Remembering the customers
Saturday, May 24th, 2008You know, the people who pay for things. Last week I started working with an old friend of mine. By friend I mean someone I actually know in the real world. He’s been part of the software business since the mid-Eighties, but he hasn’t been following the Web 2.0 movement as closely as I have. I wanted to get a new perspective on what we should do with all the feed technology we’ve built. It’s been an interesting and sometimes embarrassing week. He keeps giving me the kind of advice I used to give him when he started 20 years ago. My first software company in 1981 was a software mail-order business. It doesn’t get more entrepreneurial than that. We were selling things we didn’t even have in inventory. I can see just how much Kool-aid I’ve been drinking.