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Models for API driven startups built around public data

I had a conversation with a venture capitalist recently who was looking for information on startups who had APIs and had built their company around public data.

Feds didn't say agile development contributed to Healthcare.gov failure

A recent VentureBeat headline misleadingly suggests agile development practices were the cause of Healthcare.gov's "failure."

It's time for open data on open data

Recent conversations I've had with municipal executives managing open data programs indicate that traction around open data platform usage isn't meeting their personal expectations.

Reinventing government procurement

Reinventors is hosting a live, online government procurement roundtable with key nonprofit, business and media leaders on Thursday, July 31, 2014, at 11:00 a.m. PT.

DOJ seeks CIO

The U.S. Department of Justice is looking for a chief information officer.

An open data blueprint for the U.S. Department of Commerce

U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker recently announced the Department of Commerce will hire its first-ever chief data officer. I wanted to make sure that when this new and extremely important individual assumes their role, they have my latest thoughts on how to make the Department of Commerce developer portal the best it possibly can be, because this will be the driving force behind the rapidly expanding API driven economy.