Is this thing on? Testing, testing, one two, one two, one, one, two two two… It’s been a while since we’ve posted here in any really meaningful way. It’s somewhat telling that if you go back in time, you jump from Ella’s 11th birthday to getting ready for her 10th.
Rockbeare Is this thing on? Testing, testing, one two, one two, one, one, two two two… It’s been a while since we’ve posted here in any really meaningful way. It’s somewhat telling that if you go back in time, you jump from Ella’s 11th birthday to getting ready for her 10th.
ROSL ROSL105: The last one… ROSL105: Reflections on Startup Life, Week 105 — The last one. For those that missed the new last week, we’ve just been acquired by AVOS, the owners of Delicious. Of course we’re not “stopping” startup life at all, we’re really continuing the journey but as part of a
ROSL ROSL104: Two years and a TV spot ROSL104: Reflections on startup life, week 104. We’ve just clocked two years. What a milestone! In that time we’ve launched four products (including Trunk.ly). We’ve had paying customers. We’ve killed sites before we launched. We’ve met fantastic people, had amazing support, been insulted, ripped
ROSL ROSL103: Driven by users, designing for customers. ROSL103: Reflections on Startup Life, Week 103 “You know that little ball you put on the aerial so you can find your car in a parking lot? That should be on every car!” — Homer Simpson, Oh Brother, Where Art Thou Of course you’ve heard the saying “the customer is
ROSL ROSL102: If only I had a horse… ROSL102: Reflections on Startup Life, Week 102. A quick trip to the US last week — nothing to see here, move along. It was interesting in a couple of ways though that I can share. One was the culture of the Mac. There really is an amazing dichotomy between the Mac
ROSL ROSL100: Is your Minimum Viable Product (MVP) actually just Minimum Product (MP)? ROSL100: Reflections on Startup Life, Week 100 Since launch, Alex and I have always considered ourselves fairly lean minded (as in “lean startup methodology”). It’s not been a formal thing for us — we don’t really think about it that much, in the same way we don’t really
ROSL ROSL99: Polarizing users and the impact of UI change. What’s most fascinating about the new release of trunk.ly is that it seems to polarize users into one of two camps… either they loved the old version and this is a disaster, or they hated the old version and this is the best thing we’ve done. @timbull
ROSL ROSL98: Release week and the power of change ROSL98 — Reflections on startup life, week 98 What a huge week last week. We met our deadline of the 22nd for releasing the new version of Trunk.ly. It was a massive effort to get it over the line and although we exhausted ourselves, it was hugely satisfying to finally
ROSL ROSL97: The art of making movies. ROSL97: Reflections on startup life, Week 97 Well I know now I don’t want to be a movie director. It’s taken the better part of a week to get a cut of our introductory video for Trunk.ly that I’m happy enough with, and yet there is
ROSL ROSL96: Context switch ROSL96 — Reflections on startup life, week 96. Once again we change gears. The last few weeks have been head down coding on SportsDP. Now that’s launched and out the door, my focus is switching back to Trunk.ly. But now it’s not coding, it’s marketing. With the
Warrior cats birthday cake Ready for Ella’s 11th birthday party. My bi-annual cake decoration effort.
Warrior cats birthday cake Ready for Ella’s 11th birthday party. My bi-annual cake decoration effort.
Warrior cats birthday cake Ready for Ella’s 11th birthday party. My bi-annual cake decoration effort.
Rockbeare Warrior cats birthday cake Ready for Ella’s 11th birthday party. My bi-annual cake decoration effort.
ROSL ROSL95: Launch! And deadlines… ROSL95: Reflections on startup life, week 95. Wow, another week where I didn’t write a Monday post. I think it’s because I’ve been flat out with the contracting work I’ve been doing on Sports Digital Passion. Which begs the question — why aren’t I that busy
