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Networking’s always better with a (tech) cocktail

As mentioned in the previous post, the focus of this working session in Chicago has been on networking and setting up a marketing plan. One of the biggest highlights of the trip so far has been attending Tech Cocktail 2, a quarterly networking event for techies and entrepreneurs in the Midwest. We’d been [...]

We’re virtually working…err working virtually

So as anyone who’s tried working in distributed teams knows, working virtually can quickly turn into virtually working – all the motions but not all the output. It can be particularly difficult for collaborative and time-sensitive projects such as ours. (You can read all about it in a book co-written by Rob Oyung, [...]

Paying homage to Vonage

So I read in the news today that Vonage is filing for an IPO to raise $250 million. I think this is really cool since I just started using their services and I’m quite pleased that they’ll have some money to keep operating (their subscriber aquisition costs have caused them to remain unprofitable). [...]