« Blahg! | Main | Seattle Mobile tonight »
September 11, 2005
Startup Status
I thought I'd post a little about where we are as a company and what's going on since I haven't posted much in the last few weeks.
First off: We're hiring! We are looking for researchers. I guess I should probably put a "jobs" section up on the company web site. We're hiring people with testing experience in mobile wireless. Also we've just hired an in-house photographer to do all the device photos. With the number of devices we are profiling and the new markets, that is a full time job. He starts on Tuesday so I've got to get the new iMac all setup for the photo studio.
Since we launched a month ago we have had a really great response. We also have customers now which is a big step. It is not a suprise, but it is very interesting all the different companies from different parts of the industry that have the same needs when it comes to mobile devices. This is a really pervasive problem. Also in the last month there have been 15+ new devices hit the US market, so we have been aquiring them and funneling them into our device profiling process. This is going as planned which is nice. No hiccups so far. The only issue is going to be staffing up for new markets. Those initial devices are a sizeable hump to get over and take a lot of man-hours to get through in a timely manner.
We are starting to build out our offices. If you've seen the previous pictures, you can tell we've been operating in real startup mode for the last 8 months. Now that we've launched and we are starting to grow and mature as a company, I thought it was time we had some walls. So we have started framing the walls out in the office. Hopefully this will all be done in about a month. It will be nice to have an office, a conference room, and a kitchen.
We are also busy getting ready for CTIA Wireless IT in San Francisco. Getting meetings set up, trying to get invited to all the parties, and getting everything ready so Brad and myself can be gone for a week. It always feels like these things are way off in the future, then they have a way of sneaking up on you. We are flying out Two weeks from today. If you are interested in Mobile Research and want to meet us at CTIA, drop me a line. Or if you are one of the great people I've met in the last 8 months and would like to grab a beer, send me an email. We'll be there all week.
Posted by David Adams at September 11, 2005 06:32 PM