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Q&A with Paul B. Silverman, Author of Worm on a Chopstick: Understanding Today s Entrepreneurial Age: Directions, Strategies, Management Perspectives
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1 Page 1 Q&A with Paul B. Silverman, Author of Worm on a Chopstick: Understanding Today s Entrepreneurial Age: Directions, Strategies, Management Perspectives Author Contact Info: Paul B. Silverman Fax: website: blog: Paul B. Silverman is the author of a new entrepreneurial management strategy book Worm on a Chopstick: Understanding today s Entrepreneurial Age: Directions, Strategies, Management Perspectives ( Chopstick ). The book was released in August 2011 and highly praised by initial reviewers (http://paulbsilverman.com/books) Q. Why did you write Chopstick? A. I have been encouraged by many to share my perspectives and counsel, and that is one reason Chopstick is born. Learning should be fun - that s why this book was written to be entertaining, insightful and educational. Q. What is Chopstick s message? A. Embrace change and think enterpreneurially.
2 Page 2 Traditional business is under attack with morphing markets, technology, competition, regulatory forces, impacting every sector. Traditional business must embrace change and adapt to survive- look at Barnes & Noble and many others. But new entrepreneurial firms with explosive growth must also adapt, think traditionally, to attract resources supporting growth. And like a little critter that appears on a chopstick, these changes occur when least expected and often create chaos. Understanding how these two worlds are changing, the new rules, perspectives and strategies needed to survive and grow, is Chopstick s message. Building on real experience, solving real client, global business, and people needs in a time of great change provides the foundation for what you will find in Chopstick. Q. Where did you get the title for Worm on a Chopstick? A. One of the most often-asked questions. Chopstick s title comes from a real incident during a senior level dinner meeting in a dimly lit Tokyo restaurant many years ago. Names and places changed of course. Confronted with a what do I do now situation, where the ability to define the animal/food boundary was a real challenge, I have used this anecdote in many classroom forums to share a perspective on global business challenges, dealing with global players, unpredictability, and how to handle global social and cultural issues and survive. Some valuable lessons here. And yes, this really happened. Q. The market for management books is very crowded, so why did you write another one? A. Three reasons compelled me to write this book, the first of three in the Chopstick series. First, as an educator, I saw the opportunity to significantly enhance students education by sharing real world insights, providing real world perspectives and experiences applying what they are taught in class, what alternative techniques are used, what is important and what is not, and best practices at all levels. My experience working with many students is these perspectives are well received and make a real difference. Chopstick provides counsel to business majors at all levels, particularly in entrepreneurial programs. Secondly, my approach is unique my focus is what I call sustainable, defensible business which explores the broader issues and strategies needed for successful businesses. Chopstick
3 Page 3 shares my perspectives to assist early stage company management professionals and move them beyond the SYOB thinking (i.e., start your own business thinking) where most focus Finally, traditional companies must think entrepreneurially if they are to survive and grow given today s entrepreneurial-age tsunami. Within Chopstick I share perpectives on how larger, more traditional companies must also adapt their thinking on innovation management, new product strategy, long tail marketing and other areas to meet today s entrepreneural age challenges. But entrepreneurial companies must also adapt, moving from start-up to a sustainable business demands thinking like Traditional management. Like an unexpected critter on a chopstick, today s tsunami-like market and technology changes often occur when companies are least prepared. While other books may address some of the above points, no other management books address entrepreneurial management issues, strategies and perspectives like Chopstick. Q. Who is Chopstick s audience and why? A. Chopstick addresses three target audiences: College/MBA Students: Business majors seeking to move beyond SYOB ( start your own business ) entrepreneurship courses and gain insight on what s needed to build a sustainable, defensible business given today s entrepreneurial age tsunami. Entrepreneurial Company Founders and Managers: Founders and managers of early stage firms seeking to understand and create new strategies to address the many challenges they face, moving from an entrepreneurial to a professionally managed firm. Traditional Company Managers: Managers of traditional firms seeking new perpectives dealing with disruptive innovation, going global, long tail marketing and other forces dramatically reshaping their traditional business models
4 Page 4. While not an initial target audience, reviewers noted that policymakers seeking new entrepreneurial strategies to improve regional economic growth in the U.S. and abroad would also benefit from Chopstick, pointing to ideas I shared in Chapter 16: Entrepreneurial Leverage and Shovel Ready Projects; Perspectives for Policymakers, and the section Driving Economic Growth with Information Policy Rather than Shoveling Dirt. Q. You mention that both traditional and entrepreneurial firms face many challenges and need to develop new entrepreneurial perspectives and strategies. Can you be more specific with some examples? A. I shared many examples within Chopstick. Look at an innovation leader 3M Corporation. Was 3M s development of Post-It TM Notes and Scotchguard TM driven by careful planning, pure luck or an accident? Describing how Scotchguard was developed (Chapter 4 Innovation Frenzy: The Researcher Spilled Liquid Fluorocarbon on Her Shoe ), looking deeper, we see 3M developed a culture that encouraged innovation through policies and management. Look at Walt Disney Corporation. I share insights on Michael Eiser s leadership and strategies starting in 1984, how he redefined Disney s core business to increase Walt Disney s market capitalization from $1.8 billion to $10.3 billion within 4 years. And look at Google, clearly an entrepreneurial company. Founded in 1998 by two Stanford university students, started as a basic search engine, ramped up sales to $22 billion in 2008, and achieved a market cap of about $96 billion in January Managing innovation, how to evolve products to maximize earnings, enter new markets are critical traditional business perspectives that successful entrepreneurial companies like Google learned well.
5 Page 5 Three chapters in Chopstick share my perspectives on innovation management which emphasizes its importance to all firms. Q. Today s major companies, rather than emerging entrepreneurial companies, will continue to drive innovation and business growth since they have significant R&D investment and push the envelope creating next generation products and technologies- Is that a correct assumption? Yes and no. Companies that embrace entrepreneurial thinking as I described in Chopstick, and successfully address market, technology innovation and regulatory challenges, will play a leading role. But history has taught us leadership today does not ensure leadership tomorrow. WANG and DEC were leaders in the minicomputer market, but missed the market shift to desktop PCs. General Motors clearly tripped, missing the small car evolution, failing to capitalize on the electric car opportunities, and failing to leverage OnStar TM to offer full featured mobile information services. Barnes and Noble could have launched an online site decades ago comparable to today s Amazon model but did not; believing brick and mortar bookstores will always lead the market. It is counter-intuitive to many that smaller, entrepreneurial firms, rather than well-funded, major firms have driven most innovation in the past 5 decades- that is supported by studies and that trend will continue. Q. What is your message to entrepreneurs either launching new ventures or seeking to grow their business? A. Ensure your entrepreneurial culture drives the business, but also think and act like a larger company, using the tools, perspectives and strategies employed by larger, traditional firms- these are the critical get rights to create long term value. Difficult to balance these objectives sometimes, but that is how you build winning companies. And these skills can be learned. Q. You emphasize entrepreneurial thinking as a powerful tool that can help both emerging and traditional companies succeed, also drive regional economic growth, help address inner city economic challenges, and create jobs. Are you going too far here? Not at all. In Chopstick, I mentioned that Andy Grove, Intel s founder, estimated that so far we have achieved less than 5 percent of the Internet s real business and personal impact, implying 95 percent of the real opportunities and changes lie ahead.
6 Page 6 To paraphrase Andy Grove s quote, my vision is we have only achieved less than 5 percent of the benefits and personal impact that entrepreneurial thinking, entrepreneurship programs, strategies and creative polices will provide, implying 95 percent of the real entrepreneurship opportunities, changes and benefits lie ahead. Within Chopstick, I share my vision on some of the new entrepreneurial directions and possibilities I foresee, such as a proposed Entrepreneurship Empowerment Program ( EEP ) I developed with a colleague several years ago to help inner city entrepreneurs, both young and old, start and grow new business ventures, with both local government and business support. Looking overseas, it is clear many countries are well ahead of the U.S. in implementing successful entrepreneurship programs. For example, China s smaller businesses drive economic growth, employing about 75 percent of all urban employees, holding about 60 percent of all invention patents and accounting for about 80 percent of new products- China is pursuing a comprehensive plan to create 10,000 mostly small- and medium-size companies each year, hoping to create 100,000 new jobs. Malaysia s MSC initiative, managed within the prime minister s office, has an impressive track record, attracting 2,006 companies representing about sixty-three thousand knowledge workers. As emphasized in Chopstick, we have exciting opportunities to jumpstart economic growth by pursuing creative entrepreneurial-driven policies, and learning lessons looking globally. I strongly believe entrepreneurship drives business value creation and economic growth and do have a vision here. Exciting times lie ahead. Q. What do you see as the role for higher education in the entrepreneurial education process? A. My views here are shaped by my experience and contributing as an Adjunct Professor at 3 leading universities since 2002, teaching entrepreneurship, advanced business strategy ( Capstone ) and management courses. While there are exceptions, I do see a real gap in today s entrepreneurial education arena. On one hand, many SYOB ( start your own business ) programs exist- some more academic, some more practical, and they cover the basics on planning, launching and managing a new business. On the other hand, course exist typically embedded within a undergraduate or MBA degree curriculum, to address
7 Page 7 innovation management, maybe one or two courses covering intellectual property, innovation management and similar areas. What is missing is a more rigorous, integrated entrepreneurial education program that develops management staff capable of meeting today s regional growth needs and next-generation entrepreneurial challenges. While many overseas students pass through U.S. universities and this trend will continue, entrepreneurial education in selected countries is moving quickly and creative programs are emerging. As an example, I recently reviewed and offered some ideas on a proposed curriculum for a European university entrepreneurship program that integrated topics addressing regional economic growth creation, a high opportunity area as I noted in Chopstick. The proposed program also covered broader management skills than typically found in SYOB programs, similar to management skills I covered in Chopstick. We can do much more in the entrepreneurial education area and I expect to be offering some recommendations and new ideas here in coming months. Q. What do you want readers to gain after reading Chopstick? A. The closing paragraph in Chopstick s Introduction sums it up best and is reprinted below: Dealing with today s entrepreneurial age changes demands new thinking; new ways of looking at today s changes, new perspectives, and a more nuanced, philosophical approach to understand and adapt to change. And these needs are the drivers for Chopstick, sharing with readers a practical, entertaining, and informative perspective about today s entrepreneurial age challenges and new ways to meet them. I do try to cover a lot of ground in Chopstick, moving quickly, hopefully challenging your traditional thinking. After finishing Chopstick, if you have gained some new ways of looking at today s challenges and opportunities, perhaps learned a few new tools, have lots of questions and more curiosity and passion for what lies ahead, then I have accomplished my mission. ===============================================================================
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BlueVine provides advance funding for pending invoices, which is claimed to help business owners bridge the gap between when they bill and when they get paid.
About BlueVine
One of the most frustrating parts of being a small business owner is scraping by each month when clients don't pay their invoices.
BlueVine is a business-to-business startup that offers advances on invoice payments ("factoring") up to $500,000, as well as lines of credit up to $50,000.
BlueVine is a Palo Alto startup that offers to small businesses (SMB's) lines of credit as well as factoring, a popular service in which a company like BlueVine pays a big portion of the invoice in advance (for a fee, of course) to make sure your company has the cash flow to keep operating. Payments are made on the same day of your application or the following day.
The company's CEO, Eyal Lifshitz, recently wrapped up a $40 million round of funding that included major cash from Citibank. He graduated from the prestigious University of Chicago Booth School of Business and worked at Texas Instruments, McKinsey & Company and a pair of investment firms.
The company has solid roots and funding, but we wanted to know about the kinds of products they offer. We also wanted to figure out what borrowers and other companies are saying about Blue Vine, as well as answer the all-important question: Is BlueVine the right solution for your company?
As a small business ourselves, we know how important it is to have cash on hand to pay employees, move forward with projects and keep operations running smoothly. Is BlueVine the company that will help you do that? Keep reading!
As we mentioned before, the company offers lines of credit and invoice factoring. Since these are two distinct types of loans, we're going to look at each one individually
Invoice Factoring: What Are The Amounts and Fees?
BlueVine's invoice factoring page claims that they can provide credit lines of $20,000 to $500,000.
How To Get The Funding
After providing them information about your business (including your social security number), the company looks at your credit history, your clients' reputation, your company's earnings and other factors to determine if and how much they'll advance to you.
Once approved, you sync your accounting software with their site so you can seamlessly request advance payment on invoices of your choosing and have your customers pay invoices through BlueVine.
However, you should take note of the basic requirements for applying:
- You must have a credit score of at least 530
- Your company has to have been in business for at least three months
- Monthly revenue is at least $10,000 per month
- Is business-to-business or business-to-government
Now, stop for a minute and think about what those requirements say. BlueVine is willing to lend you money even if you have a terrible credit score. Your business doesn't need that much revenue, and it doesn't have to be but three months old.
To us, these requirements allow people who would otherwise not be able to receive a loan from a bank – 80 percent of SMB's, according to Lifshitz – to get money when common sense says it's not a good idea.
But part of the way BlueVine determines your financial standing is by assessing the reliability of your clients. So, even if you don't have a great credit history or financial record, you could get factoring based on the good reputation of your clients
The Fees You Can Expect to Pay
Up-Front Fee
BlueVine charges a 0.4 to 1 percent up-front fee for the factoring amount the give you. Your fee, manager David Clayton told us, varies from other companies based on several factors that include your creditworthiness and the creditworthiness of your clients.
Late Penalty
A late fee of 3 percent is assessed two weeks after your client was due to pay the invoice. It doesn't seem like that much, especially if you've never borrowed large sums of money.
If you're a small business who took an advance out on a $40,000 invoice, however, 3 percent becomes a $1,200 late fee, which is pretty hefty.
If the balance is paid in the third week after the due date, the late fee is returned and you're all square. However, if the invoice isn't paid after the third week, you'll pay every week at an interest rate of between 0.2 and 0.3 percent per day, BlueVine Manager David Clayton told us.
David went on to say that BlueVine is discerning in who they accept for the factoring program, telling us they try to avoid businesses who are faltering and need factoring to continuously bail them out of theirfinancial woes.
Aside from the late fee and per-day interest charge on overdue accounts, you'll pay a $15 fee every time BlueVine money is wired to your account. ACH transfers, however, are free. BlueVine isn't charging you a lot on the little things, and that's because, we believe, they make their money off the terms of their line-of-credit program.
Lines of Credit: What Are The Amounts and Fees?
According to BlueVine's website, SMB's can apply for lines of credit up to $50,000. A business can use all of that money or part of it without added penalties or fees.
The requirements for getting a line of credit are a little different than they are with invoice factoring. According to BlueVine's FAQ's, borrowers must have:
- A credit score of at least 600, not 530
- A business that's been operating at least 6 months, not 3 months
- Revenues of at least $5,000 per month
The Fees You Can Expect to Pay
A line of credit is different than factoring because a line of credit is given as a loan, kind of like how you charge things to your credit card and pay those purchases back with interest.
Factoring is a bit more secure because you've already done the work for the money and are getting paid ahead of time. So, unless your client bails out on you, you only pay an up-front advance fee; no daily interest charges apply.
According to David Clayton, line-of-credit payments are due weekly and carry an interest rate between 0.4 and 1.2 per week. Borrowers have 26 weeks to pay off their loans.
So, if you borrow $40,000, weekly interest at 1 percent would be $400. Each month you'd pay $1,200, which amounts to an APR of 36 percent, which is, in our opinion an extremely high fee.
Those fees don't seem to be bothering BlueVine's reviewers, though, the majority of whom have good things to say about the company.
What Are Other People Saying About BlueVine?
We found that nearly 500 reviewers on two different websites rate BlueVine well:
- Intuit's App Center: 255 reviewers gave a 4.5-star rating
- Trust Pilot: 5 stars from 170 reviews
- Merchant Maverick: Writer Bianca Crouse gave the site 4.5 stars
Many of the positive reviews we read praised the site's ease of use and the speed with which they get their money.
Our Final Thoughts: Is BlueVine a Good Fit For You?
Since BlueVine offers two different types of financial help, we're going to split this conclusion into advice about factoring and advice about lines of credit.
Factoring is Helpful But Can Be Expensive
BlueVine's invoice factoring service can give a huge boost to a company whose clients pay 30 or 60 days after services were given or completed.
Having those huge gaps of income can really put a business in a jam, especially if they're just starting out or are looking to expand their staff. No SMB owner wants to close the doors on his or her dream just because clients weren't paying up.
David gave us a great example of this, citing a customer who is competing with bigger companies who can afford to wait 30 or 60 days for invoice payments.
"I was talking to a guy in the manufacturing and distribution industry. He uses BlueVine because his competitors give clients the chance to pay after 60 days," David said. "This guy is small and he doesn't have cash to wait 30 or 60 days for payment."
Remember, though that you're on the hook for a big penalty as well as daily interest penalties if you don't pay up. Our advice? Only apply for factoring if you know your clients are slow to pay but reliable. If you don't have the cash flow to cover an unpaid invoice, it can cost you a ton of money.
However, we do like that BlueVine offers a two-week grace period after the invoice due date and that the 3-percent penalty is waived if you pay the invoice before the three-weeks past due deadline.
Lines of Credit Carry High Fees
For entrepreneurs who find themselves in a tough financial spot or want a little extra cash for purchases, BlueVine offers a really easy way to secure a line of credit. That credit comes at a price, though.
BlueVine's weekly rate of 0.4 to 1.2 percent may not sound like a lot, but when you crunch the numbers like we did a few minutes ago, a weekly charge of 1 percent actually equates to some really high APR's.
In our opinion, BlueVine is a little different than other consumer websites offering lines of credit. They seem to try and weed out problem borrowers/accounts by vetting each applicant's financial stability as well as the stability of their clients.
"We do a lot of checks from both public and non-public sources," David said. "We use those and our algorithms yield a net score of someone's overall financial strength of their business and that's what we use to determine who we'll work with."
Determine Your Need and the Cost
But, just as we advise the average consumer to be wary of companies offering quick cash, we're advising you to take a moment and assess your company's financial standing and your personal creditworthiness before taking out a line of credit with them:
- Do you absolutely, 100% need the money right now?
- Are you willing to pay between 0.4 and 1.2 percent each week to borrow the money?
- Do you have the discipline to pay back your line of credit on time?
If you answer "no" to any of those questions, we recommend holding off on using a service like BlueVine to acquire extra money. Take a moment to get to the root of the problem and ask yourself if a same-day loan is the answer.
You might also want to consider other factoring companies on the market. Fundbox is an example of a relatively new startup who offers some of the same services as BlueVine. Click here to read our review about Fundbox.
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Ridiculous interest rates. They'll kill your line of credit at any time. Then you'll have to repay your ENTIRE loan before you can draw from it. Even if you've been in good standing with them. Customer service is terrible. Beware. Do NOT take credit from this company.
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Jun 28, 2017
Thank you for your feedback, and we're sorry you had a negative experience with us.
BlueVine is committed to responsible lending practices. We use the latest available financial and reporting information to ensure the best possible credit decisions for our customers and aim to avoid situations that might put a client at risk.
Our decision was based on a consideration of various factors, enclosed in the letter you received on 6/11/2017.
For additional questions, please feel free to reach contact us at 888-216-9619 or email@example.com.
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BlueVine is unreliable
I was originally a factoring client of BlueVine and the experience was positive.
They started to offer flex credit (credit line), and I started using that service, initially with good results. But over time, the BlueVine became completely unreliable and vague in their reasoning for not allowing credit or certain credit limits.
I have been using Fundbox since, and without incident.
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Thank you for your feedback. We are sorry to hear that you became dissatisfied with our service. We would like to learn more about your experience. Our goal is to be transparent in working with our clients and to be clear about our underwriting policies. Your insights could help us find ways to improve our services. Please give us a call at (888) 216-9619 or send us an email at email@example.com.
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0 out 2 people found this review helpful
A life saver!The best company ever! Just log in an invoice and get paid the next day. Of course your client must be a reputable company. This is great for small companies working for large clients that take 30 days or more to pay.
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Bitcoin has been doing rounds in the internet communities and among the net-geeks for some time now.But the most important factor that is virtually less discussed is its legality. Legality of Bitcoin in India is yet to come up under the mainstream radars of the top governing bodies like RBI . But in the coming days you can expect it to happen soon.


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The monarch butterfly, with its easily recognizable orange and black pattern, will only lay its eggs on milkweed plants, the primary food source for monarch caterpillars. The disappearance of milkweed from the monarch's habitat has greatly impacted its population. Individuals can help by planting native milkweed in their gardens. Visit www.plantmilkweed.org for information on creating habitat for monarchs. This beautiful book mark is solid brass, electro-plated with non-tarnishing silver finish, giclee print. Approx. 1" W x 4" L


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As you might have heard from your conservative friends who watch Fox News and are proposing that we reject Syrian refugees because of the massacre in San Bernardino, most mass shootings are committed by Muslims.
Unfortunately for them, reality couldn't be further from the truth.
As this timely map by the Washington Post indicates, only a tiny, minuscule, and negligible fraction of mass shootings last year were committed by Muslims:
In fact, only 3 out of hundreds of mass shootings in 2015 were committed by a Muslim suspect. Most were — you guessed it — committed by Christian males.
So why is the far right freaking out? Because they are pushing a xenophobic, Islamophobic, and bigoted agenda that seeks to create mass hysteria in order to justify enriching the military-industrial complex with massive government contracts.
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How far can you make it inside bullet cave?
1) Don't let enemies pass you or spikes will grow from behind
2) Shooting (Z) enemies grows the cave; avoid the walls
3) Use your freeze power (X) to invert enemies and make the cave shrink
4) Collect power-ups to change your weapon and gain freeze power
Can you unlock all 20 items? 10 themes and 10 character ships available
- Ship designs from @guerragames @qbicfeet @westfellapps @joshmillard @pixelartm
- Original music by Brian Follick, @Gnarcade_VGM
- 6 weapons of destruction
- 20 unlockables
Plays great on the PocketCHIP too, just search for "bullet cave" in Splore.
Please report any bugs in a reply or message @morningtoast on Twitter.
This is one that only PocketCHIP people will be able to test and use.
By chance, I discovered that the mouse click (touchscreen) detection in Pico-8 looks at the entire screen on the PocketCHIP, not just the 128x128 viewport of the game.
So while the player will always only see the 128x128 box in the middle of the screen, you can detect when the person touches the screen to the left or right of that 128px box. So by all rights, you can make a Pico-8 game that uses touchscreen controls without requiring the player to touch the game screen area.
The width of the PocketCHIP screen is 480px total, so after some quick napkin math, I figured that there's about 176 pixels on each side. I made 2 collision boxes on either side of the game viewport (so -176 and 128, with a width of 176 and height of 127)
Then just a normal collision script combined with the handy mouse click detection function and boom, you have touch controls for your game.
The cart above just moves the little guy left/right and that's it - just proof of concept. Again, you'll have to try it on your PocketCHIP. This doesn't seem to work with the Pico8 client (at least on Windows)...even if you make your window super wide, it won't register the click.
Here's a YouTube video of it in action (couldn't figure out embedding):
And now that I think about it, I think I might add this little feature to my Invader Overload cart. If you're using the auto-fire option, all you do is move left/right, so with this touch thing, you could play the game without ever having to press a key on the PocketCHIP keyboard.
How to Play
Collect 3 of the same the color power-ups to gain a powerful new weapon.
Shoot the UFO and collect the yellow power-ups to kick off fever mode!
Collect enough fever mode coins to enter a boss battle
This game is endless. Survive as long as you can while chasing a high score.
Left/Right move
Z shoots your gun (hold for auto-fire)
v1.7.2 - Fixed incorrect hitbox on UFO. Minor cleanup.
v1.7.1 - Fixed a crash bug in the background randomizer
v1.7 - Holidays are over...removed snow and Santa. Few minor fixes.
v1.6 - Holiday edition! Added shield powerup. Better manual fire. Boot up credits.
v1.5 - Bug fix for touchscreen added in 1.4
v1.4 - Touch controls for PocketCHIP. Touch sides of screen to move player.
v1.3 - Added auto/manual option for better PocketCHIP play. General cleanup.
v1.2 - Added boss battles between stages plus boss battle music.
About the game
Programmed by Brian Vaughn (@morningtoast)
Music by Brian Follick (@gnarcade_vgm)
Backgrounds from the Pico-8 Community
This cart is less about the game and more about the people that contributed to it. It's tribute game in more ways than one.
First off, it's a tribute to Space Invaders Extreme that originally appeared on the Nintendo DS. It was Space Invaders kicked up a notch with a total sensory overload.
Second, it's a tribute and thank you to all the great little carts coming out of the Pico-8 forum. In particular, Invader Overload uses several of the carts from the TweetJam thread as manic backgrounds. Designs from zep, NuSan, kometbomb and others are included and create one hell of a show.
There were so many cool little demos coming out of the TweetJam thread that I just needed to find a way to use them. I consider Invader Overload a sort of TweetJam jukebox and hopefully we can all expand on it because you can totally add your own background! There's plenty of room left on the cart so give it a try.
This cart also features some great music from Brian Follick, aka, @gnarcade_vgm. He made a great music track specifically for this game along with a few sound effects, and without that collaboration, this game would have fallen completely flat.
BuzzKill is a classic arcade style shooter. Stop the onslaught of killer bees using your smoke and fireballs.
- 10 levels of tough, bee-killing action
- High score saving
- Unlockable endless mode
- Arrows move left/right
- Z shoots fireballs
- X blows smoke
You must clear all bees, hives and honeycombs to advance levels.
Attacking uses power. The more power you have, the faster your shots. Stop firing to regenerate power. Keep an eye on your power meter.
Blow smoke to freeze honeycombs, slow bees and block shots. You can only shoot honeycombs when they're frozen.
An extra life is awarded when you reach 200 bee kills.
Complete challenge mode to unlock endless mode and see how long you can last.
Thanks to Robby Duguay for making the music and making it available. BuzzKill features 3 tracks from his Pico-8 Jukebox.
Super thanks to the Pico-8 community. BuzzKill was built on top of many code snippets found on the forums, and without those it wouldn't have gotten this far.
And while you're at it, check out my other game carts including Invader Overload and Bullet Cave.
v1.3 - Enemy shots now at variable speed. Boss now awards points. Few extra sounds. Menu options. Added boot credits.
Keyboard controls
Move - Arrow keys
Shoot - Z or X
My first Pico-8 game following the Game Jam...another shooter, and a very basic side-scrolling one. Time limit style to try and get the most points.
This is also a very real "lessons learned" type of game where I took all the things I learned from the jam and applied them here. I also tried to push myself in a few places to get better.
My first goal for this game was to get better and making sprites. My original theme for this was not a flying lumberjack but it turned out that way, so my sprites are squirrels, trees and jet packs...all in all, not too shabby. I at least proved to myself that making my own sprites is not that far off. However, while my art abilities got a shot in the arm, my sound making skill is totally non-existent. No music and the sounds are horrible. If anyone cares to fill in the blanks, please let me know!
Technically, this game was my chance to practice something that wasn't just a bunch of randomness. All the waves, routes and patterns were chosen and defined. I feel I got the concept down but still need to work on architecture to make things efficient...I think I wasted a lot of space/overhead but hey, it's working. I also made use of saving a high score and it's very easy.
I'm happy with this game in that it shows a lot of progress since my last game, Mass 360, for the jam. Hopefully I can take everything here and parlay that into my next game.
Few things I learned for next time:
Libraries are great but expensive. I knew this already from my daily job and it still applies here. I used the particle library for the explosions and blood I know it's overkill.
Think about bosses and milestones first. I spent a lot of time planning out the waves, patterns and sequences but not a lot of time on the end boss (and it shows). Thing is, by the time I got to the end, I was kind of anxious to get done so I rushed. I was ready to be done so I chose to be and I probably shouldn't have.
Splitting sprites into parts is nifty. I was looking sprite sheets from other games and noticed how they would split up their sheets into parts. Like legs moving was it's own sequence, separate from the top half so you could animate them independently.
Timers are a bitch. Seems like you need a lot of them...or at least, I needed a lot of them. It feels wrong needing them so much, so I'm probably making them poorly.
- I can do pixels but not a sound. I have an art background so learning how to paint in pixels is just a matter of time. But poking around with the sound editor is mind-numbing. I'm not a sound/music guy, I'm just not. Boops and beeps for me, so I need to find collaborators for that stuff.
So please give it a play and see how well you can do. It's not a difficult game by any means. Even shooters aren't your bag, give it go.
Any and all feedback is appreciated. Thanks to everyone here for sharing their knowledge. I used snippets from various posts for various things...from timers to particles to large numbers. I really just assembled all these parts into something with flying squirrels.
This started out as something entirely different but morphed into something pretty personal. It's not the best looking thing and it gets really hectic near the end, even for my shmup tastes, but wanted to get this up sooner than later. I might not return to this before the Jam deadline...hopefully I will.
Arrows - Rotate player
Z - Fire
X - Continue
P - Options menu
Auto-fire is enabled by default. Use the options menu to toggle auto-fire and music.
Feedback is welcomed. I have a short list of things to tweak like better sounds, difficulty balance, level transitions and extras like power-ups but otherwise there is a goal/end so if I'm unable to get anything else done before the deadline, it is a complete game.
Each level is randomly generated within some parameters I set in the code. And shy of the title screen, there are no sprites...not that that's special, just saying. I think it'd be neat to see this game with some actual art behind it.
v1.0.1 - Changed up a few difficult settings to make progression a little better. You start with less time and damage takes away more time.
v1.2 - Several wish list things like sounds, transitions, feedback, etc. Plus lots of code cleanup.
v.13 - Added music, courtesy Brian Follick. Minor cleanup and balancing.
- Arrows move you around
- X will start a new level
This is my first game of sorts. I made it for my preschooler and as a way for me to learn some P8 basics. There's not much to it. Presents release food, then collect all the food until you get them all. There's no end, per se, the collection goal just keeps going up. If this ends up being something she enjoys, I'll add things to it but if nothing else this is a great reference for my future projects.
And thanks to everyone here on the forums...I learned a lot about some the nuances of Lua and it came in handy.
I used the animation function from here:
I copied food sprites from here:
I couldn't find the thread where I got the collision function but thank you!
Once nice experience I had with this program was the refactoring. My first dive into this game was just hacking through new commands and learning. Once I got that to a workable state, I refactored it in about 2 hours to be pretty nicely laid out, IMHO. Still learning where to gain efficiencies but hey, it's a start.
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CarbonCure's technology created environmentally friendly, high-quality concrete by injecting carbon dioxide gas captured from nearby smokestacks into concrete products during the mixing phase. The gas converts into a solid calcium carbonate mineral thus never escaping into the atmosphere.
Johnson Concrete Company Vice President Charles Newsome believes that the company completed all of the necessary research before reaching the decision to license CarbonCure Masonry Technology, "We completed extensive due diligence into the viability of the technology, and its potential to create value for Johnson Concrete, and we are now pleased to offer our customers concrete products with a reduced carbon footprint.
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Commentary by Dorothy Height
Early in 1963, I led a diverse team of women to help a civil rights group, the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee, register voters in Selma, Ala. For three weeks, hundreds of young students had been arrested for their efforts to secure black voter rights and were being held in makeshift jails across the city.
Some of these black students were brought to a Baptist church under police guard. While we convened a meeting with these students, some of our colleagues, who were white, ventured into Selma to organize the city's white women leaders. But even they had no success, as attitudes were firmly entrenched and voting rights for blacks were neither protected by federal law nor actively encouraged.
Back at the church, the students told us that they had been arrested for trying to register their parents and other adults to vote. They also shared their frightening jailhouse experiences. I later asked them whether they felt any good white people lived in Selma. A young boy said wistfully, "There must be some." My group left the city the next morning, and when the courts opened, I was charged with "contributing to the delinquency of minors." By that time, I was safely in New York.
It would take two more years, and much bloodshed, before a successful civil rights march led by Martin Luther King Jr. from Selma to the capitol in Montgomery powerfully, but peacefully, delivered the message that blacks would not be denied their right to vote. A few months later, President Johnson made that right a reality by signing the Voting Rights Act into law.
Forty years later, reauthorization of that hard-fought right is being blocked by a few House Republicans from southern states. Most of these obstructionists want to lift a provision that requires close federal oversight of nine states with histories of discrimination.
This is no time to let up. The blatant voting tactics once used against blacks — from poll taxes to literacy tests to intimidation — have been replaced by more subtle barriers. Redistricting, abrupt changes in the location of polling places and manipulation of new voting technologies are a few commonly reported complaints that tell us why the law is still necessary today.
The law has also produced significant results. Before it, the number of black women holding U.S. elective office was about 100, according to research by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies. Today, they account for more than 3,000 of the 9,100-plus black elected officials at the local, state and national levels.
But the work is not finished. Reauthorization of this act would be an apt way to celebrate Independence Day and show the world that we back up our global promotion of democracy with integrity at home.
Longtime civil rights activist Dorothy Height is chair emerita of the National Council of Negro Women.


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We went to the Grand Isle Resort on a whim and wow what a beautiful resort. The accomodations were top notch (comparible to high end Maui), the staff very friendly and the beach exellent (soft white sand). The colour of the water was picture post card perfect blue. Great snorkling, pool and lounging. We took our teenage children and they had a great time. The resort supplies golf carts to get around (nice touch).
If your looking for lots of activities (tours, sight seeing etc) it is limited but then again we would of gone to Florida if that's what we wanted. Totally R&R. Food is good in the restaurant or you can bring your own or purchase in local stores (not close-taxi). The unit kitchens are top end.
Gated so we felt 100% safe, off and on the resort.
Would definately go again.
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Comparing the Big Five
Browsers have many security features that help the end user avoid being bitten by malware, as well as some privacy protections.
All five browsers have pop-up blockers, anti-phishing filters, and password protection. Except for Opera, they allow for private session browsing where the browser saves nothing from the session that can be used to track your online movements -- no browsing history, no cookies, no temporary Internet files, and so on.
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But only two, Internet Explorer and Firefox, have the coolest browser security feature of all: configurable security zones, which let end users set up different levels of security for Web sites based on their trustworthiness.
These browser security features play an important role in keeping the end user safe. They also vary from browser to browser: some browsers have certain features, others do not. And some browsers are simply better at security than others. Here's a quick look at each of the five browsers.
Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 beta 2
Cons: Explorer's popularity makes it the primary target of hackers. Its unique support of ActiveX (another way malicious exploits get into a computer) poses an additional security threat that other browsers don't have.
Takeaway: Internet Explorer's superior security controls should be weighed against the fact that it's the most frequently attacked browser in the world.
Pros: This battle-tested veteran has security zones and a built-in add-on manager that allows you to easily turn off add-ons and JavaScript.
Cons: Setting up security zones isn't easy.
Takeaway: Firefox makes a good browser choice for PC users. In terms of security granularity and choices of controls, it's second only to Internet Explorer.
Pros: Safari boasts the most accurate anti-phishing filter and always prompts users before downloading files. Safari (like Chrome) does a good job at blocking unwanted cookies.
Cons: Lacks security zones and the ability to turn off add-ons.
Takeaway: While Safari is a great looking browser, it's a mixed bag with respect to security. Still, Safari -- if fully patched and running on a fully patched system -- can be a secure environment.
Pros: Opera has extensive security controls and good protections against "denial-of-service" attacks.
Cons: Lacks security zones, the ability to turn off add-ons, and private-session browsing. Its lack of support for key Windows security features may put it at higher risk of buffer overflow attacks.
Takeaway: Opera is a great browser but hasn't been exposed to the crucible of constant attacks. Support for Windows' Data Execution Prevention and Address Layout Space Randomization features is needed before its use can be more highly recommended.
Pros: JavaScript runs inside a virtual machine, thus providing some containment. Chrome (like Safari) does a good job at blocking unwanted cookies.
Takeaway: The security model Chrome follows is excellent, but the security choices Google has made for its browser are often abysmal. More troubling, the vulnerabilities that have been found in Chrome are simple and common ones that Google easily should have avoided.


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