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LiquidPlanner touts itself as “a revolution in project management.” That’s probably overstating the case somewhat (there are a lot of project management applications in the world), but it does offer a sophisticated feature set, including some things that I haven’t seen in other online project management tools. If you’re feeling constrained by the features of whatever tool you’re using, then this one is worth a look. The biggest selling point of LiquidPlanner is that they do ranged estimation and probabilistic scheduling. ***

By Tony Conrad, CEO/Co-Founder Sphere One of the amazing changes taking place in the tech space is companies being formed around a virtual work environment. Sphere has operated this way since inception. The four founders are based in San Francisco, Seattle & Denver. We have team members living in Vancouver, Portland, Phoenix, Denver, San Francisco, New York, and Boston. Our Advisors are based in San Francisco, Connecticut, New York, Boston and Atlanta. At first, I thought it was crazy to start a company with no geographical base. As we started Sphere, I had two main concerns about a virtual environment: 1) how do we effectively work together to create a great product/ service? 2) how do we create a culture that serves as a foundation for success? We’ve adopted a number of tools that keep us ticking, enabling us to maintain a fluid, nimble approach to creating a great blog discovery engine. ***