Sean Park Portrait
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A physical analogy for working in the Silicon Valley system is this: step one: build the most beautiful object you can. ... [hover]
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Worth the wait.

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Our new website.

We hope you’ll agree. Never seemed to quite make it to the top of the never ending list of priorities and then when it did our favorite designers were booked up for months (that’s what happens when you are good.) Anyhow it was their concept and we loved it. I hope you like it too. So now you really can go visit Nauiokas Park, at least the one in the cloud!* And while you are there, don’t forget to stop by and buy a book or two, we figure if we sell 130 million books or so, we won’t need to raise any outside capital and better yet we will have created an enormous community of like-minded souls to help us in our mission to catalyze innovation and well, change the world.

And for those of you who always wondered it’s: \ˈnī\o-kas\ˈpärk\ -

Etymology: Modern finance, from Anglo-American, from Banking, Trading and Technology, from Latin crescere to grow, visio to see and successus

Date: 21st century

1 a : a place where capital and ideas meet b : a space at the intersection of financial services, markets and technology

2 a : an area designed to nurture and grow companies with “disruptive” business models or technology b : a place where expertise in strategy and operational execution combine with experience and a vibrant network to create value

3 the center of an ecosystem from which will grow the next paradigm in financial services and markets

4 a state of mind characterized by creativity, curiosity and an openness to new ideas

5 a place where innovation grows

And remember, everything takes longer in a start-up than you thought it would!

* In the spirit of eating our own dogfood, we used cohesiveFT’s Elastic Server toolset to set up our -admittedly very simple – virtual web server in the cloud.

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  • Louis
    Love the site. Really fresh and functional.

    Just wanted to point out some minor niggles I spotted if I may:
    - minor text clipping is occurring at line ends in Firefox. E.g. the Zoopla text (but elsewhere too).
    - In IE8 some images are not loading for me.
    - the background image of the toad is an interesting choice (symbolic of metamorphosis I am guessing?). At most screen sizes the home box/portlet sits over its head though
    - Agree with cmogle -- IE6 still has non-trivial market share (low double figures I think) especially in corporates so that might be worth looking at.
  • Thanks Louis. You can move the home pagelet around the page - click and drag. IE filter wasn't deliberate but somehow it actually seems to fit our overall theme... ;)

    As for the frog, just one of many images in our library...hopefully they'll all engage each visitor on their own and help transport them to this virtual place called Nauiokas Park!
  • Feels like it is probably clean, fresh and inspirationally functional.
    However, I'm stuck with a legacy IE6 installation so it barely works for me here in the office.
    I know that's a rather obvious subliminal message in itself, but some of those who could benefit most from your insight and guidance are probably in the same boat as I find myself.
    Good luck, regardless.
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