Entries categorized 'Business'

A really interesting article, The Flimsy Doorknob & A Forgettable Receipt, by Dustin Curtis.

I think his points are spot on. Stop and think about some of your recent experiences (especially bad ones). I think you will be amazed that in hindsight it is the little things that stick with you.

A very good talk by David Heinemeier Hansson, “Doing a Start Up in the Real World”. My favorite part,

“…a mediocre idea with fantastic execution and staying power is going to be an awesome success”.

Continue reading "Execution and Perseverance"

I found this line very interesting in Entrepreneurs Can Lead Us Out of the Crisis:

Only entrepreneurs have the flexibility, the freedom and the risk-everything ambition to find the path back to prosperity in a rapidly changing, technology-driven global economy.

Continue reading "Entrepreneurs to End the Crisis?"

We finally got an updated version of the Graffiti roadmap up on the site. There are some very noticeable updates and reprioritization. We (Telligent) have some lofty goals with Graffiti, but we came to the conclusion that we need to focus some more time on the basics before we start muddying the waters with features such as forums.

Continue reading "GraffitiCMS RoadMap"

I expect we will be hearing many announcements like this from Google and many others in the coming weeks and months.

Continue reading "Saying Goodbye to the Non-Essential"

With all the news about a crappy economy, I found the video below by Jason Fried of 37Signals very interesting.

Continue reading "Follow the Chefs"

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Microsoft's new BizSpark project is an effort to spur startups and entrepreneurs to use Microsoft technology when launching new companies. Microsoft is giving away software, services and support to startups earning less than $1 million to help them get off the ground and to the next level. The technology Microsoft is making available includes Visual Studio, Windows Server, SQL Server and Windows Azure. [eWeek]

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We are still three days away from officially starting in.Telligent, but things are starting to come together nicely.

Continue reading "in.Telligent Day -2"

With all that is going on in the stock market and economy for the last couple weeks, this headline cracked me up.

Continue reading "Facebook’s (lack of a) Business Plan"

We (Telligent) have used Lucene.Net quite a bit over the last couple of years. We are getting ready to start on a pretty ambitious update using Lucene.Net and we are hoping to add someone to the team who has expertise in this area.

Continue reading "Lucene Opportunity"