Another step in building a company
November 3rd, 2004 by gregr
Monday was a big day for me.
A few weeks ago, J.B. (our CEO) mentioned the idea of doing an “Enterprise RSS” weblog. I told him it sounded like a great idea to me, and promptly moved on to other things and forgot about it. (Those of you who know me know about my amazing memory skills - heh!)
On Monday, I was sitting in on a conference call, reading feeds on my phone with NewsGator Mobile edition. In my keyword search feed for “NewsGator”, I saw the following come up:
We here at NewsGator have decided to create a weblog focused on Enterprise use of RSS. We’re going to…
Imagine my surprise. We did?!? Who wrote that? How did I not know about it? WTF?!?
Monday was a big day. It was the first day since starting this company in 2002 (in a spare bedroom) that I realized I didn’t actually know every detail about everything that was going on.
Big picture? Yes. Execution details? Not always.
And that’s a good thing! We have a lot going on in parallel, and we have a great team who knows how to execute on our plans. What more could I ask? :-)
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November 3rd, 2004 at 8:03 pm
Always a scary reality as a entrepreneur. You hire people for a reason. Let them do the things they are good at. If they have a financial stake, especially in the early stages, it will turn out ok.
November 5th, 2004 at 5:27 pm
Well, that is one of the many signs of a company that is growing up. Congrats ;-)
November 19th, 2004 at 8:43 pm
Link: Greg Reinacker’s Weblog - Another step in building a company….[more]