Tumblr (3.0; @marginleft)http://blog.marginleft.com/<p>Wait, I blinked and 7 months went by? Huh. Well, now that I&#8217;m awake from my coding coma (gonna trademark that btw), I feel like some kinda blog post is warranted. Things have changed a lot. Stay tuned web nerds, we are about to take this to the streets (which for the uninformed is much more intense than the next level).</p>http://blog.marginleft.com/post/1090552893http://blog.marginleft.com/post/1090552893Thu, 09 Sep 2010 02:58:21 -0400<p>marginLeft started three years ago as an experiment: can two college kids from Bangor, Maine with no formal business training build a company and escape the drudgery of normal life? Four years later, its looking like the experiment might very well be a success. We&#8217;ve supported ourselves as entrepreneurs by working with some awesome companies, and we&#8217;ve been fortunate to be able to have some pretty cool projects fall into our laps. We rebuilt the IT website for the University of maine, creating dynamic databases and interfaces to manage department resources, and developing a streamlined information database for students and faculty. Following the success of that website we worked with IONA Technologies and Chariot Web Solutions to rethink and redesign the IONA open source community built around their Fuse product line. This gave us the room to flex out muscles on a large stage, and with the later acquisition of IONA by Progress software, we deemed this project a success. Looking for something different, we co-founded the startup AccelGolf as technical and biz dev partners. As part of the AccelGolf team we won numerous business plan competitions, raised a financing round, and lead development of mobile and web applications that grew from zero to over 40,000 users in just 4 months. During this time we raised over half a million dollars in research and development grants to further technology development in Maine.</p> <p> Moving forward marginLeft has some big plans. Sky is working with Accelgolf, who is close to launching their 2.0 overhaul on their mobile and web applications. The mid march launch is set to coincide with the spring bloom of the golf market. James is working on a few other projects that we are both really excited about, and we think a lot of small businesses and startups will be too. Stay tuned to this blog, the past three years are nothing compared to what is soon to come.</p>http://blog.marginleft.com/post/365322333http://blog.marginleft.com/post/365322333Mon, 01 Feb 2010 12:08:02 -0500