Cory jumped in at 10 am, original time for the meeting, but the other meeting was still going. We got started around 11:15 am and went until about 12:30 pm. Cory had some questions and needed to go over new projects, existing projects, bugs, quotes, and other questions.

Towards the end of the meeting, Steve and Sean were talking about clients and their different needs, both standard and custom needs. As a funny side note, we keep getting great ideas from other clients who need the same tools and features that we, as a company, need. When that happens, we often have a reason to help build so that we can solve our own problems and get the gain and benefit that comes with creating custom tools for specific tasks.

The old principle of build once, use many - comes into play. If you look deeply, most of what our clients are asking for is a unified solution. It gets really hard to mix and match and do a virtual mash-up of tons of different products to get what you want. That's where we can help with an integrated system.

Sometimes we see the needs of others and it help us be more confident that we are on the right track. Sometime we will make a decision based on ideas that are brought up by other outside parties, if we can see a need and then try to fill that need. It is amazing how many of the pieces are needed by each different business. Sometimes in slightly different mixes, but most of the core pieces are needed by almost all businesses. That is awesome. That makes me think of a configurable platform and then go custom on top of that if needed.

The last topic of our discussion was centered around keep going. This could be drilling holes, poking around, turning over stones, and recording what we are learning. We are pretty good at that. No one really has all of the answers, we just have to keep going, trying, striving, and chipping away at things. By small and simple things, great things are brought to pass.