I admit to being a little over the top about the observance of traditions. I try to find mundane events that can evolve into traditions. My kids think I make the routine ceremonial. Getting a haircut is a big deal at my house. We buy our Christmas tree from exactly the same Christmas tree lot [...]
Continue Reading →I still remember September 16, 2003. It was the day MessageRite, my first company, archived its first email message on behalf of its first customer. I remember all 5 of us huddled around my monitor, watching the output of tail -f on our application’s log file. We watched and watched and finally a message came [...]
Continue Reading →Chris Campbell, one of the founders of Wufoo, wrote a great post earlier this week about the importance of deadlines, especially in software engineering. Deadlines are forcing functions to get a team to think about what’s critical and what’s nice to have. Chris does a great job of boiling down how important it is to [...]
Continue Reading →Today’s Wall Street Journal (WSJ) has a great article by Kelly Spors on the top small workplaces of 2007. It reflects yet again how startups can compete with Microsoft, Google and other large companies when recruiting for top talent. The article highlights 15 small companies having great work environments: 1) Alaska Wild Adventures 2) Barclay [...]
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 →During due diligence associated with raising capital for MessageRite, one of the members of the due diligence team remarked that the average time it takes customers to pay their invoices can be terrifying. On average our customers paid their invoices in fewer than 7 days. We had never once had a single customer take more [...]
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