Friday, August 8, 2008

BigLeapGPS LLC. receives investment from private source and SCLaunch!

BigLeapGPS LLC., a disruptive GPS technology start up focused on the licensing, engineering and delivery of the world's smallest personal GPS device, is pleased to announce receiving seed investment from a private source as well as a product development grant from SCLaunch!

“We are excited that after a year of hard work we are finally on our way,” said Joe Milam, the founder of BigLeapGPS, LLC.

BigLeapGPS LLC. is a company that is focused on delivering safety and peace-of-mind through the application of wireless networks, GPS location and software technology.

The BigLeapGPS device is a non-obtrusive, easy to use, and highly customizable solution for use in multiple markets from asset tracking to personal protection. All BigLeapGPS devices are tied to a 24/7 web portal for accurate, real time and historical device location anywhere in the GSM cellular world.

The BigLeapGPS story started nearly one year ago after an unsuccessful search for a small GPS device for protecting children. The passion for child protection translated into some amazing innovation that will change the way manufacturers build personal GPS devices.

For details on their technology please contact Joe at jmilam@bigleapgps.com

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Friday, August 1, 2008

My "Stinky" Motivation

Here is a funny story I wanted to share about one of the core elements that continues to motivate me to create and launch my ideas...

About 4 years ago I had an idea... underwear that would absorb any gas issues one would have. Let me say this was not a personal issue, I just thought it was a good idea... that small note was for all of you who were snickering out there. So basically the underwear would absorb your stinky gas and instead of making your neighbor in the car suffer they would instead be treated to the smell of roses, a fresh breeze, Hell... anything but what it actually smelled like. So I called up my brother-in-law who is a chemical engineer and asked him how we could do it. After he laughed for a while he said he would think about it. Well, we never talked about it again.

So I was sitting in traffic in Atlanta one afternoon when low and behold I heard something I could not believe. An interview with some guys who had done what I thought up a few years before... http://www.flat-d.com/technology1.html .

I called my brother-in-law up that night and told him what I had heard... I told him right then, that this would not happen again. And again I am not sure he heard me because he was laughing still at me.

This was my one idea, albeit a stinky one, that got away and I now look at every good idea I have very closely because I DO NOT want what happened with my underwear to happen again.

I know a lot of you have similar stories of ideas you had that you did not carry through with but someone did.. if you have them, please post them as a reply to this.

These missed opportunities should motivate you to create, create, create and not just come up with an idea and sit on it or in the case of my idea, take it a step further and gas it to death.