Reading about ParqueSoft in South America, I couldn't help but be impressed with the collaborative setting set up there. Lots of companies can't even succeed at collaboration within the confines of their own company, but ParqueSoft's companies have found the value in collaborating across company lines to other employees.

In fact, the design of the offices, open and airy, remind the employees that other people exist and can help them, rather than keeping people closed up in a vacuum-like cubicles. In software development, this can be crucial. There is simply too much to know, from UI design to database administration, from sales to marketing, for one person to sit separated from his colleagues is entrepreneurial suicide. It gives your more thoughtful, interdependent competitors and edge over you, simply because they're not building figurative, and actual, walls between their employees, and allowing them to collaborate and hold one another accountable to be productive.