October 23, 2006 – 8:18 am
Why do many venture capitalists and technology executives feel that teams need to be geographically concentrated? As Cote’ pointed out, open source movements function quite well with internationally dispersed workforces, with team members who rarely if ever meet face to face. But open source efforts hew to an entirely different model of operations than typical [...]
October 21, 2006 – 3:08 pm
Part of the promise of Work 2.0 is living anywhere you want yet still working with whom you want to work on the projects you want to work on at the times that you can work. We wish keenly for that aspect of Work 2.0 in Colorado, a place you choose for lifestyle not because [...]
October 16, 2006 – 4:38 pm
The Office 2.0 conference attracted a monotonous crowd of entrepreneurs, big software vendors, VCs, and IT analysts focused on introducing web-enabled office apps into The Enterprise (a.k.a. organizations with fat wallets). Considering the consumer space is so peculiarly nonprofitable for anyone but Google, who can blame these technophiles for looking to Enteprise 2.0 in its [...]
September 25, 2006 – 5:45 pm
I cannot focus. I have too many pressing things to do: plant Apricot Beauty tulip bulbs and grape hyacinths around my new skyline honey locust tree, pretty up the chat capability for the podcast jam website, review a load of database design docs for a client, hire an afterschool nanny so I don’t turn into [...]
September 7, 2006 – 10:33 am
In my first job as a software engineer, I was the only woman in a group of about fifteen. I told my husband Rick that I figured all the important business was getting done in the men’s room. At the company Christmas party, Rick snuck me in. I was relieved to see there weren’t any [...]
September 3, 2006 – 12:01 pm
Marshall Kirkpatrick interviewed Paul Graham of Y Combinator who notes a move toward smaller scale startups:
There’s definitely a trend toward smaller investments, because it costs so much less to start a startup now. And if you take less money initially, you keep more options open. Once you’ve taken a VC-scale investment of two or three [...]
September 2, 2006 – 9:41 am
It’s painful to read the conversation about the lack of women speakers at the Office 2.0 conference. Painful because the visibility of women doesn’t seem to be increasing. Painful because there aren’t any easy solutions. Painful because some people believe that women are just inferior. Painful because the thought of public speaking makes me want [...]
August 15, 2006 – 11:55 am
I spent last week in Estes Park, Colorado with my husband, three kids, and a rotating complement of family and friends. We rented a vacation home near the YMCA of the Rockies and experienced the beauty of Rocky Mountain National Park. On Sunday, we took a leisurely half-mile walk around Bear Lake with the whole [...]
This May 2004 article from Harvard Business Review argues that teams that are geographically distributed can be more productive than traditional teams:
Remarkably, an extensive benchmarking study reveals, it isn’t necessary to bring team members together to get their best work. In fact, they can be even more productive if they stay separated and do all [...]
Next week, I introduce Anne 2.0 Pro edition, when I begin a consulting gig. This will be the first money I’ve earned as a technologist since I received a $1000 patent bonus shortly after leaving Oracle in September of 2000. The money itself is less important than the standing it gives me in my household, [...]
