![]() We had clearly elected a leader, a developer, and the marketer. We started arguing amongst ourselves on what the best next step was. The name “card tap” implied that tapping would be involved in sharing the business card, after all we did specify in the original conversation that it was supposed to be a “ridiculous easy way of sharing cards”. I will take responsibility here, the name and the prototype were disjointed. The one place where application seem to fall short is the ease of which sharing of the business card was to transpire. The implementation of the prototype and the technology behind it was really interesting to everyone. Everyone loved the idea, but, we did get some critical feedback. The feedback was almost unanimously positive. We started showing application to many people. He was well-connected within the business community. Someone who was motivated to the marketing and very excited to do the social media. We ended up bringing another partner, Dylan. Discussion started very happily ended with both saw eye-to-eye. We both realized that we need to reconcile our differences to move forward. Suddenly we started talking about different ways of how the project should rollout. My most recent experience of motivating people through employment had produced far slower results. It was impressive to see progress go so quickly. Jacob was fast, and motivated to make this work. We have a name, “Card Tap” (maybe in the hopes of NFC coming to the iPhone). We both hit the ground running and really, in no-time we have a number of people excited about the idea. We both have different ideas on how this should be run, so we decided to split according to the amount of time we have to dedicate to the project, and the skills we want to apply here. What would people want the product to have? How would it work? What is, at the very base, the part of the idea that would get people excited about. We began by isolating what would be the Minimum Viable Product (MVP) to test our idea and solution. It is a very simple problem, and everyone agreed that the traditional method of sharing business cards was ready for an overhaul. Was there something there? Did you have a question any market needed an answer for. ![]() Quickly we began testing and floating the idea. We tossed around ideas, and settled on what was clearly a winner. We are really good friends, and both inspired to create a revolution. We started with what seemed like the right approach. ![]() Scheduled a reminder to regularly add blog post updates.Īlso, I cannot stress this enough, when making a website, get a real photographer.Watched “ Motorcycle Diaries” and I now understand all of the references.Traveled around Canada Traveled more in Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua on a motorcycle.Sustained 200% growth for 4 consecutive years.Got out of the partnership with Dylan -> Growth continued.Got into a partnership with Dylan -> Company grew a lot.On the web side we help people increase their online profile and drive more traffic to their site I really should follow my own advice. If this trend continues I may have a handful by the time no one blogs any more. Does not do recurring automatic payments (this is a big fail)Ī number of interesting events have happened since my last post in 2012.Integrates with a bunch of other systems.– Continues even if you close down your browser windowįor those of us on Macs that have been using Parallels or VM Ware to virtualize Windows, just to run Simply Accounting or Quickbooks. I just downloaded the desktop app, and will write a brief review later. I started this blog post 4 minutes and 16 seconds ago and will know exactly how long it takes me to write a quick update. Heck, it is even really good at timing tasks like this. This is an awesome tool for keeping track of billable tasks. Toggl – Time Tracking Software (Web and Desktop) This is a great tool for tracking and assigning tasks. Producteev – Task Management Software (Web and Desktop) Some make really good sense, and others will make sense after I start using the religiously. ![]() Having just joined Hiilite I got a chance to play with some great new tools. Whenever I join a new team, or start a new project, I really like to ensure good-process is in place. ![]()
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