Big Mahalo and I left my heart in . . .
We made it through the early stages of our Beta testing and things are looking great. We have been slowly releasing a host of new features such as custom email messages, RSS capabilities, and increased event management for organizers. The team is humming along very well. We want to send a big thanks to all our friends, family and early beta testers for taking our system through its early paces. We definitely needed some fresh eyes.
I just returned from an amazing trip to San Francisco. I met with a whole bunch of folks and got to spend some quality time with a group of successful entrepeneurs who really like our approach to social ecommerce. We also grabbed some office space in a large warehouse, which is housing a bunch of startup companies. Now, when I say office, it really just means two desks in a huge room with about 6 other startups companies. The landlord is a great guy who supports startup companies by giving them some space in which to incubate. Our neighbors are going to be companies such as flixster, mollyguard, and tribe. Looks like I will be spending quite a bit of time commuting to and from San Francisco.
We have a pretty stellar new team in the Bay Area to fill our two desks. Todd has over 15 years of marketing experience at AMEX, Visa, Paypal, Ebay, and Xoom. Mike is a superstar business development maniac who sold his company last July and came on board two months ago. Mike and Todd are going to be our full time presence in the Bay Area with the rest of the team back at the Kahala office. Things are really starting to heat up! I am looking forward to all the fun we are going to have. Oh yeh.