The title of this post is based on my fortune from a cookie at P.F. Chang’s this past weekend. I really hope the fortune is referring to OPIEWeb and not just my unending quest to find pants that fit correctly.

Success is never assured, especially in entrepreneurial adventures such as this. Neil Davidson (founder of Red Gate Software, organizer of the Business of Software Conference, and blogger) recently posted this nugget about a little company known as Hewlett Packard:

If Hewlett and Packard, two Stanford graduates with the rosiest of futures ahead of them, can flounder so badly when faced with the problem of how to price their products, what hope do the rest of us have?

This is why we bring you OPIEWeb free of charge. Who can argue with free?

OPIEWeb does need to earn income however and to that aim, we plan to unveil a Job Board where companies and schools can advertise openings at competitive rates. We also plan on adding some small ads to the site. Users with 200 reputation or more will be spared those ads however, unless they aren’t logged in. All the more reason to build your rep now.

If you or your company would like to reserve an ad spot or a place on the job board now, or just get an early draft of our rate guide, send an email to OPIEWeb@Gmail.com.

Incidentally, today is OPIEWeb’s 2-week anniversary. Our stats indicate there is a healthy interest in our site, but we need your questions so people can provide answers. Don’t be shy. Do you really know all there is to know about K-means clustering? Do you know your alphas from your p-values? How about training? How does one train for attitudes?

Find out in the main site and thanks for reading.

Rob