fletchrichman

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Boulder, PivotDesk, Spark Boulder, wannabe hacker.

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Comment · 1 month ago

This looks great can’t wait to try it out

Comment · 3 years ago

Did you actually make the landing site using your own tool?

Comment · 5 years ago

heck yea dave!! can't wait to read it

Comment · 11 years ago

No, the new term is "Cockroach" - https://medium.com/@caterina/the-age-of-the-cockroach-5a720d...

Comment · 11 years ago

profit != success of a company. some of the best companies in the world run a deficit and its a smart thing to do. https://medium.com/@girlziplocked/why-amazon-isn-t-a-fucking.... so the fact that they have no profit means nothing.

The Hackers Guide to Fundraising fletcher.io

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Comment · 12 years ago

I'll give some insight from the PivotDesk side - I've been working there for over 2 years. We actually have a great feedback culture - he even mentions several times in the post how there was an extended period of time where this was a known issue that was being worked on.

"Over the past six months I gradually lost the confidence of my teammates."

There were actually several different 'experiments' in different tools, methodologies, and feedback loops that happened over the course of those 6 months to try to help create the right team dynamics again. David (the CEO) is always very honest with employees if there are issues, and every attempt to resolve them is made before anyone leaves the team.

Comment · 12 years ago

I've been at the company since Fall of 2012. David was a techstars mentor since the first techstars class in 2007, but after seeing every startup waste time and resources with office space he wanted to create a better solution. In the spring of 2012 he started PivotDesk, and was accepted into the summer 2012 program along with Kelly and one other co-founder.

He continues to mentor for techstars while also being the CEO of PivotDesk

Comment · 12 years ago

That is completely incorrect. David (the CEO) was one of the original cofounders from the spring of 2012, before they got into TechStars. He came up with the idea from seeing all of the companies in TechStars go through the same challenges and decided to do something about it. Kelly joined him before TechStars started. Don't spread misinformation.