Vacation Policy: Be Reasonable

March 8, 2013

Our vacation policy is two words, “Be Reasonable.” Many of the readers here will recognize this as a rip off of David Cumming’s post. It is. David verbalized the characteristics of and arguments for this policy really well in his post: We don’t track vacation days, sick days, or flex days Coordinate in advance for […]

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CPU Processing Trends for Dummies [Reblog]

March 7, 2013

Many of the readers of this blog have little understanding about the AccelerEyes business. To help with that, I’m going to post a few articles that explain our business in basic terms. Fundamentally, it’s important to understand what’s generally happening with computer processors. I wrote an entire post about these trends for my personal blog. At […]

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Startups that Make Big Revenue without Salespeople

March 6, 2013

In the last month, I’ve seen several examples of startups making big revenue without building a sales force. First, at a lunch during Founder’s Fables, Ben Chestnut of Mailchimp and Hitan Shah of Kissmetrics both clicked on the idea that neither of their startups have sales teams. They do a lot of sales, but it […]

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How to Go-to-Market before Releasing a Product

March 5, 2013

The phrase “go-to-market” is succinctly vivid. I imagine toting some baseball cards or coins to a flea market. People go-to-flea-markets with something they hope others will buy. However, on the internet, you can go to market without something to sell. You can go to your market with useful free content and build an audience. Through blogs, tweets […]

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Avoid Chasing Investors Too Early

March 4, 2013

I spoke with an entrepreneur today looking to commercialize some university IP. He graduated with the IP in May 2012. Since then he’s spent much of his time chasing investors. First, he moved to Silicon Valley upon graduation to hunt down investors there, including looking for big company strategic money, and came up empty. Then […]

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Service Providers

March 3, 2013

Here are some other service providers we use. I’m interested to hear your thoughts on these and to hear your experiences in these categories. Payroll Processing with ADP $190-200/mo for 10 people (two payroll runs per month) Handles all payroll tax forms and easy to add states for remote employees Great support and easy to […]

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Phone Call System with Ringcentral

March 2, 2013

Another service we use is Ringcentral. For startups, Ringcentral enables flexibility by spreading phone answering responsibilities across the company. You simply load the appropriate cell phones into Ringcentral, and the system automatically routes calls to the right people. You can choose either to blast a lot of cell phones at once with a “first-to-answer wins” […]

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Payment Processing with Braintree

March 1, 2013

The best service providers are the ones that you never notice because they do their job, do not fail, and do not charge painful fees. For payment processing, Braintree has been awesome. When we were getting ready to launch v1.0 of our product, we started vetting merchant account providers for credit card processing. Being from […]

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The Enormity of Early Adopters

February 28, 2013

Some of the most cherished relationships I enjoy through AccelerEyes are with our early adopters. These are people that put up with our products when they were barely minimally viable. From the early adopters comes the early revenue – those first vital dollars that say, “Hey, someone will actually pay for this!” From the early […]

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Company Culture Impacts Lives

February 27, 2013

A lot has been written about culture through the lens of impacting a company’s outcome. Not so much has been written about the impact of company culture on the lives of those involved. I want look at company culture from the perspective of an employee. People are susceptible to environmental influences and few environments get more exposure […]

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