http://www.grid7.com/archives/102_faw-8-evan-williams-of-bloggercom.html Build something. BIGGER. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:20:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0 http://www.grid7.com/archives/102_faw-8-evan-williams-of-bloggercom.html#comment-6390 Fri, 01 Jun 2007 16:00:58 +0000 http://www.grid7.com/archives/102_faw-8-evan-williams-of-bloggercom.html#comment-6390 [...] Mark Fletcher had created the service ONElist which later became eGroups and then was acquired by Yahoo. After a sabbatical of travel to clear his head, he was looking for what to do next. He started a company called Trustic which was focused on developing an anti-spam product. Like so many others, the tool he had created for himself to solve another problem during development became more important than the product he was developing. Fletcher came to the realization that making anti-spam measures is not a fun business to be in- “because everybody hates you. You’re never perfect. You either don’t block enough spam or you block somebody’s favorite emails. I quickly got out of that.” He took the tool he had developed for himself and shifted that to be the main product development focus of Trustic and Bloglines was born. [...] […] Mark Fletcher had created the service ONElist which later became eGroups and then was acquired by Yahoo. After a sabbatical of travel to clear his head, he was looking for what to do next. He started a company called Trustic which was focused on developing an anti-spam product. Like so many others, the tool he had created for himself to solve another problem during development became more important than the product he was developing. Fletcher came to the realization that making anti-spam measures is not a fun business to be in- “because everybody hates you. You’re never perfect. You either don’t block enough spam or you block somebody’s favorite emails. I quickly got out of that.” He took the tool he had developed for himself and shifted that to be the main product development focus of Trustic and Bloglines was born. […]

]]> http://www.grid7.com/archives/102_faw-8-evan-williams-of-bloggercom.html#comment-5916 Wed, 23 May 2007 21:03:45 +0000 http://www.grid7.com/archives/102_faw-8-evan-williams-of-bloggercom.html#comment-5916 [...] 37s followed the path of Blogger, Hotmail and Bloglines in that BaseCamp emerged as a product after having evolved as an internal tool for solving their own problem of project management. They carved out one third of their time from client work and devoted it to refining and abstracting the application they used themselves in-house to collaborate on projects and then sold it as a subscription-based service to other developers. “It was just a flow of the application coming together and the feedback we started to get from people we respected saying, ‘I want this too!’ We thought, ‘This is something that it would be selfish to keep to ourselves.” [...] […] 37s followed the path of Blogger, Hotmail and Bloglines in that BaseCamp emerged as a product after having evolved as an internal tool for solving their own problem of project management. They carved out one third of their time from client work and devoted it to refining and abstracting the application they used themselves in-house to collaborate on projects and then sold it as a subscription-based service to other developers. “It was just a flow of the application coming together and the feedback we started to get from people we respected saying, ‘I want this too!’ We thought, ‘This is something that it would be selfish to keep to ourselves.” […]

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