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Monthly Archives: September 2010

Recap, Presses and Pulls

So far, I’ve written about two different ways to convince individuals to contribute to a group where it is in their best interest to do so, but when being the first adopter might be a prohibitively risky proposition. To recap:

Borrow or otherwise accumulate and appropriate sum of resources to create an infrastructure, then sell access [...]

Web Servers and Lunges

Earlier this week I wrote about the fax machine and how it took more than 100 years from invention to the ubiquitous office appliance we know today. While it might seem, without really understanding the history, that the first guy to buy a fax machine was particularly risky - in fact it was not a [...]