Ruby / Python folks who want to work on a successful healthcare product with a team that knows what they are doing. Great work environment and management that respects and understands software development.
Python Devs who want to build a healthcare product that is fixing a big part of healthcare pain for patients and doctors. Looking for thoughtful pros, not egos and code ninjas.
QuickBooks proper is nasty, but one very compelling reason many businesses use it is that you can hand over your "QuickBooks file" to almost any accounting firm; they can do your taxes or solve an accounting problem.
This is hugely valuable for companies like mine that don't have full time accountants but do have an office manager that does bookkeeping.
I wish this company the best of luck, but I'm not sure how much room their is between firms that are outgrowing spreadsheets but don't yet need something a big accounting firm will also use.
I think the very biggest companies (with hundreds/thousands of users) would require a long sales cycle, but I would start by ignoring that market since those companies aren't going to move to this new upstart until it has some history.
So the bulk of this business probably starts with individual accounts and small departments/companies (<50 users). This group is making purchase decisions much like consumers. That group can be sold on the web, and just needs bulk pricing options to feel good about their purchase decision.
This is a market that is ripe for innovation. The large incumbents are very expensive and offer an experience that borders on abuse.
My company has about a half-dozen heavy users and we spend more than $300 per month on this junk. A lighter-weight $20/month solution could do very well I think. Here would be my feature list:
* Cross-platform HTML5, not a java plugin or Flash
* Cope with multiple screens and very high screen resolutions for presenters (so viewers on crappy hardware don't suffer)
* Simple interface. Nothing but "share screen" and "invite participant." No chat, surveys, hand raising or other cruft.
You would also want to support corporate pricing as a lot of users are at big cos.
This is very cynical. Are we really to believe that the only part of Obama's reaction one would find lacking is his lack of theatrical anger?
I would argue that his actions are coming up short too. The simple fact of the matter is that Obama is presiding over a country that is allowing its largest businesses to gain immense profits at the cost of its taxpayers. A few examples include Goldman which is arbitraging the markets with funds borrowed at a near-zero Fed discount window and oil companies such as BP whose profits (6.2 billion EBIT in Q1) clearly indicate that the leases on which it is drilling are priced far too low and don't possibly cover the external costs of drilling.
I suspect that not charging overdraft fees will result in adverse selection-people that have no money and therefore can't be used to build a loanable savings asset.
I really hope this works, but due to switching costs, BankSimple will have a very uphill road to climb if they aren't planning to pay very high interest rates or otherwise attract people with some savings.
Could be wrong, but don't think anyone at Innova is involved with Cohpy. We contribute at OWASP (both corporate and time), and have been a big supporter of PHPMeetup in the past.
We're adding to our team at http://www.covermymeds.com. This product is about a year old and has significant revenue. Our major effort is building our API and a real-time processing system. Looking for thoughtful pros, not egos and code ninjas. Mostly Python, working with a talented team.
The main use-case I see for this is physical objects which already have a barcode. If you were going to go to the trouble of barcoding something yourself (e.g., business card), you'd be better off using a URL, where you'd be able to control what gets associated with the barcode, to say nothing of avoiding the chicken-egg issues with something like this.
This is why the Ruby (esp. Rails) community only works for startups that pay in "equity."
Down-mod if you want, but I've been running a 20 employee company for more than six years and have recently moved contract work from PHP to Python due to the unprofessionalism in the Ruby community (I would have preferred Ruby if it had a better scene).
Our internal products are also mostly PHP or Python. Same reason.
The highway 30A coast, which includes Seaside has at least four examples of New Urbanist towns within a 20 mile stretch that is all bike-able. If you're into this kind of thing, it makes a great vacation spot.
If you want activities or restaurant recommendations, check out my wedding website which is still up: http://mattandmeara.com/more/
Yes, I read the article too. The cost of the twitterer's salary is just a minor part of this maneuver. It is unavoidable that this person will be supported by public resources, just as public resources are used for anything else which involves the president.
I would be for this expenditure if it were likely to involve real communication. Instead, your money will be spent to pander to the proletariat and to oversimplify issues that align with Obama getting re-elected.
When a customer is going to spend more than $100k, they look for a relationship to minimize risk. Golf and similar activities are what the buyer demographic does with their friends.
Do people really think that customers that sign up for $10/mo "to-do" apps are more sophisticated buyers than enterprise customers?
In my experience, many people who complain about the enterprise sales process are failing for their lack of real domain expertise not their distaste for "schmoozing." They are also usually underestimating the intelligence of their customers and unwilling to build relationships.
Disclaimer: My companies do enterprise software.
Edit: I've also played golf exactly once in seven years since we started.
Ruby / Python folks who want to work on a successful healthcare product with a team that knows what they are doing. Great work environment and management that respects and understands software development.
No remote.