We decided it was time to put together a shirt for the team here at Baydin and a few of our special Boomerang users. I started the project as I usually do, with a Google search to get the juices flowing. I was lucky to stumble across an awesome blog post written by Adam Nash from LinkedIn written all about the value of a great company t-shirt for tech startups that was particularly inspiring. Just check out the introduction: The...
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Hey everybody! Just wanted to share the email we sent to our beta customers, hopefully it answers some of your questions and gives you a kick… We are excited to announce that Boomerang for Gmail has graduated from Beta and is now a 1.0 service! The plugin should update automatically, and you should notice many improvements (more details below). Now that our beta period has ended, Boomerang is incorporating new pricing...
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I took my first trip to San Francisco as an entrepreneur in July, and I wish I’d gone to visit the west coast a lot sooner. If you are a Boston area first-time entrepreneur looking to raise money, you should get on a plane as fast as you can book a flight. Paul Graham has been saying that the fundraising climate is different out there for years, and he’s absolutely right. So take a trip and see what happens. A lot of west coast...
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Landing your first “professional” investor usually doesn’t start with Twitter and a #pitchvctaxi hashtag. Of course, most investors aren’t quite as accessible, or as crazy, as Dave McClure. At 9:15 AM on September 1st, I was pretty bummed. I was in Sunnyvale for three days, in between friends’ weddings in Seattle and San Diego. I’d only been able to secure a couple meetings, and one of those had just canceled on me. We were...
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We launched Boomerang for Gmail on Wednesday, August 11 at 10:30 PM. After 30 days, we went from a total of 55 downloads to over 70,000. Here’s what happened and some of the lessons we learned. Timeline: Before Launch: 40-50 visits per day, (total: 55 downloads) Launch Day (8/11): 3,524 visits Friday (8/13): 2048 visits (total: 4,500 downloads) Monday (8/16): 11,235 visits (over 8,000 downloads on 8/16) Tuesday (8/17): 9,814...
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Baydin participated in the Enterprise 2.0 LaunchPad this year, announcing availability of our email-based automatic knowledge discovery tool, Unsearch. I felt like we were preaching to the choir, because the keynote speakers who talked before us, including Tony Zingale from Jive and Jamie Whitmoyer, who implemented Sony’s E2.0 infrastructure in SharePoint, showed data about how much room there is for email and search to improve inside...
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