Chris Maresca

As part of some brainstorming I was doing with a friend raising a new fund, the concept of future trend themes came up. It’s not new, Brad Feld has a whole blog post about this.  However, it got me thinking about the way I look at the future and what themes I see. So, without [...]

In the past year, I’ve worked with a lot of startups and the one recurring thing I notice is the amount of time people spend worrying about basic infrastructure. So, here’s my roundup of the stuff I’ve used, recommended and would use again for my next project: Mail, calendaring, document sharing Hands down, Google Apps [...]

and here are the resources I’ve been looking at: http://www.web3mantra.com/2011/03/04/50-free-wordpress-themes/ http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/08/19/100-free-high-quality-wordpress-themes-for-2010/ http://victorsosea.com/75-best-free-wordpress-themes-ever/ http://smashinghub.com/15-free-clean-minimalist-wordpress-themes.htm http://www.wpmods.com/50-free-minimalist-wordpress-themes http://www.bloggingtechnews.com/wordpress/themes/free-minimalist-wordpress-themes/ (yes, I was looking for a minimalist theme) The upshot of this is that my website will be variable and possibly broken in the next few hours… [update] stopped my trials with the Titan theme (link in footer) – going [...]

Finally bothered to fix the Twitter integration on my blog.   When Twitter changed auth, a lot of things broke and I had to upgrade all of WordPress just to fix it….  Well, I finally found some time to do it, thus all the new ‘Continuing Education’ posts….

Olliance – http://www.olliancegroup.com BlackDuck – http://www.blackducksoftware.com Chikpea – http://www.chikpea.com Equalis – http://www.equalis.com Earthster – http://www.earthster.org And finally, my own company: Concept32 – http://www.concept32.com

I sent this out last week but thought I should post it here as well…

I was in Los Angeles last week attending the Digital Hollywood conference. The crowd was mostly executives from the entertainment business and it was held at a luxury hotel in Santa Monica. Aside from the fact that every other session was either about mobile (re. content on iPhones) or about how to monetize content on [...]

A couple of months ago, I sat down to help a company that was struggling to grow beyond subsistence for a few people. Before actually sitting down with them, I spent time talking to the CEO about the state of his business. It was clear that there was a lack of process and discipline, and [...]

I was just looking at a discussion about LinkedIn where someone called it useless.   I’ve been a LinkedIn user for years, basically since it was launched, so I’m more than a little biased about it’s utility.   However, I also recognize that quite a few people think it should be a magic bullet to a variety [...]

It’s always good to see a past client become successful.   In this case, it’s WaveMaker, a company for which I did business model, licensing and community strategy several years ago.   Looks like that work has finally paid off, thanks to good execution on the part of Chris Keene and the rest of the [...]