In the world of sustainable enterprise, the tension between focusing on ‘mission’ (ie: do-gooding) and ‘business’ (ie: paying the bills) is extraordinary.  Whether the enterprise is for-profit or non-profit, these challenges bring leaders to the brink of their capacity, and pit employees and board members against one another across unnecessarily stark lines.
Further complicating the picture [...]

As we laid out last month, entrepreneurial activity in Colorado is in the middle of a renaissance. While the national corporate recession hits the headlines and gas and food prices reach for the sky, our local startup scene is rocking.
David Cohen, one of Boulder’s celebrity VCs, announces two new fundings today at his blog, [...]

Today, I went to check an old online workspace at Omidyar.net for Targeted Currencies, a project I co-founded back in 2004. And I found out that the Omidyar network had closed down.
The Omidyar Network (O/Net) was an early phase community collaboration site for progressive global activists, founded when Pierre Omidyar (founder of eBay and [...]

Interesting to see Microsoft’s open channel to the development community, Channel9. This isn’t your Ballmer’s MSDN (reference too obscure?). I like their manifesto.

Nice to see people drinking the web 2.0 collaboration kool-aid in a good way.
The editors of Complexity and Social Networkers, a blog from the Institute for Quantiative Social Science and the Program on Netwoked Governance at Harvard, had begun a comprehensive search for social network analysis tools and libraries. Not having found a single [...]

In 2005, Howard Rheingold gave a talk at the inimitable TED. Over the first 20 minutes, he reviewed the cycle of the evolution of the interrelation of biology and humanity — no mean feat, but largely review if you’ve been paying attention. Along the way, the interwoven thread of markets, communication and human [...]