Two Businesses

It has become clear to my partner and I that there are two businesses opportunities we are evolving today. One is a business focused on providing solutions to specific vertical markets to solve the product/price/performance equation. The other business is more horizontal in nature, addressing many of the needs of the open source community that is creating the software we are employing. We have developed a great deal of domain expertise as we work with the OSS, and understand many of its shortcomings. More needs to address...what a beautiful thing.

Addressing these two very distinct sets of needs requires focus. We cannot think that we can solve all of these with one team, as the needs are very different. So we have decided to divide and focus. We are forming two very distinct teams around each set of problems. Flatburger is focused on serving the needs of the open source software community, while ibelongnetworks.com is focused on serving the needs of certain vertical markets. iBelongNetworks will initially focus on the content, community, and collaboration needs of the non government organization ("NGO") space.