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Using old school voicemail to sell our technology is a lost art. How many of us dread the voice mail prompt?! While closing a deal may be a stretch for beginners, plodding forward with good outbound messages can, and will, close deals.

Before I graduated on the Dean’s List from engineering school, I sold […]

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Google acquired JotSpot eons ago, so long ago that one almost forgets about the wiki company and its founder, Joe Krause. Apparently Google didn’t let it go to waste. It is now the underpinning of Google Sites, a web-based collaboration software service that is going to be part of the Google Apps and will […]

Web Worker Daily — Apps for your cell phone that will save you both time — money. Earth2Tech — Looking to commercialize your thesis? Stanford wants to hear from you. Found/Read — Perfectionism is both annoying and from a startup perspective, dangerous. NewTeeVee — Uh-oh — “quarterlife’s” premiere on NBC last night bombed.

Recently I had a conversation with a Found|READ contributor about common pitfalls founders face. (Hint: I found this image of the Perfection Monster on the web.) Sure, perfectionists are annoying, but he addressed the dangers of such aspirations in a way that is especially relevant to startups, and I think it bears repeating:
“One of […]

Rhode Island’s efforts to drive innovation and subsequent technology jobs to the state aren’t unusual, but building a technology hub is hard. I’ve watched Austin, Texas, where I live and work, fight to get to the point where it can claim to be a technology center and then continue fighting to stay there.

To get there, […]