Jeffrey Greenberg on Technology Strategy

We’re working with a rag-tag fleet of development folks: programmers, admins, designers and so forth. Amongst the challenges is that as we bootstrap our development it is a huge challenge for the folks we’re working with to be as committed as we are. For many of them this work is part-time and they squeeze into their busy lives. On top of that, they are distributed all over the place so that keeping everyone in sync and focused is a challenge. And the remoteness itself, without having worked together, makes it very hard for us to develop a solid team feeling.

We stress respectful communications. And we really can’t over communicate in this situation, have too many meetings. Not yet anyway.

Some of the relationships work really well at a very high level of professional commitment, and others are not so engaged and we move on. We’re looking for folks who passionately involve themselves.