Written by Charles on October 18, 2009 – 8:40 pm
The Austin Business Journal interviews Indigo Heron in a feature story about the Barn Builders program we have developed in partnership with Tech Ranch. Barn Builders matches unemployed professionals with start-ups and other small businesses in need of their talents. Barn Builders focuses primarily on building social capital to rebuild the economy. The hardcopy version [...]
Written by Alora on October 14, 2009 – 4:33 pm
Some questions are just a trick. The interview process is full of these: there really is no right or wrong answer. The point is just to read something into which option you pick. My favorite of these is the famous one: “Which is more important to you: being liked or being respected?” As a boss, [...]
Written by Alora on October 13, 2009 – 7:37 am
At SXSW in March, I spoke to leaders of several small Web 2.0 companies that specialize in the small business B2B market. I interviewed them for an article I wrote in Social Computing Journal (for which I was Managing Editor at the time) about a new initiative they were launching, called The Small Business Web. [...]
Written by Alora on October 5, 2009 – 8:13 pm
I first got online back in 1993, before the web. I got in the technology business in 1996, as it was just starting to become something noteworthy. I really launched my career in 2000, in an ecommerce solution provider. Over the years, the web has undergone amazing change — which is why it is still [...]
