Yee-hah! Charter Street Launches!

For the Charter Street blog ("a blog about entrepreneurship, the internet, and the state of the software industry") from Versai Technology Paul McNamara and Greg Olsen, with whom I've been fortunate enough to work closely over the last few months. Paul and Greg are jumping into the business blogosphere with both feet, and will be chronicling their new company through its birth, growth and eventual world domination*. I'm not yet able to publicly say what Versai is going to be doing, but I can tell you it's very, very cool and very much in line with our belief of where the technology industry is going. Their first two posts are up as of last weekend, with Paul bringing us up to speed on insight from the good Dr. Olsen: Given peoples' experience with telecommuting and distributed team projects from the open source community, a neo-Bedouin approach is not as hard to envision as it once may have been. The requirements for a neo-Bedouin business, however, go further and must include support for all business functions (such as sales, marketing, finance, engineering and customer support). A neo-Bedouin approach can be executed through a wide variety of specific choices. Here is a sample recipe: Christopher Carfi, CEO and co-founder of Cerado, looks at sales, marketing, and the business experience from the customers point of view. He currently is focused on understanding how emerging social technologies such as blogs, wikis, and social networking are enabling the creation of new types of customer-driven communities. He is the author of the