%0 Journal Article %J Open Source Business Resource %D 2011 %T Learning from Failure: A Case Study in Entrepreneurship %A Daniel Crenna %X Business ventures often fail even when market demand is demonstrated and evaluated by peers, and when the project team is capable of producing the work. In this informal case study based on the author's own experiences, the topics of market size and fit, team size, human dynamics, business validation, and interaction design are explored to form a picture of how a business with seemingly promising prospects could still fail. Specifically, the challenges faced by small or single-person implementation teams are discussed, with suggestions for overcoming these challenges to produce more realistic and viable businesses. %B Open Source Business Resource %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %8 06/2011 %G eng %U http://timreview.ca/article/447 %N June 2011 %9 Articles %1 Postmark Daniel Crenna is a software developer from Ottawa, Canada. Daniel has delivered software for the web's biggest brands and has created open source software for millions of users. He is currently the lead developer for Postmark, a hosted email service provider, and writes on technical entrepreneurship at danielcrenna.com. He is currently at the design stage of his next tech venture. %0 Journal Article %J Open Source Business Resource %D 2010 %T Re-evaluating Open Source for Sustaining Competitive Advantage for Hosted Applications %A Daniel Crenna %X The use of open source in hosted solutions is undoubtedly widespread. However, it is seldom considered important in its own right, nor do the majority of hosted solutions providers contribute to or create open source as natural artifacts of doing good business. In this exploration of the nature of hosted solutions and their developers, it is suggested that not only consuming open source, but creating and disseminating it to collaborators and competitors alike, is essential to success. By establishing an open source ecosystem where hosted solutions compete on differentiation rather than lose time and money to concerns that are expected by users, do not add value, and benefit from public scrutiny, hosted solution providers can reduce the cost of their solution, the time it takes to deliver new ones, and improve their quality without additional resources. %B Open Source Business Resource %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %8 04/2010 %G eng %U http://timreview.ca/article/341 %N April 2010 %9 Articles %1 Lunarbits Daniel Crenna is an award winning developer, author, and active entrepreneur from Ottawa, Canada. He is the lead developer of several open source projects including TweetSharp, the most popular Twitter development library for .NET developers, and DotNetMerchant, a hosted eCommerce platform built on Microsoft's ASP.NET technology. He is currently developing Lunarbits, a hosted eCommerce solution for small to medium publishers selling digital goods. He recently became a graduate of the Lead to Win program.