Task Pigeon Launches out of Beta with a Stack of New Features
Today, Task Pigeon, a free online task management solution, is pleased to announce that we are launching out of beta. Over the past five weeks we have been thankful to everyone who signed up to test Task Pigeon and for all the insight and feedback you offered. We have been hard at work incorporating many …
Public Release of Task Pigeon’s Go To Market Strategy
Today I wanted to take the openness and transparency of Task Pigeon to the next level, and publicly release our Go To Market Strategy. This strategy has been developed using the framework of Mark Leslie, Lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, as it appeared on the First Round Capital blog. As a startup I …
What Is It Like To Meet An Angel Investor For the First Time?
Two Thursday’s ago I met an Angel Investor for the first time. This isn’t something you can ever 100% prepare for, so I thought I would share my thoughts on how it unfolded. The Background To provide some context, it was actually the investor who asked to meet me. We were put in contact through …
Three Lessons I Learnt From Our Beta Launch
As Startup Founders, we all hope that one day we get to share our product or idea with the world. For me that day came a little over two weeks ago when we released our beta for Task Pigeon. It can be a scary prospect to share something that you are so heavily invested in …
Task Pigeon Beta Is Now Live
TL;DR Register for the beta now and get 3 months of Task Pigeon Premium for Free. Today, I am excited to announce that the beta version of Task Pigeon is live and available for use. This marks the start of our journey to build out an effective task management tool for every day teams and …
Why I Couldn’t Call Myself A Startup Founder Until Now
I have been living a lie. For the past two years I have been trying to be a “startup founder”. But, I never felt like I deserved the title. In fact, I would often shy away from talking about my “startups” openly with people in the community. Instead of saying I was a founder, I …
How To Run An Effective Meeting In 20 Minutes or Less
Everyone wants to run an effective meeting. Everyone wants to save time. But time and time again I bet you have experienced a certain feeling. A feeling of annoyance as you sit in a meeting room for hours on end. Everyone seems to be talking, but nothing is getting done. It doesn’t have to be …
How to be a Charismatic Leader – Five Steps To Make It Happen!
Charismatic leaders inspire and motivate. They captivate a room. And command attention. (Often at the expense of others who have more skill or expertise in a particular area.) And while it may seem that charismatic leaders are born, not made, that doesn’t have to be the case. Anyone can be a charismatic leader. If they …
Atlassian Acquires Trello – What A Founder Thinks When They See Their Biggest Competitor Acquired By A Tech Giant
Overnight Aussie Tech Giant, Atlassian, announced that they were acquiring Trello. A global competitor to what we are building at Task Pigeon. Shortly after a few emails and messages hit my inbox. People wanted to know my thoughts. Did I care? Was I worried? Would Task Pigeon still launch? (yes of course it will) To …
My First Three Months As A Startup Founder
Three months I ago I decided to start a startup. For the third time. My previous two “startups” had failed at or before launch. And that was despite having success in the past with two other businesses. Going off those metrics then, I should have a 50% chance of success this time round 🙂 … …