Brian Alvey (The Big Web Show 39)
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Episode Description
Jeffrey Zeldman and Dan Benjamin are joined by Brian Alvey to discuss the early days of the web, balancing products and services, taking big meetings, what’s coming next for Content Management Systems, being a small publisher, and moving toward bigger platforms.
Episode Information
Initially Released February 17, 2011
Runtime 36:25
Episode Page Brian Alvey
Recurring Topics and Characters
Discussion
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Brian Alvin and Jeffrey discuss the worst things a client can do when a CMS is no adaptable to changes in the clients' requirements. And brian xplains the recipe they offer to their clients and how CrowdFusion (where Brian is CEO) is flexible enough to adapt to different ways each client would want to work and setU their data.
A small company with giant clients
Brian shares his experience on meetings with big companies and how VCs recommend him to keep aiming to those big clients.
Sideprojects
Brian talks about how his pre-conceived recipe for ow to develop and organize big sites hasn't been implemented in any of his clients and Jeffrey reminds him of how many big services have started from simple side projects or even tangents of d day to day work.
Mobile and he cloud
Jeffrey asks Brian what's next and Briand talks about how his company has discovered how clients have started to look at the mobile environment and hos the cloud has allowed his business mldel with the giant media they serve.
Big media
Brian argues why blogging platforms like wordpress are not able to fulfill the requirements of big media empires. He also explains that CrowdFusion works like a glue that takes many of those platforms together.
Quotes
100% shots you don't take, miss.
–Brian Alvey, quoting Wayne Gretzky.
Just get it out there and get feedback.
–Brian Alvey
In the startup environment if you spend 3 months doing research someone else has come to market with your idea and even if it's not well executed they're gonna own the market.
–Jeffrey Zeldman
