updates about the current cases they are working on.

I have always had the utmost respect for the law and I know enough to keep myself out of trouble. Besides this basic information, I don’t know much about the practice of law. I was approached by a gentleman lawyer, Shawn Roberts, with a problem and we put our heads together and came up with the simplest solution possible to prove that we had a solution. From that point on we started to iterate and add features to the idea. The idea changed to a tool then to a product. We recruited beta testers and continued to iterate. Finally we reached a point of what we felt was minimal product viability, plus all the testers loved it!

Shawn and I are both proud to announce the launch of our joint venture, Legalized Software. Please take a few moments and check it out. If you know a lawyer practicing in Oklahoma please spread the word to them.

I learned many new lessons with this project and I look forward to many more. I plan to post a few of these lessons here.

Yackall: Mobile Chat – RB Bruce

RB — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 05:47:27 +0000

At Openbeta3, I gave a presentation on doing a web-based startup in Oklahoma City. We had 5 minutes and 20 slides, one every 15 seconds. This was my first talk in this format. It was a bit rough, but fun.

Past, Present and Future of Digg with Kevin Rose

RB — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 06:18:44 +0000

This is a great interview with Kevin Rose of Digg.com. It starts out with a bit of history of how Digg was in the early days. It follows with a history of where they are now. The interviewer is able to get a few bits of information about where Digg.com will go next. The interviewer is a bit annoying.

This video gives a bit of insight to a well established company and how they got to their current condition. I think it is a good history lesson on Digg.com.