Monday, December 13, 2010
Remain Calm
Nice blog post from my friend Beth Rosen on remaining calm when your technology fails you here
Friday, December 3, 2010
Top 5 Technology Dos and Don'ts when starting a business
I'm speaking to a group of students at Columbia Business School today about the basic IT needs when starting a business. Here's the summary
Top 5 Dos
Top 5 Dos
- Back Up and then plan your Disaster Recovery
- Set it up so you can work from anywhere
- Learn to fully use your tools
- Monthly options are often better than outright purchased (for tech reasons, not just because of cash flow)
- Proactively manage your technology. It’s not set it and forget it
- Underestimate the importance of security
- Spend money just because it’s cool (unless cool is important to our business)
- Assume just because it’s in the CLOUD it’s cheaper, safer and better
- Skimp. Invest where you need to
- Make all the IT decisions yourself. Use a professional. Your IT advisor is as important as your accountant and your attorney
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