From the monthly archives: September 2007
Last night I went to a sneak preview of ClayValet.com, hosted by founder and all around wonderful guy Mikhail Seregine. If you haven’t checked it out yet, I encourage you to do so. Before the event got into full swing I was chatting with a couple of other entrepreneurs. Two different entrepreneurs – in totally [...]
Continue Reading →A few weeks ago I received a phone call from a guy in Miami. Here’s how the conversation started: – My phone rings. – me “Hello, this is Kevin“ – Miami guy “Kevin Merritt?“ – me “Yep, Kevin Merritt“ – Miami guy “The same Kevin Merritt who once knew a guy named Neal Kaskel?“ – [...]
Continue Reading →You’re reading the blist blog. To date, the posts have all been authored by Kevin Merritt, blist’s founder & CEO. From time to time other folks from blist will author some of the posts. Last week Kevin wrote a post on the benefits of working at a startup and shared a brief anecdote of how [...]
Continue Reading →Today’s Wall Street Journal has an article by Jeannette Borzo titled “Do-It-Yourself Software.” The subtitle is “New tools let businesspeople avoid the IT department and create their own computer applications.” The article describes some of the pros and cons of using tools from statups like Coghead selling do-it-yourself application builders. There are other startups in [...]
Continue Reading →In the last few weeks we’ve started to come out of our stealth shell. We republished our corporate website with a little more detail of what we’re building. We started blogging, sprinkling in a little of our product vision. We’ve started letting people give us their email address so they can receive alerts and be [...]
Continue Reading →The press tries to stir up the notion that there’s an ongoing competition between big software companies (Microsoft, Oracle, Amazon, Google, et al) and startups for the limited pool of software engineering talent. While it’s true that good software engineers are needed by both mature and fledgling software companies, there’s such a distinction between the [...]
Continue Reading →All companies, but especially startups, operate within the constraints of finite resources. Usually the two most precious resources are time and money. Web 2.0 has, in part, encouraged startups to bootstrap and has inspired them to revel in their thriftiness. The 90′s mantra to “get big fast” has been replaced by the more pragmatic exhortation [...]
Continue Reading →Most of us are list makers. Shopping lists. To-do lists. Wish lists. Honey do’s. Back in the 90′s I managed a team of network administrators and network engineers. They were good at what they did, but not so good at remembering what to do and in keeping me up to date on their progress. I [...]
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