I’m not big into using profanities. Generally I think it demonstrates an inability to express oneself due to a limited vocabulary. Yet every once in a while, one emphatically declared expletive can bring the appropriate degree of emphasis to a statement. Our team isn’t just good or great, it’s [...]
Designing Your First Startup Office
My mother, whom I love dearly, has always held slightly alternative worldly perspectives. Back in college, when she found out I had cold, she would call me to suggest that, in addition to taking the latest herbal remedy, I make sure I clean the dirty laundry off my floor that was, in her opinion, creating [...]
Pricing
On behalf of the entire FoundOPS team, I am pleased to announce an update to our pricing structure. Beginning immediately, our entire application will be available for free until January 1st, 2013. Any payments that were made since we launched will be applied to charges incurred after January 1st. There will be NO changes to the level of service [...]
5 Ways to Leverage University Resources for Your Startup
Can you imagine Silicon Valley without Stanford? Boston without MIT? Great technology ecosystems are built around great universities. The reason is simple; universities are a hotbed of talent, ideas and resources, just waiting to be tapped into. So, how can your startup make the most out of your local university? Our startup, FoundOPS, reaped countless benefits from being [...]
Top 3 Mobile Devices for Your Field Team
It has been an exciting summer so far at FoundOPS. Last week, we launched our Android and iOS apps (although at the time of this post, we are still waiting on approval from Apple for our App Store listing) thanks to a ton of hard work from the whole development team, especially our mobile developer Rod. While this is great news for field service teams looking to get connected, some businesses may be overwhelmed by the hundreds [...]
How to Make a Green Business Even Greener
Lately, I have had the pleasure of working with a number of green companies providing waste vegetable oil (WVO) recycling services. If you are unfamiliar with this business model, it’s a really cool emerging industry that you should keep your eyes on. In the old days, restaurants would either dump their used vegetable oil down the drain where it would wreak havoc on the plumbing, or they would bottle it up and send it to the land fill. Recent innovations have [...]
5 FAQs (With Straightforward Answers)
Since launching the FoundOPS application earlier this year, I have noticed a lot of similar questions about our app and cloud computing in general. I thought I would take a few minutes to answer the most common ones in this blog post. [...]
Vehicle Management Tools
Now that the client management, service management, and dispatching sections have taken shape, as Product Manager, my attention is shifting to other sections of the FoundOPS platform. One area I have heard a lot of feedback about is vehicle management. [...]
Consumer Grade Design
Software companies tout the term ”enterprise grade” as an excuse for their application’s convoluted maze-like interfaces and grey forms designed circa 1990. Supposedly, it offers some unmatched level of stability, security, and scalability. In reality “consumer grade” technologies (such as Gmail) are easier to use, have enjoyed higher reliability, and are hassle free. FoundOPS is committed to “consumer grade” design and in this article I will discuss why your company should be too. [...]
