How to tell if you have had a good customer meeting?

When the customer breaks out the Tequila.

And we are talking real Mexican Tequila, complete with salt and lime.

In the afternoon.

Monday

After a weekend of falling downhill a lot ski-ing today the flyers and stickers arrived. Handed over half to the Crazy Chicken and we are now rapidly losing excuses not to get our first businesses to actually use the solution.

By the way, Vistaprint did a very good job. they look great.

Sticky

After a bit of too-ing and fro-ing I was finally able to order flyers and window stickers.

Well, you learn something new every day including:

• don't use the rude vulvas at local print shops in Munich
• instead use online services such as Vistaprint - they are cheaper and more helpful. OK, they take a few days but only a few and obviously you can't get a pre-run sample
• colours vary depending on code used CMYK v. RGB. Vistaprint (and I guess others) best work with CMYK.

We should get these on Monday.

Networking whilst shooting a movie

On Thursday as I was an extra in an independent movie that was being shot in Munich.

It was actually shot in a pub I often go to.

I actually had a line (unusual for extras) because I had the most English accent of the extras.

Whilst waiting around between filming I was talking to another extra who was interested in our company.

Yesterday I met her to take the discussions forward. Wow, she had a list of comments about the app and the web site. I hadn't expected that.

My co-founder - and maybe me as well - will have further discussions with her.

sboring

aka as the post Christmas (and New Year) catch up.

It wasn't exciting.

Did roll out a new release (which kinda justified the purchase of the MacBook Pro so I could do this whilst I was away).

More inches

On Monday I met another entrepreneur who could use our solution.

In fact, because of his business idea we brought forward a feature and rolled it out this evening.

It took me over a week to write the feature but it was quite involved.

His general feedback was good and gave us new perspective on our app. Incidentally he used to work at a company where I worked.

On Tuesday I submitted to Apple the latest app (including the new feature) and this evening they approved it. It normally takes up to 24 hours to then roll out but in this case it probably took an hour.

This is just as well as from tomorrow they have a change freeze over the Christmas period.

And after it was rolled out I uploaded the app to the Google store for Android distribution. And despite Google stating that it could take a few hours to roll out again it was out within an hour.

Another inch

Overnight the latest version of the app, complete with new colours, a new logo and language choices, went onto the Apple app store.

Now, no more excuse not to do more dev.