The overview?
Define your own success
Pick the right people
Diversity is essential
Community first
Don’t reinvent the wheel
Communicate, communicate, communicate
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Citizen Agency gives tips 4 startups on CN
June 11, 2007 – 6:30 pm
New Horizons for Ben
January 11, 2007 – 9:31 pm
Ben Metcalfe, who joined us last September as our third partner, has decided to seek out new horizons for 2007.
In his post, he writes:
It’s been a difficult decision to take, especially as I love Chris and Tara and have enjoyed working with them so much. Their genuine passion for putting the community first has been [...]
Looking over the CA horizon into 2007
January 4, 2007 – 2:36 am
2006 was a pretty awesome year…launching CA in June, filling up our client roster in July, expanding to a team of 3 in October, getting our first office in November, with all sorts of little amazing things weaved in between all of that: travel, presentations, events, revelations, etc.
Of course, there are also the hard parts [...]
Citizen Space is finally here!
November 3, 2006 – 8:09 am
Well, as of yesterday, really, we were (mostly) moved into Citizen Space: our new offices + the newest family member of the SF coworking spaces (The Hat Factory as well). There is still a wee bit of work being done on the boardroom tomorrow, but we have already had all sorts of awesome people stop [...]
We furnished our entire office for less than the cost of 3 Aeron Chairs
October 25, 2006 – 6:26 am
$2672
That’s less than the cost of 3 Aeron Chairs ($2697). What did we get for $2672? This is what makes it really awesome:
10 desks with ample workspace
20 boardroom chairs (stackable)
4 movable boardroom tables (small, can come together or pull apart)
One Coat rack
4 File boxes
3 perfectly awesome adjustable ergonomic chairs
2 bookshelves
5 waste baskets
One beautiful black leather [...]
A work of … progress
October 9, 2006 – 7:20 pm
Folks subscribed to our blog who haven’t checked out the solid state version at citizenagency.com/blog are in for a surprise.
You see, we’ve been trying to get our website done — designed from the ground up — covering our services and generally providing a more meaty answer to “who are you and what do you do?” [...]
Fear: a hat tip to 37 Signals
October 9, 2006 – 9:00 am
Another brilliant post at Signal vs. Noise…this one on fear and scaling…
The flip-side is that you need to recognize genuine threats — even if they’re “boring� issues. Things like these are a lot more likely to actually cripple your chances of success:Taking forever to launch
Running out of money
Not solving a real problem
Designing a confusing UI
Obsessing [...]
Everyone needs a chandelier for their conference room
October 7, 2006 – 4:59 am
To go along with Citizen Agency’s emerging French classic (colonial?) brand, we purchased this chandelier to become the centerpiece for our soon-to-be-complete ‘Conversation Room’ in the Citizen Agency/Coworking South Park offices.
Our new landlord is totally rockin’. The building is being slowly renovated, so we get to personalize our office. With the help of our good [...]
The Trap of Being Nice
July 28, 2006 – 1:13 am
Chris and I both have an issue: We are nice.
We don’t want to disappoint anyone.
My biggest issue: I can’t say no. I mentioned before that we are all filled up client-wise. We are, at this time, working flat-out for the clients we have. Anything else could compromise that or our own sanity. However, I’m having [...]
Cebelrating
July 21, 2006 – 3:32 pm
So…here we are at the end of, what? Like just over a month in bidness and we’ve maxxed out on clients. We’ve signed all of our ‘willing to do client work time’ (as opposed to volunteer, community, development and business stuff work) and signed all of the contracts related to that.
We have deposits in the [...]