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Entries Tagged as 'Business Zeitgeist / Web 2.0'

Competing with Craigslist

November 19th, 2008 · 1 Comment

A number of startups have contacted me with plays to compete with Craigslist. Craigslist is dominant in providing localized exchange of goods and services. They are free, they have a huge brand and audience, and (from the outside) they appear to be a relatively efficient organization. The competing startups […]

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Tags: Business Zeitgeist / Web 2.0 · General

Perspectives in Technical Due Diligence Consulting

May 26th, 2008 · No Comments

The key to performing a technical due diligence is an understanding of the business goals that are driving the audit. To perform the audit well requires discipline to listen and the knowledge to ask the right questions that will uncover what is going on. A simple methodology is helpful as a guide to […]

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Tags: Business Zeitgeist / Web 2.0 · Project Management · Startups

Commitment in Early Stage Startups

April 15th, 2008 · No Comments

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 […]

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Tags: Business Zeitgeist / Web 2.0 · Project Management · Startups

Big and Small Scale Development

January 15th, 2008 · No Comments

Enjoying the ends of small and large scale development is a matter of appreciating issues of all scale.

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Tags: Business Zeitgeist / Web 2.0 · Project Management

Taproot Foundation: A great experiment in white collar volunteering

August 14th, 2007 · No Comments

I’ve started to work with the Taproot Foundation as a way to help non-profits build some technology they need. Taproot tries to the smooth the process by automating project management and bringing in best practices for working with clients. So far i’m impressed. As I go along I’ll report on this. […]

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Tags: Business Zeitgeist / Web 2.0 · Technology Public Policy

If Twitter is a Feature, What is an Application?

June 26th, 2007 · No Comments

What is the difference between Connectivity and Intimacy?

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Tags: Business Zeitgeist / Web 2.0 · Product Design