People’s Software Company

So I was at BlogHer Boston on Saturday, and I ran into a gal at Spring Partners — they’re a software company with a novel web-bookmarking tool, and they were showing off their private beta. She’d been to the session at BlogHer San Francisco where my cofounder Susan Mernit and I — as well [...]

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Hop! (Cropped)

Originally uploaded by lisa.williams

When people ask me what TechStars was like, I’ve got a line — because I’ve always got one. I say, “It was like sticking my head in an active washing machine — again, and again, and again.”
So as long as the drive from Boulder to Boston was, I [...]

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Today we’re presenting WhozAround? the application we built, at TechStars Investor Day.  WhozAround? works off your contact list, whether it’s your social network or an email list, finds out where people are, and lets you message them across a range of delivery channels, then takes the data for these personal events and puts it into [...]

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So the whole team went to BlogHer in San Francisco.
In some ways it was a HUGE distraction, especially for three women who are trying to ship their beta. In other ways, it was a great testing ground, both personally and professionally–We got to connect with hundreds of other women, participate (and lead) a session on [...]

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I’m at BlogHer, and there’s a panel on Introverts and Blogging. My modest suggestion to my fellow introverts:

Don’t change a thing.
Up on the wall in my office, I have a bunch of quotes I wrote with a sharpie on masking tape and stuck to the wall. One is from Gandhi, and [...]

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We haz schwag!

Originally uploaded by lisa.williams

MAJOR COMPANY MILESTONE for People’s Software!
Yes, it’s true! We have schwag!
Just in case you needed a refresher, here’s the process:
1. Get idea
2. Get schwag
3. Release actual product
4. Huge profits!!
(#4 courtesy of the totally hilarious South Park dot-com spoof episode ‘Underpants Gnomes.”)
If you’re at BlogHer and you see [...]

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modern Mum

Originally uploaded by Max Sullivan

Boulder is a great town for tech meetups. Pretty much every week you can go somewhere to see people demo alpha or unreleased software or web services.
It’s fun, but I gotta tell ya, these gatherings are tough on the mothers. There hasn’t been a single evening in which [...]

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Startup Dog
Originally uploaded by lisa.williams

IMO, it’s not really a startup unless you have:
1. Problems
2. A dog.
Just sayin’.

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Next week, July 16th, is the 45th day mark at TechStars, Yesterday, we used a teleconference/Glance/Mac set up to demo our product fr Brad Feld, who was in Alaska. We ran through the problem we want to help people solve, the roadmap map, the screens and then the live code. And then we talked about [...]

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5 am, get up to drive friend/advisor to yoga
6:3 leave for meeting in Denver at 7:30
10 am conference call
11 am Head to office, meeting re application development and goals for week
12 noon  Discussion of user interface for application
1 PM Discussion of development envronment
2:30 PM Head to The Cup for food and to se a friend
3 [...]

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