Thanks for covering us. I just wanted to clarify some notes:

1. Deals. “Deals” are essentially industry jargon for “projects”. So everyone can add their projects/deals to showcase their portfolio experience. This is like building an online resume for yourself. As new members come, they can “join” the projects that they worked on with you. This builds a collective marketplace full of rich associations of “who built it”.

2. The difference between Marketplace and Deals tab is that Marketplace is a central repository of all public deals whereas Deals tab is your own private collaboration room for team members to post files (up to 100 MB) and messages. For example, in marketplace you can do research on an entire city. But in Deals tab I can collaborate with my architect and engineer with some private documents.

3. Offshoring. We actually developed MyDealBook locally in Washington DC. But we did outsource some design work to Denver.

Thanks very much for your article. Please let me know if anyone has any comments. You can reach me below:

Mark Schacknies
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http://www.mydealbook.com/markschacknies

We have a company administrator called the Company Boss which controls it and keeps it safe.

Thanks again