How Steve Jobs ended up sleeping with my wife and I every night for year

My wife and I had been talking about "it" for sometime. "It" was in the news, everybody was talking about "it" and everywhere we went "it" was everywhere! So what praytell are you asking is "it?" "it", is Steve Jobs !

Yes that! Steve Jobs who created all the really cool it's that are slowly taking over the world one person at a time. But that's getting ahead of myself and I need to explain how Steve Jobs ended up in my bedroom with me and my wife and why he is still there nightly, to this day!

You see the other "it" that JOBS created was the iPhone . Now before you start passing judgement on my wife and i about that "it" know first that we avoided "it" in the beggining.

When the iPhone came out we where not in line for a week hoping to be one of the first citizens to hold the mighty iPhone. In fact we were not even at the 2, 3rd, or 4th launch (wait if we are on the 3GS... well you get what I am saying) we patiently waited till the iPhone was the top or more commonly known as the "it."

Once JOBS' was the "it" device to have we still waited for it to fit into our tech heavy lives and provide to us the functionality that our previous devices delivered to us. And with the launch of the 3GS JOBS and his people convinced my wife and I to bring him into our lives, hell, even into ourbedroom every night.

My wife, who by the way is the president of a publishing company, owner of an Indie label, and majority stock holder in a Eco-Friendly transportation company in Miami. She uses her 3GS to read emails from each of her businesses. Write comments on Twitter under @roadtoashes her account where she shares details of her life and struggles as a woman writting an autobiography about her life growing up. She has 9,700+ people following her every word. She does her , multi-media webcast through UCast and she holds her conference calls via her

I on the other hand have married my to a Mophie (battery extenders) that gives me 100% battery life till 5 pm. Then I use the standard battery till 2 am everyday unless I have been tweeting like a demon or using my location based apps to check in as I go about my business day. I use mapmyride, loopt, tweetdeck, even GOOGLES' own "buzz" throughout the day.I update via facebook and linken and always use my calendar to remind me of my next meeting. Next month I replace my Mophie battery extenders with a new Mophie product that allows me to swipe credit cards on site and have an extra battery on hand to carry the burden of my daily workload.

So even though my wife and I talked about it for years before it ever happened! We willingly invited Steve Jobs in our lives and even into our beds every night as we charge up our for the next days busy schedule. The one thing we did wish was that Mophie would build a battery extender that used the standard plug to charge the battery now that would make going to bed in the dark with JOBS a lil less stressful.


Q Fortune is President & CEO of Grow Verde an Eco-Friendly Vespa-Sharing members only service being tested in Miami. The service is in stage 2 testing & under the application process for supplying the world with Carbon credits via it's members. Q is also part owner of an Indie Label that specializes in mobile applications & digital distribution. He is Executive Producing an audio series of an autobiography and is spearheading an Audio+ series due out late 2010.

You can reach him at Growverde@gmail.com for interview request.


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Wire frames are in!!!

I now have in hand the first round of wire frames. And according to our agreed upon schedule, Micstura, is right on schedule. The goal of our website and registration process was to make it as simple as possible. This week we are focusing on the questions needed to support our VER application to the CDM. By collecting the data during the application process we can provide that data as backup to our claims of carbon reductions. Wire frames are by no means the "look of our website" its more the framework, hence the word "frame."

IPhone app:

Our developers are mapping out the IA for the new IPhone app we will launch on the heals of our new website launch. Together with our "paperless" application system for our sales partners and our introduction of LO.R.A. our resrvation system. We believe that Grow Verde apps will become industry standards.

LO.R.A.:

I would love to talk more about LO.R.A. to you but I am told I have to save it for a later date. But what little I can say is this...LO.R.A. loves to play with GPS functions and she can locate our entire fleet at the touch of a button! Check back for more info on LO.R.A.

Paperless application system:

Paper work! Paper work! Paper work! This one aspect of business eats into profit as much as labor does. It was a part of our mission from the start to have a paperless application system for all members. Our sales partners are good at one thing, and that one thing is, finding good customers based on a set of criteria we provide. But the one main issue during the sales process has always been "paper work", when done correctly the process is seamless but time consuming. When done incorrectly, it becomes a nightmare for all involved and most of all for the potential customer who usually goes without service, or without the services they signed up for.

At Grow Verde, we had our developers focus on creating an application that our sales partners could use that would allow the "Feet on the Street" sales reps to enter customer info directly into our data base. This would allow the rep to review any mistakes with the customer in "real time" and make changes as needed. This would also eliminate the need for "Data" entry clerks, a major drain on profits. By having the reps enter all the info for each user into the system complete with business billing info and personal billing info. We eliminate the additional opportunity for "human error", not to say it can't happen during the sign up process! But we have taken steps to reduce these "error" issues during the process.

With this small steps forward we have provided the sales rep with a digital sales tool that allows them to carry less over all weight in the field, concentrate more on "customer needs" and combined several sales tools into one device. Paperless applications also streamline the billing process on the back end and helps to identify payment issues in real time, versus the post auditing method favored by most industries. Keep your browsers pointed in our direction for more updates and notes on how this process is coming along.

If your concept is great, it does not matter as much as your experience!

I was in a meeting today with a city official who is in love with the concept of Vespa sharing. As I walked him through our presentation my VP's of Operations noticed that I was loosing him. So he interjected and said "You are preaching to the Choir! We see the value of a service like this and we understand the concept. I am more interested in you, your back ground and experience."

I was happy to hear he was on board but understood his desire to get to know who I was as a person and as a leader. So I walked him through a brief history of my "Local boy makes good and goes off to college", shared with him some of my college stories and we bonded because we shared a common thread, the college experience. The grandeur of a high level collegiate program and all the hype that surrounds it. We both have had a chance to travel and in the end he cut to the chase and offered an olive branch.

Normally big cities are not that easy to crack open and most of the time things that are good for the city take a long time to get to the public. With some luck and good old fashioned elbow grease. This program will have a great jump start and be the model for cities around the country.