Why I Quit Intuit and Started CompanyLine

http://blog.companyline.com/post/2797977927/why-i-quit-intuit-and-started-companyline

by bretthellman • 16 years ago

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Congrats on getting such early feedback and vetting. In fact hearing your story about an internal award/competition just added +1 to Intuit's cool points in my books.

bretthellman6• 16 years ago

Thanks espadagroup. Intuit is a great place to work, learn and practice skills including design thinking.

mmmmax• 16 years ago

How did you protect your IP from being claimed in part by your previous employer? Are you the only one who ever touched the code?

jeroen• 16 years ago

From the article: I decided to leave Intuit and fundamentally improve communication in a way that would obsolete notebox.

Sounds like notebox and CompanyLine are two different products that don't necessarily share code.

bretthellman6• 16 years ago

The two product are not related. Every VC/Angel so far has asked about that topic. Thanks for reading the post!

bretthellman6• 16 years ago

Turns out Tumblr's having some downtime... Post can be viewed here: http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=159265784121760&...

scsmith• 16 years ago

Great post Brett. Really interesting to hear a little of the motivation behind you getting Company Line started.

kschua• 16 years ago

Nice one Brett. Congrats.

The notebox is one of those nice ideas that goes to my "I would love to use that, but why didn't I think of it?" categories

bretthellman6• 16 years ago

Thanks kschua. No worries - there are still tons of amazing opportunities out there.

duinote• 16 years ago

I like your css. very clean.

bretthellman6• 16 years ago

Thanks duinote. Is it www.companyline.com or the blog.companyline you like? just curious...

leepnet• 16 years ago

Great to see what you learned from Intuit and why you cut the cord when you did. It's been a thrill watching CompanyLine come together!

megaman821• 16 years ago

Every company with developers should be in the business of productivity tools for their devs. Even if there may never be a real money-making business there, those tools can be contributed to the open source ecosystem.

rgrieselhuber• 16 years ago

Brett is doing really impressive work and is on to something big with CompanyLine, IMO.

bretthellman6• 16 years ago

Thanks Ray! Looking forward to more of your feedback soon.

Why I Quit Intuit and Started CompanyLine

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