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Went into Speakaboos to help with some product planning.
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Helped build a Salesforce lead gen / sales funnel for one of my clients on Tuesday.
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Snowy day in midtown at Speakaboos.
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On Thursday I went into Slice for the afternoon.
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...and helped them with some product strategy and go-to-market strategy.
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On Wednesday I went into Speakaboos (an app that helps kids learn to read)...
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Temporary door signage.
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On Tuesday I headed to Voray's new offices in mid-town.
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On Monday, Quinn sent me the first working version of the crypto ping monitoring software we'd been working on! Always exciting to see something you dreamed up in your head turn into working software!
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Tuesday afternoon I went into Voray to organize the process through which post-event feedback was collected.
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Spoiler alert - a few weeks after we got the first version of the software running....the bottom fell out of the alt-coin market (for the first time) and I decided to stop working on it. Lol. Was super-fun and interesting project for a while tho!
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Went into Voray on Monday and the office was a ghost town by 530. (Doh!) except for one sales dude who was still banging out calls like a boss.
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...and to get their Sprint ceremonies scheduled!
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...to help with their sales and activation process...
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Back to Voray on Friday...
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On Wednesday I went to Voray's fancy new office that overlooks Bryant Park
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Plan for a plan with Brianna.
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On Tuesday afternoon I took Lauren, one of my product managers at Voray, out for lunch.
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...and then went over to Voray where Eric was proud to show off his baby-starter version!
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On Monday I had to stop by both Slice and Voray. I love working with startups that are at different stages of growth and seeing how they change over time. On my way out of Slice, I took this photo of their impressive sales countdown board....
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Vin, "Hey, hey, take a picture of me." Me, "Why, what are you doing." Vin (whispers) "I'm Legolas." (I went ahead an linked that just in case there are any non-virgins who read this site and still want to be in on the joke).
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...and David gave us a year-end speech!
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Here's to another good year!
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Afterwards, we all headed to a nearby restaurant....
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...for our Voray holiday party!
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...to Voray's employees and investors.
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Cool to see the company grow!
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On Wednesday afternoon, we had our year-end roadmap presentation....
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Then went to a start-up advisory panel where I had been invited to speak as a guest.
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I went ahead and got a custom, BTC-related phone number for my new (very short-lived) crypto consulting service I was playing around with.
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...and set up Crypto Advisory Services.
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Spent Friday afternoon at a LeagueApps product strategy offsite.
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On Wednesday had a board meeting to review growth-plans with Voray's investors.
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On Monday afternoon, I went into Voray's offices for a bit.
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Thanks for having us, Mark!
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Smoky goodness.
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After dinner, Mark passed cigars out to everyone!
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After our day session, Mark Gerson, one of Voray's main investors, had everyone over to his apartment for dinner.
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On Tuesday afternoon, we had a Voray offsite with the whole team!
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...all of the hiring and growth planning we'd talked through at our offsite earlier in the month.
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Nice to take the team through...
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Yassss.
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Well-catered spread from Virgils.
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Brianna went first!
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And then we hit the lake again, this time to do some tubin!
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Pretty great, off-site! Thanks for having me along, Voray!
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...and whiteboarding session...
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...outside on the deck.
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Not a bad lil work day.
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After we wrapped things up, we grabbed the boat and hit the lake to enjoy some sunshine!
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...with a lovely view of the lake!
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We had a 3-hour quarterly planning...
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Tuesday afternoon session of Product Strategy whiteboarding over at Slice
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Had a meeting to go in and meet with the MyPizza team, who had recently renamed the company to Slice!
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On Wednesday evening I went out for drinks with the Voray team to celebrate Brianna's birthday!
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Haha. Love these pics of carefree, Risky Business Vin.
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Biked up to Voray and chatted with Vin for a bit (who I'd helped land a job at Voray).
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Went into Voray for the afternoon and helped them whiteboard their sales process so they could set up Salesforce to better understand their sales pipeline.
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I got Kevin a job working at Voray, one of my start-up clients and he was stoked on free food Thursdays. lol.
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...giving an update on the company's growth to their investors and board members. I love that I get invited into start-ups and get to help them put together plans to grow and hire more people! So many exciting developments but all I could think about was...
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...was anybody noticing that I basically eat the entire chocolate babka by myself????
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On Tuesday I spent my afternoon at LeagueApps' board meeting...
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Tuesday whiteboarding at Voray.
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On Monday I went to Voray's new offices for work. Check out their awesome view of Bryant Park.
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...to check out LeagueApps' annual charity basketball event "Ballin for Charity"
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On Saturday I rode my bike down to the Pier in East River Park...
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to the bowling alley in Hell's Kitchen.
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On Monday after work at Voray we headed...
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More whiteboarding with Voray helping them map out their Salesforce process so they'd have better communication between their Sales & Customer Success teams.
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Whiteboarding with Voray. Fun to help a start-up understand how they are currently identify, selling & acquiring new customers and where there are the best opportunities to improve.
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Stopped by the OTAs closing dinner event on Tuesday...
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Nice to see how my different software clients come up with different ways to try to memorialize the culture and the milestones of the business as they experience rapid growth.
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...which they call the OTAs.
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On Monday I spent the day with LeagueApps for the first of their two, semi-annual offsites...
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Did some sketches for Voray on Thursday. You know it's an early stage start-up...
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...if they've got me drawing product-page UX notes for the CTO!
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Got a nice lil schwaggy backpack out of it!
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Went into Voray to wrap up my work with them for the year! Thanks for having me! Fun to watch you guys grow!
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Love me a workin lunch.
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On Tuesday I went into Preo to help them do some road map work.
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Went into Voray on Monday afternoon.
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Spent Thursday afternoon at LeagueApps helping them plan to hire more staff! My favorite kind of work.
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Went into LeagueApps and they got a new fancy logo on the wall.
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We spent some time taking our pre-experiment guesses about the results...
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...and mapping it against the actual results of the pilot we ran!
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Then took all the data and put it into a presentation for their investors! (If you work at a start up that could use some help with product, don't hesitate to reach out!)
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...breakdown and report the results of a recent product launch in Bogata I'd helped them plan
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On Tuesday afternoon I went to Preo's offices to help them...
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The very next day I got ANOTHER email from LeagueApps' CEO that they'd just broken the transaction record AGAIN! (I'm still working with LeagueApps 3 years later and I'm happy to report that in September of this year, we hit the milestone of the BILLIONTH dollar transacted on their platform!) All those almost-million dollar days add-up!
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Headed into Preo in the afternoon to help their CEO map out a plan for the next month...
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...with the rest of their team in Bogata.
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Got an awesome email from LeagueApps' CEO that the company had just broken the daily transaction record for the 3rd Monday in a row. Nothing more satisfying to me than helping a startup company grow!
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Went into Voray to help with some product work on Tuesday!
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Spent Tuesday whiteboarding with the founders of a Startup called Preo!
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LeagueApps' Board Meeting!
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Spent the afternoon working with LeagueApps!