Nope, Amy isn’t pregnant. But Bart Lorang’s (founder/CEO of FullContact ) wife Sarah is. And Bart has started a new blog called Startup Baby . Well – it’s sort of a blog, or a Medium thing – whatever those are called. His first post is awesome. It’s titled Holy Shit! I’m having a Startup Baby! Here’s a taste. Now I would soon have a child added to the long list of ‘things I’m responsible for.’ ...
Lots of little things go into building a great company over the long term. Rally Software is one that I’m proud to have been involved in from the beginning. I remember when Ryan Martens, the founder, would sit for entire days in a small conference room near my office covering the white boards on the walls with his scribblings. Today Rally is a 150 person company that plans to add another 75 people in 2010 on the heels of Rally’s $16 million financing led by Greylock . And – since their birth in 2002, Rally has had 17 babies (well – people that work for Rally have had the babies, but you probably figured that out.) Recently, Rally’s leadership team decided to do something about this. ...