Here’s a list of all the Web2.0 solutions we could find. However to see even more visit http://www.go2web20.net/
I was put onto this great new website called infonews.co.nz the other day. InfoNews is a citizen journalism website for local news in New Zealand that allows any member of the community to publish news, photos and event details while also providing a forum for opinions, messages and interaction.
The website was started by Fraser Mills and Peter Hodge, both graduates from the Peter Arnett School of Journalism at the Southern Institute of Technology in 2006.
I’ve talked with Peter indepth about their approach to user generated media and have to say I’m impressed. The website is clean, a well executed concept and is showing great promise. Get behind these guys!
Our core product ProWorkflow (www.proworkflow.com) hit a milestone recently with over 1,000,000 hrs tracked through the solution. This was time tracked on 100,000 projects, for about 300,000 tasks. Based on average studio hourly rates, this equates to $100,000,000 as an approximation of the value of work managed using the ProWorkflow solution.
This made me consider the difference between a fully funded startup (with millions at their disposal) and a sweat equity based startup (no funding/investment) both competing to get a mature product to the market.
I came to the conclusion that whilst having huge financial resource up front is definitely helpful, it’s not absolutely necessary when it comes to product development. The ProWorkflow tool was developed over 4 years by a sweat equity based team dedicated to solution perfection (not product perfection). I say ’solution’, as it needs to solve real world problems, otherwise it’s nothing more than eye candy.
The ProActive team have spent countless evenings, mornings, weekends and probably 4-500 releases tweaking the solution, listening to customers, tweaking some more, listening…
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About the author:
Julian Stone, CEO – Project, Task & Time Management specialist for: ProActiveSoftware.com, ProWorkflow.com & Julian101.com
As per the previous post, here’s a quick profitability calculator:
http://cgi.money.cnn.com/tools/companyprofit/index.html
