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I started blogging in September 2007. Before blist launched at DEMO, before we really disclosed much of what we were building, I started blogging. It was deliberate that I didn’t write a lot about our product – we wanted to stay under the RADAR for a while. The folks who encouraged me to blog encouraged me to write about things I’m passionate about. I love entrepreneurship. I love technology. I love customers. That’s what I’ve written about.
But over time we’ve launched and updated blist. We’ve used the blog to announce new features, to solicit feedback, to share real user and customer stories, to announce job openings, to tell you we moved and to tell you we raised some venture capital. All the while I was still writing blog posts about entrepreneurship, startup life, startup challenges, interesting data sets, new technology and the like. Over time its message became mixed and less clear than we wanted it to be. But we need to talk about our product and I like to talk about stuff unrelated to blist. So we’ve decided to expand by creating a second blog.
Today I’m thrilled to announce a long overdue addition to the blist blog family. I’m moving here. This new blog is ‘No Wiggle Room‘ and it’s my blog about things that interest me as a startup founder & CEO. The blist blog – the one that started in fall 2007 – is still there, but it’s now focused. It’s all about blist – our product, our customers and our company.
So if you’re interested in startup anecdotes, business war stories, VC and M&A, weird or interesting data, what it’s like to be the CEO of a software company, profiles of other startups I think are remarkable, innovative technology (other than the awesome stuff we’re making at blist) then I’d love for you to subscribe to the No Wiggle Room feed. If you need help understanding my aspirations for this, my personal blog, look no further than Eric Ries’ phenomenal Lessons Learned blog. I love it and you will too.
If you’ve been reading the blist blog in order to hear about new features, learn about neat ways other customers are using blist and what’s going on with the company in general, keep on subscribing to the blist blog. If you’re unclear as to what the blist blog is about, look at the TeachStreet blog as a great example. Dave Schappell and team do a great job of telling you about the company, product and users without straying into really important topics like fall being a great time to run or the latest wines some guy thinks are good.
Those of you who have been reading this blog for a long time might remember that the second blog post I ever wrote was called No Wiggle Room. I love that story about Steve Jillings, my old boss and current friend. If you haven’t already, go read it. I love the story so much that I decided to name my blog after it.