June 13, 2009 by MarkBruns

The mission of SALEBARN is to improve auctions, markets, distribution networks and exchanges with recommendation technology to making those auctions more free and open to all, more transparent and fair to all participants. We are after better human-to-human interaction in markets and distribution networks that that are are flatter [with fewer layers, few middlemen, less runaround] and yet more liquid and accountable. Better recommendations drive out bad behaviors and provide more genuinely satisfying transactions create confidence in free markets and generate opportunities for small business and microentrepeneurs and establish the basis for deeper, more valuable long-term relationships.

The SALEBARN company is organized as a private equity partnership; we are hands-on investor-engineers who actively incubate new projects; some of these projects are developed as new information technology enterprises from the very earliest stages -- others are implementations that we complete per contract. We focus on developing data-driven recommendation engineering projects into viable enterprises and core additions that that use information and communication technology to serve the marketing needs of small business and individual entrepreneurs.

Given our background in agricultural research, economics and marketing, SALEBARN is particularly interested in how markets affect food, agriculture and the stewardship of our environment. We want to learn from social networks to develop better auction, negotiation and collaboration technologies to dramatically improve the trading, brokerage, auctioneering, sales and marketing of unique assets, specialty produce and higher-value commodities so that we humans obtain the very highest benefit from the endowment of natural resources.

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