Tomorrow’s cover today: the revolution that Steve Jobs led is only just beginning
The master
Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect.
- Jack Dorsey
El mundo necesita gente
que deje de dormir
por cumplir sus sueños.
Gente que con su vida
haga historia,
que cuestione
lo establecido,
que piense
que nada está escrito.
Gente obsesiva,
apasionada, arriesgada.
Gente que no espera
a ser grande para
hacer lo que quiere,
sino que haciendo
lo que quiere
llega a ser grande.
Startups and The power of Seclusion
When you put 3 developers, 1 designer and 2 founders under one roof for 10 days inside a beautiful house in a foreign city, things can go either really well or consistently wrong. In our case it works, remarkably well.
The magic of 24/7 interaction is that in the first couple of days personality kinks are ironed out and people start getting along, faster. Maybe it is simple human nature or a survival mechanism.
The fact that we have a common goal moves us forward. We are loving the experience and moving the product forward incessantly.
Closed-door meetings and Startups.
Today, I’m thinking about closed-door meetings, geographically distributed teams and the barriers that each bring to a work environment.
The closeness of face-to-face work makes work relationships stronger, no doubt about it. However, office collaboration erodes as folks with decision-making power make decisions behind close doors. Though closed-door meetings are important (sometimes), they put a bigger barrier between management and the rest of the team than a properly managed geographical distance can put.
Are you running a members-only top level management team within your company or are allowing for real feedback from the people you hire.
So, open your doors, make decisions with input and filter the worthless stuff out. Reward the top performers with more responsibility and ownership. Nurture rational decision-making power and show the way by example.
Push ownership for the product to all people and in all directions at your startup.
Starting a company from scratch and blogging all the way through (or at least trying to).
Having a new baby, a new office and a new round of funding all in the same month, tends to make things spin pretty fast. Thankfully I am not building a startup alone and I’ve learned to really appreciate the supportive nature of people, specially my friend and co-founder Santosh. Pete, I love you too :)
You’ve seen some pictures of the Daemonic Labs offices. You will start seeing a lot more in this blog about our progress. The purpose is to keep people in the outside up to speed with what’s going on here at Daemonic and to keep me aiming for the fences —though sometimes that’s not always the best.
This will remain my personal blog.
We will soon launch a company blog and website so that you can visit us.
In the mean time, go ahead and visit dabble.it which is our welcome site. We are receiving requests for early invites. We can’t say much, but what I can tell you is that you will love the app as it is helpful and packed with relevant functions that take mobile apps and communication to the next level.
Our new office. We’re packing it up with furniture, super fast internet, PS3, good coffee, engineers, NAS and more!
