Yesterday I met with a very dynamic team working at making their startup succeed. The partners, Gabriel and Samuel, were full of that enthusiasm young entrepreneurs have when they believe anything is possible. Websystems started like that, eight years ago. When your company is still in the nursery stage, the sky is the limit. There is never [...]
Ah, Twitter. Possibly the most misunderstood tool online. A lot of people wonder “what’s the deal with Twitter? Why would I tell the world what I had for lunch?” For us at Websystems, Twitter is a learning tool. The amount of information, wisdom and discussion that happens on the twitternets is simply amazing. Since each [...]
We’ll be attending Webcom 2009 in Montreal on Wednesday. It’s refreshing to see an event with such interesting speakers close to home (Websystems is located in Quebec City). An event like WebCom is a great source of inspiration. It’s a way to look at the world through other people’s eyes. Here are the conferences I’m [...]
The world of project management is a crowded place. There are multiple profesional accreditation options, multiple project management methodologies and countless books, blogs and tools to manage projects. This is a good thing. I have never talked to two organizations who managed projects the same way. It makes sense that there would a wide range [...]
We often think about optimizing our day, our work life, our home life. And by optimizing we thing or improving how we do things. Here’s something else to think about: how many things to you do every day? How many of those things could you automate? A good place to start is email. Most of [...]
I saw this great comic at Stack Overflow this morning, and I though I would share it with you. No matter how much method we want to have in our development process, there is always a part of it that looks (or feels) like the comic above. It’s normal. When it’s over, it’s funny. Some [...]
I like to shop online because I can get more information, faster, about the product online, than I would if I went to the store. Online, I can find the product specifications, customer and expert reviews, all within minutes. If I go to the store, I have to believe the person that’s in front of [...]
I never thought about our workplace in terms of family-friendliness. Still, there are nine of us at Websystems, and there always seems to be a baby or two on the way. So I started counting. Between the nine of us, we have 19 children! That’s more than 2 per employee. I think that makes Websystems [...]
Back in 2001, AceProject started out as FreeTaskManager. In fact, FreeTaskManager only became AceProject in 2003. It’s fun to look at the old screen, they feel so…obsolete. And yet, a lot of what make AceProject powerful today was already there. Here are a few screen captures. Enjoy!
I’m in charge of both sales and marketing at Websystems. This is highly irregular: at most companies, sales and marketing are kept separate. However, in a small company like us, it makes more sense to have one person do both sales and marketing. Since our business is online, I can do live demos and write [...]
