We all want to do great work. Inspiring, life-altering work. But the way we frame "great work" is different to each of us. My newest venture, ChatterJet, is a shift in the way I have approached business in the past. By utilizing a new framework, we are applying many of the concepts from Eric Ries's The Lean Startup. Perhaps most exciting is our willingness to ship early, continuously deploy new features, constantly collect feedback, and evolve our product based on the hard data and soft feedback from our users. To me, this is shaky ground. I'm a reformed perfectionist. In the past, I … [Read more...]