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Palante participates in May Day 2012

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Palante Tech will be running at limited capacity on May 1st to allow us to participate alongside our client organizations, allies, and the thousands of others across the United States and around the world organizing for the Occupy general strike and International Workers' Day. We're happy that as a worker-owned cooperative, we were able to bring our shared values and beliefs to this consensus-based decision.

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Raw Notes: From a contractor to a shop: How to make the leap

Starting Out

  • going from contractor to shop = making a lot of mistakes and surviving them

defining the type of shop you are - what are you selling, what is your market?

  • identify your team's strengths and go with them, but also be adaptable in case your market shrinks
  • CivicActions - thought they'd be leading shop for political campaigns and candidates and nonprofits - they're a mission-driven, values-based company and choose clients accordingly.
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Raw Notes: Lullabot Case Study

Presentation by Liza Kindred

Background on Liza and Lullabot

  • Liza's background is fashion - "a lot of stuff that most people here don't care about" - and art, nonprofit boards of art orgs, now a Lullabot (employee #3)
  • Liza is obsessed with open business models
  • Lullabot - podcasts, high-level consulting, site architecture, development, training, books
  • Lullabot is not only professional and successful but cheeky, funny, nontraditional, fun

Open Sour

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