A web project by Lorenzo Geraci
Life: what does a life worth living looks like? What does it sound like? What does it smell like? What does it taste like?
Is your business the love of your life? Is what you do for a living an extension of who you are? Your creative side at the service of other?
The two opposites of anything are the balance of everything, just like the sound of the clapping with one hand.
As Peter Drucker once wrote, “The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it and exploits it as an opportunity.” Put more simply, change is good . . . of course, that’s unless you’re trying to raise capital in these trying times.
After my company BrightRoll recently closed its Series B round of financing, we took a step back to digest the lessons we learned from pitching and negotiating with a handful of VCs over our 6-week fundraising effort.
To say raising money in the current economic environment has been different …
WordPress.com‘ 10.5 million blogs are about to get a whole lot more real-time, thanks to a new behind-the-scenes development.
The WordPress team has announced in a blog post that the company has turned on support for PubSubHubbub (try saying that fast five times), a move that will get blog content to RSS services (such as Google Reader and Bloglines) much more quickly.
Read more at: Mashable
Almost every city in the country has a 311 Customer Service Center providing residents answers about city services, and a way to report potholes, graffiti or other issues. Since the launch of San Francisco’s 311 Center in March 2007, more than 8 million calls have been answered and thousands of requests have been submitted online.
Last year, I announced a first-of-its kind partnership with Twitter to make it even easier for San Franciscans to communicate with government and report problems. Thousands of residents have taken advantage of this service tweeting …
What was once just a Seattle event — first started by Brady Forrest of O’Reilly Media and Bre Pettis formerly of Etsy.com in 2006 — Ignite has grown to become an ongoing series of International geek gatherings where the brightest minds get five minutes of stage time to make their point.
Today marks the start of Ignite’s most ambitious endeavor to date: Global Ignite Week. This week-long Ignite extravaganza has been eight months in the making and is a first of its kind.
You can find an Ignite event to attend …
What a great and simple concept.
With the overall goal of Doing the Right Thing, DoTheRightThing.com serves as a clearing house of some sort between people with ideas on helping companies improving the world by Doing the Right Thing.
Give it a try.
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