Cool Blog
One of our partners shared this with me today! http://www.itskeptic.org/node/418 This page deals with metrics and how they are used and abused. Thought it was interesting….
Steve
I’m Back
I have not posted for a few days, while building a great company is a lot of fun, sometimes other priorities take precedence. This last week I lost a member of my family unexpectedly and as you could imagine it gave me pause in my daily life. I paused to be with my family and reflect on what’s really important in life – our loved ones, family and friends. One thing I do feel good about; I know the company we are building will help folks simplify their lives and hopefully give them more time with their loved ones. I hope you take time out to let the ones you care about know how you feel!!
Steve
Moving
One of the purposes of my Blog was to share the Journey of building a technology company (FireScope) that is focused on BSM and specifically how Web 2.0 technologies can be leveraged to simplify IT Operations. As most of you know FireScope is a Enterprise Mash Up that helps company’s streamline their IT operations and reduce costs. We have been enjoying wide acceptance and success since we launched our company. With success comes the need for more room, so this last weekend we moved our headquarters for the third time – we doubled our space. This is cool; however, what I forgot was how much I hate moving – when you’re a start-up CEO there is no facilities department to move you. I talked my buddy into waiting with me at 6:00am for the carpet guys to show up. We wanted everything carpeted prior to the team moving boxes, desks, phones etc – you get the point. There were many challenges during our move over the weekend; however, we got FireScope’s third move in 12 months done. I hope this space lasts a little longer than the previous one – at least for now!
One of the points I try to stress to our team is to be frugal about what we spend, I stress that the capital we spend should be focused on our product and getting the message out – not on fancy offices (personally, I’m not a big fan of individual offices). Every company that I have been associated with that has done really well had an abundance of collaborative space and less emphasis on traditional office space. The ones that had office space to match a founders or a manager’s ego struggled. So with this move we were able to keep our emphasis on collaborative space to allow our folks to stay focused on our product through collaborative teamwork. I’ll keep you posted on how we like our new digs…
A Cool Blog
Doing my research this morning on how to reduce costs or drive your business model – I came across a very informative blog on Web 2.0 written by Dion Hinchcliffe, check it out and see what you think….
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Hinchcliffe/?p=135
Welcome to 100% Cotton
I’m Steve Cotton, CEO of FireScope Inc., and welcome to my blog – 100% Cotton. As some of you may know, FireScope celebrated its first anniversary just last month. It’s been an incredible first year that started with a few napkin drawings, a concept and nine founding members. Twelve months later, we’re approaching 40 full time employees, have a mature product deployed world-wide and have generated lots of buzz within the media.
Whenever I mention the age of FireScope, I’m met with incredulous looks. It’s virtually unheard of for startups to achieve full funding, bring a product to market and successfully sell – all within the first year. I’m repeatedly asked how we accomplished it all. Thus, the creation of 100% Cotton, where over the coming months I’ll discuss in detail how FireScope has brought a revolution both to the business service management market space and to how businesses embrace emerging technology to achieve better effectiveness. I hope you enjoy the read!
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