Month: December 2012

Online Transactions – It can be a painful experience

Online Transactions – It can be a painful experience

Posted by | December 25, 2012 | | 0 |

I saw this Google video  that portrays the online shopping experience as if it would occur in real life.   Its really a great visualization of all the extra steps and frustrations that are more than common place in eCommerce on most websites today.    As technologists we should strive to make things more simple as we automate real life processes.   However, we often tend to try and make things better by adding steps and validations.   By making things more secure we also make them more unusable, as displayed by the captcha example in the video.  One of my...

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Cultural fit a requirement

Cultural fit a requirement

Posted by | December 8, 2012 | , | 0 |

I found that Brad Feld makes an excellent point in his post on Cultural fit – http://blogs.wsj.com/accelerators/2012/12/12/why-cultural-fit-trumps-competence/   Starting out we hired a lot of smart people that were great at what they did, they clearly had a high competence.   But we ran into issues on several projects, because they did not want to travel or work after a certain time.  They were awesome at what they did but other people had to pick up the slack for what they did not want to do.   Coming from a large enterprise firm they were not able to adjust to the different...

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