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Archive for November, 2010

Transitioning

Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010

by John J. Walters

As of right now, MeetingCaptain is in a state of transition.  We are going to look for ways to strip the product down to its bare essentials and pair it with an existing service so that it’s no longer a standalone startup.  Luckily, the WasabiVentures network of tech and productivity companies is fairly expansive, so it shouldn’t be too difficult to figure out a way to beneficially incorporate meeting organization/execution software into one of them.

The thought of merging what has been my first startup experiment with another product got me thinking: what was my favorite part of working on MeetingCaptain?  Honestly, it’s the blog.  Not only did I have the most fun writing it, I feel like there’s some great information here just waiting to be discovered.

I spent a good amount of time looking for articles on meetings all over the internet during the past several months and I found few sources of information that condensed things the way I did here.  Sure, there was the occasional article that summarized a few ideas, but most “meeting blogs” are just tech manuals and promotional venues for competing meeting programs — hardly a good resource for someone actually looking for help with their meetings.

Since we’re working to preserve the core of MeetingCaptain because we believe it can be a useful utility to small companies who want to leverage technology for their meetings without breaking the bank to purchase software or upgrade their hardware, I think it’s only fair that we also preserve the blog.  That’s why I am going to turn it into a sort of “meetings mini-series” on the WasabiVentures blog so that it’s there and ready to used by the entrepreneurial community.

Both the company and the blog will be on a bit of a hiatus starting now, although I will pop in with updates as often as possible.  I am determined to make this first foray into the world of the entrepreneur something of a success, even if it was mostly a learning experience that led to the creation of a halfway decent blog and an unfinished product.