Today I had lunch back at IMD. Despite the fact that I was a student there are recently as two months ago, it seems very, very far removed. On campus I now feel like one of the myriad visitors that shuffles through each day. Oh well, at least there are still many smiling faces IContinue reading “Return to the IMD Bubble”
Category Archives: IMD & Switzerland
Chance Encounters at the Gym
During my first week at my gym here in Lausanne I ran into an IMD staff member. Tonight I bumped into not only one of my professors from last year but a member of the Class of 2009 as well. Two pleasant surprises to distract me from my cardio and The Silmarillion audio book! 🙂Continue reading “Chance Encounters at the Gym”
As many of you know, I love facebook. I spend a lot of time on it, post my pictures there, re-post my blog there, etc. In fact, the other members of the Poken team are pretty big facebook fans too, as exhibited by this video that our Chief Architect posted of me doing one-armed push-upsContinue reading “facebook”
First Real Snow of 2009
Many of you may remember my blog entry last year about the surprise of snow falling one morning. That came on March 5th but this year I woke up to snow much earlier: this morning! I spent Saturday in Basel at Startup Camp, a get-together for Switzerland’s entrepreneurs. The Poken team showed up en masseContinue reading “First Real Snow of 2009”
GNR Rocks!
What a week it has been: 12-hour days, no recovery from jet lag (I arrived Monday AM on the red-eye from Houston.), a dev team that seems to be gelling/productive, lots of new orders coming in (We hit 30,000 website hits/month today.), trying to master the present while also planning out the future (a quicklyContinue reading “GNR Rocks!”
Google Tech Talk
Yesterday, a small group of us from Poken traveled to Google to give a Tech Talk about our product. It was cool to be invited and it was fun to discuss our design and future directions with Googlers. Several of them now have Pokens of their own so we’ll see what ideas they come upContinue reading “Google Tech Talk”
Parlez-vous Francais?
Another day, another milestone. Today was the first day that I conducted over half of my conversations at work in French. Woohoo! Or make that le woohoo! Note that I didn’t claim that it was good French. Of course, no Frenchman would claim that any of the French spoken on this side of Lac Leman is “good.”Continue reading “Parlez-vous Francais?”
My Diet
My daily diet can be summed up in two staple food groups: 1. bread 2. stuff you put on bread Now before you think my diet is boring, let me clarify that there is a LOT of stuff you can put on bread! In the past few days alone, I have eaten bread topped withContinue reading “My Diet”
What a Week
We are off and running! Poken is really taking off in several key areas. We are now adding ~5 new Poken accounts each hour and our website traffic is growing exponentially. Although our uptake has been mostly in Europe so far, we are receiving phone calls and emails from people around the world interested inContinue reading “What a Week”
Mac Attack
This is my first ever post from a Mac–a MacBook Pro to be more precise. I know of at least one loyal reader who is smirking or even grinning widely right now. That’s OK, we’ll see who has the last laugh once he enters the heavily Windows-networked world of big business! No, joking aside, theContinue reading “Mac Attack”