We're working on a entirely new product, and I'm looking to meet some potential customers. We can meet in person, over the phone, or via Skype, etc.
The tool is for the small business owner who runs a company of between 25 and 75 people. You used to be smaller, but now you're bigger. And you experienced some personal growing pains along the way.
When you were smaller, used to know everyone a bit better. When you were smaller you used to be in the loop a bit more. When you were …
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…office, it also helps me start and end my day. Like my teammates, I go to work in the morning (via Skype) and leave (shut down) in the evening.
Using Skype, Google Hangout and the like, I really don't miss out on the action. In fact, it's quite rare when there's a meeting or conversation that I can't take part in. I'm in the same room as the rest of the team and can take part in any impromptu meetings or conversations that take place. I'm also much more accessible. …
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He's even snagged top talent from other companies, such as Amazon and Skype, to aid him in his efforts. Now One Kings Lane is putting more and more emphasis on meeting the demands of the mobile shopper.
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This is a guest post by Jon Vlachogiannis . Jon is the founder and CTO of BugSense .
BugSense, is an error-reporting and quality metrics service that tracks thousand of apps every day. When mobile apps crash, BugSense helps developers pinpoint and fix the problem. The startup delivers first-class service to its customers, which include VMWare, Samsung, Skype and thousands of independent app developers. Tracking more than 200M devices requires fast, fault tolerant and cheap infrastructure.
Brett Terpstra has been at it again recently with the implementation of a cough button based on a clever combination of PHP and jQuery to give you an iPhone-friendly mini web app to mute and unmute Skype with a simple tap on your phone.
While I'm not recording podcasts, I am on lengthy Skype conference calls quite often, which require quick mute/unmute action to chime in on a particular topic while not annoying the rest of the participants with random office noise the rest of the time. (Or the literal crying out loud of a newborn.)
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