One of the purposes of my Blog was to share the Journey of building a technology company (FireScope) that is focused on BSM and specifically how Web 2.0 technologies can be leveraged to simplify IT Operations. As most of you know FireScope is a Enterprise Mash Up that helps company's streamline their IT operations and reduce costs. We have been enjoying wide acceptance and success since we launched our company. With success comes the need for more room, so this last weekend we moved our headquarters for the third time – we doubled our space. This is cool; however, what I forgot was how much I hate moving – when you're a start-up CEO there is no facilities department to move you. I talked my buddy into waiting with me at 6:00am for the carpet guys to show up. We wanted everything carpeted prior to the team moving boxes, desks, phones etc – you get the point. There were many challenges during our move over the weekend; however, we got FireScope's third move in 12 months done. I hope this space lasts a little longer than the previous one – at least for now!
One of the points I try to stress to our team is to be frugal about what we spend, I stress that the capital we spend should be focused on our product and getting the message out – not on fancy offices (personally, I'm not a big fan of individual offices). Every company that I have been associated with that has done really well had an abundance of collaborative space and less emphasis on traditional office space. The ones that had office space to match a founders or a manager's ego struggled. So with this move we were able to keep our emphasis on collaborative space to allow our folks to stay focused on our product through collaborative teamwork. I'll keep you posted on how we like our new digs…
