I have a problem. Maybe you have it, too. I’m always behind in my emails. I shouldn’t have this problem. After all, I check my email every minute of the day. In fact, I’m surprised that my Gmail screen hasn’t been burned into my retinas yet. I guess I’m a procrastinator. Therefore, my New Year’s Resolution is simple: get to an empty inbox every day in 2011. Think I can do it? Here’s my plan. I’m going to tackle my email overload...
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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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We released a major update to Boomerang for Gmail tonight and hope you will find Boomerang more stable, more usable, and even more helpful than before. Your browser will automatically update the extension to the new version at its regularly scheduled time to update. Not happening, or want the update faster? Clear your browser cache and (in Chrome) go to Wrench Menu–>Extensions, click developer mode, and tell Chrome to check...
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We launched Boomerang for Gmail into a much more open beta last night. The folks at TheNextWeb wrote this review and it just kind of took off from there. We’ve now been featured with some awesome reviews at Vator.TV and Techie Buzz as well. We couldn’t be happier. We originally planned to add 250 users over the past couple days, but we’ve added way more than that, and we really appreciate all the incredible feedback...
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Introduction Project Sikuli, a machine-vision research project from MIT, allows users to write scripts that automate UI-driven tasks. This tool, while very powerful and simple, can cause a number of headaches if you’re not careful. In this post, I’ll talk about some issues you might encounter, as well as how to avoid them. If you’ve never used Sikuli before, you can see demos here, or download the IDE here. 5. Not...
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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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Image via Wikipedia My fraternity mailing list is home to a great group of people, including some great entrepreneurs and some great investors. But when you get 400 opinionated MIT grads on a single mailing list, and the topic shifts to anything controversial, the discussion might explode. We’ve had well over 125 emails come through in the last three days after someone brought up the health care bill, and several folks have emailed to...
Read MoreWe’re looking to find a suitable to do list application from Windows. It would be great to have something as elegant looking as Things for the Mac that syncs with the cloud, runs on Windows, and is accessible via the iPhone. Web-based is fine, but it needs to use Gears or AIR to run without a network connection. The list of requirements for a high-quality to do list for me (in rough priority) are: Runs in Windows Create a new task...
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