November 5th, 2009 | Alexa

One of our many goals at DartBoston is to facilitate helpful introductions within our community.  This week, I got the chance to pair up Tom Petr, founder of Schedr.com, and Barry Goldberg, the CTO of Unigo.com.   We spent some time talking about team building, staying lean in a startup environment, deficiencies in academia and technology trends from a gen-y standpoint.

I asked him to be an early guest on this show because Barry is passionate about his work, really good at what he does, and most importantly, a genuine human being. What's his Rule 53?  Barry offered a few pieces of advice that included the following:

• Network, network, network!
• Rely on yourself first before asking others to join your team.
• Be knowledgeable about your craft.

The conversation took a bunch of different directions and towards the end, Barry wound up asking Tom and I some questions about where we think web trends are headed.  What are some perceptions around Facebook connect?  Will future web users value a single-sign on username across platforms?

We raised some interesting points, but you'll have to listen to find out what they are...

[podcast]http://dartboston.com/rule53/episodes/ep1.mp3[/podcast]

Many thanks again to Tom and Barry for taking the time out to participate in this week's show.  Stay tuned for next week when we bring together Sean O' Connor from Ratingworld.com and Steve Rosenbaum, the CEO of Magnify.net! 

Any feedback or guest requests, you can email me at alexa@dartboston.com or leave them in the comments.