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Anyone from Xobni care to comment on how this came about? Crack PR firm? VC connection? Angel investor who is Linked-in to Mr. Gates? I've learned that what

by sanj 19y ago

Anyone from Xobni care to comment on how this came about? Crack PR firm? VC connection? Angel investor who is Linked-in to Mr. Gates? I've learned that what appear to be serendipitous events usually take a HEAP of backroom planning.

sharpshoot 19y ago
Xobni are one of the chosen startups on the Microsoft accelerator program. Pretty simple. That & a great, usable product which is making the lives of their users much much easier.
- sanj 19y ago
  I fear the former point is relevant, the latter is not. Geez I'm getting grouchy in my old age.
  - sharpshoot 19y ago
    Perhaps your judgement with age is the thing which has changed, you haven't even proposed why the latter argument is invalid? How can you argue that Outlook without Xobni is better than Outlook with Xobni. Outlook is so bad that any minor improvement which changes the user experience of a product which hasn't changed in 10 years is a positive one. Obviously we aren't talking about the magnitude of the positive change which will increase as xobni improves its product. Surely its existence is sufficient to warrant the acceptance that its a step in the right direction. I would conjecture you don't even use xobni, or for that matter outlook ;)
    - sanj 19y ago
      I fear I didn't make my point clearly. I didn't mean to malign Xobni at all -- it sounds like an excellent product. What I was attempting to point out is that the excellence of the product is often unrelated to what gets coverage by bigwigs. But I am also guilty of not using Outlook on any regular basis.
brezina 19y ago
Actually, it was unrelated to startup accelerator. Just like anything it took a lot of hard work and a little luck. One of the office evangelists became a Xobni user through our in-app invite system. He liked the product. He reached out to us and then we spent a couple weeks putting together screenshots, and answering questions. Every time I talked to him I asked, "so, is it looking like we'll be in the Bill G keynote? How else can I help." We don't have a PR firm.

by sanj 19y ago

sharpshoot 19y ago

Xobni are one of the chosen startups on the Microsoft accelerator program. Pretty simple. That & a great, usable product which is making the lives of their users much much easier.

sanj 19y ago
I fear the former point is relevant, the latter is not. Geez I'm getting grouchy in my old age.
- sharpshoot 19y ago
  Perhaps your judgement with age is the thing which has changed, you haven't even proposed why the latter argument is invalid? How can you argue that Outlook without Xobni is better than Outlook with Xobni. Outlook is so bad that any minor improvement which changes the user experience of a product which hasn't changed in 10 years is a positive one. Obviously we aren't talking about the magnitude of the positive change which will increase as xobni improves its product. Surely its existence is sufficient to warrant the acceptance that its a step in the right direction. I would conjecture you don't even use xobni, or for that matter outlook ;)
  - sanj 19y ago
    I fear I didn't make my point clearly. I didn't mean to malign Xobni at all -- it sounds like an excellent product. What I was attempting to point out is that the excellence of the product is often unrelated to what gets coverage by bigwigs. But I am also guilty of not using Outlook on any regular basis.

brezina 19y ago

Actually, it was unrelated to startup accelerator. Just like anything it took a lot of hard work and a little luck. One of the office evangelists became a Xobni user through our in-app invite system. He liked the product. He reached out to us and then we spent a couple weeks putting together screenshots, and answering questions. Every time I talked to him I asked, "so, is it looking like we'll be in the Bill G keynote? How else can I help." We don't have a PR firm.