Why I Quit Intuit and Started CompanyLine

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Post by bretthellman » Mon, Jan 17, 2011, 7:05 PM UTC

Why I Quit Intuit and Started CompanyLine
blog.companyline.com

Re: Why I Quit Intuit and Started CompanyLine

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Post by espadagroup » Mon, Jan 17, 2011, 8:45 PM UTC

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.

Re: Why I Quit Intuit and Started CompanyLine

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Post by mmmmax » Mon, Jan 17, 2011, 8:45 PM UTC

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?

Re: Why I Quit Intuit and Started CompanyLine

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Post by bretthellman » Mon, Jan 17, 2011, 8:50 PM UTC

espadagroup wrote: post #2

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.

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

Re: Why I Quit Intuit and Started CompanyLine

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Post by bretthellman » Mon, Jan 17, 2011, 8:57 PM UTC

Turns out Tumblr's having some downtime... Post can be viewed here: http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=159265784121760&#38...

Re: Why I Quit Intuit and Started CompanyLine

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Post by scsmith » Mon, Jan 17, 2011, 9:15 PM UTC

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

Re: Why I Quit Intuit and Started CompanyLine

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Post by jeroen » Mon, Jan 17, 2011, 9:16 PM UTC

mmmmax wrote: post #3

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?

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.

Re: Why I Quit Intuit and Started CompanyLine

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Post by bretthellman » Mon, Jan 17, 2011, 9:30 PM UTC

jeroen wrote: post #7

mmmmax wrote: post #3

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?

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.

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

Re: Why I Quit Intuit and Started CompanyLine

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Post by chrisaycock » Mon, Jan 17, 2011, 9:56 PM UTC

bretthellman wrote: post #8

jeroen wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

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

It sounds as if CompanyLine was the product "you really needed at your previous employer". This is exactly what PG recommends for startup ideas. Good luck!

Re: Why I Quit Intuit and Started CompanyLine

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Post by kschua » Mon, Jan 17, 2011, 10:35 PM UTC

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