Archive for April, 2007

I’m seeing several articles declaring “homeshoring” to be the new trend in business process outsourcing (BPO). According to Kristen Kizer, a director of customer care at DigitalBridge Communications, homeshoring attracts “more qualified agents, such as stay-at-home moms, idle retirees and college students.” The StartupNation article is here. Labor trends researcher IDC has seen steady 20% [...]

Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom
[Andrew Keen's forthcoming book, The Cult of the Amateur.] Reading this CNET commentator’s review of Andrew Keen’s upcoming book The Cult of the Amateur takes me back to a conversation with Ann Arbor venture capitalist Ron Reed in a Main Street restaurant in the dot-boom days, about the value of received [...]