I had the pleasure of working with Scott Thompson and his team at PayPal back in 2009 and 2010. I was impressed by his energy and drive – if I wasn’t building my own startup I would have jumped at the chance to work with him. Today Yahoo announced that they have appointed him their [...]
My thoughts on our latest release: ShopSavvy 5
I can’t believe it, but we have been working on ShopSavvy for over three years – the original version of the app was released in November 2008. Today we released the fifth major update to the application (on iOS and Android). The primary focus of the release is our new wallet feature. Here is a [...]
Counteroffers and Threats
Companies like ShopSavvy are in hiring mode. They are looking for the best and brightest in their fields to come join their teams. Often the ‘best and brightest’ are working for other companies and aren’t actively seeking new employment. Of course many of these candidates aren’t opposed to looking at new opportunities. Tip One: Make [...]
We just raised $7M, now what?
Back in October I wrote a post titled, “Post Funding, The Real Work Begins…” We had closed on the first million dollars of our eventual $7M round and everyone was spending a lot of time congratulating us. Now that we have closed on the full round (read more about it here) I thought it might [...]
My first week using ShopSavvy Wallet
While we haven’t officially launched ShopSavvy Wallet you can set yours up if you update ShopSavvy on iOS or Android. This week was the first week I spent a lot of time playing with the feature. Yesterday I spent a couple of hours at Barnes & Noble scanning books. In EVERY case I was able [...]
Passive versus Active Check-ins
April 12, 2011 By Leave a Comment
ReadWriteWeb has a post titled, “2011: The Year the Check-in Dead” that basically argues the check-ins for check-ins sake are dead. I would tend to agree. There was a time a year ago when check-in apps were hot and we began to talk about ShopSavvy as a retail check-in application. In essence each time a [...]
April Fool’s Roundup
April 2, 2011 By 1 Comment
For those of you who are still wondering, the release of GreyScale yesterday was an April Fool’s joke. When we filed it under ‘April Fools’ I figured everyone would immediate realize it was actually an April Fool’s joke. But some folks didn’t realize we were joking. We got lots of calls and lots of email [...]
Our latest version of ShopSavvy is LIVE!
November 1, 2010 By Leave a Comment
I am really excited to announce ShopSavvy 4 is available in the iTunes store. The full story is over at the Big in Japan Blog in a post titled, “ShopSavvy 4 available in iTunes NOW!” Here is a short overview video we cut together last week:
Free Barcode Scanner License
June 20, 2010 By Leave a Comment
We thought it might make sense to create a distinct home for our free barcode scanning libraries and thought http://www.freebarcodescanner.com would work. If you need a scanning library for your mobile app and you don’t have a lot of money, consider using our free library. We use it for ShopSavvy – the world’s leading price [...]
We’re Moving!
June 19, 2010 By Leave a Comment
We have been trying to figure out how to best accommodate our recent growth. Our old NOC could only seat 12 engineers at a time and was getting a little too loud. Even with our engineers in the field working on projects and installations we need more seats during our peak support hours. After several [...]
