The Real Paid PAID Vacation Policy

Last week my friends at FullContact announced a new paid vacation policy and wrote a post about it titled Paid Vacation? That’s Not Cool. You Know What’s Cool? Paid, PAID Vacation . FullContact will now pay an employee $7500 to go on vacation. The rules are simple: You have to go on vacation. You have to disconnect entirely (no phone, no email). You can’t work. If that whets your appetite, take a look at the presentation about the new policy. ...

July 16, 2012 · 1 min · Brad Feld

One Address Book To Rule Them All

It’s 2012 and the “contact information problem” is getting exponentially worse. I’ve personally been struggling with this for 20+ years since I remember going from a custom database we built at Feld Technologies (in DataFlex) to Act! to try to manage the contacts across the company. While all the technology has changed, the problem has gotten substantially worse, as every web-based and mobile app now has some kind of contact info associated with it. ...

July 13, 2012 · 3 min · Brad Feld