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Friday again… week is over. This week has been really hard but we are quite happy with what we have accomplished.

• Stage: In the past few days we’ve had a lot of activity in Stage. Our biggest event to date, The Offf festival (4000+ attendees) took place and other events with a high demand, like New York’s GORUCO, started to sell their tickets. That means a bit more of support tasks than usual, but as we have said a lot of times, supporting your users and customers is as important as rewarding.

• Bazaar: Project bazaar has achieve it’s first milestone and the first intranet features are already in production. That means that we have found some flaws and poitns that need to be changed and improved. But everyone involve in this projects seems to be happy with what we have delivered.

• Verkami: On tuesday we released Verkami’s new product: Verkami+, a tool for marketing specific crowdfunding campaigns. The first project using this new tool is Fermin Muguruza’s Zuloak documentary film. Don’t forget to take a look at the live map.

• Qstion: Yes, you have read it right, qstion is still alive. We had to make a decision about its future, since it has been stalled for one year. And we finally made it. We have sold it. A couple of months ago a potential competitor came to us asking for it’s situation and after a few weeks of negotiation we sold him the product. Since we really love the idea behind this product, we are supporting its new owner, both technically and commercially.

• Minor tasks: We have also added a new feature to Steel Stock Exchange and started the development of another project (codename: plankio), but nothing remarkable.

Not bad for just five days, right?.

My recommendation reading for the weekend is Des Traynor’s post The fallacy of funnels. Maybe you don’t agree with everything, but I think it’s a good read specially if you have a SAAS product.

Have a nice weekend.

Tired, exhausted and still working. The final launch of one of the projects we have been working in for the last 2 months is getting rough and it’s taking its toll. We keep fighting back… as usual.

Without time for writing a better summary but wanting to share something, I’m going to reuse a link to one of the most fascinating projects I’ve heard in the last years: Kumaré - The True Story of A False Prophet.

While might seem a simple satire at first, it raised on me a lot of questions about what is true and what is not, what makes us believe in others… or in ourselves.

Have a great weekend.

Friday again, Linking Paths week #372 comes to an end.

We have continued working on our projects and we’re one step closer to the first production-ready version of Bazaar and Verkami’s sideproject. As usual, we have been working with Stage’s customer to make their life easier and finishing a new feature for Eingang, Stage’s check-in app. Starting next week, our customers will be able to create eingang-only users.

The Europa League’s final match we talked about 2 weeks ago was played, and Bilbao’s team was painfully defeated by Atletico de Madrid. Well, we’ll have better luck next time!

My lecture recommendation for this weekend is Tom Howard’s Reality check: part 1. It’s pretty long for blog’s standards, so be sure you reserve more than five minutes to read it completely. Even if all the VC-related stuff doesn’t apply to you, like it doesn’t to us, I think it’s a really interesting lecture since I can identify myself in many parts of the story. We have also go through all the fears, doubts and uncertainty for the past 3-4 years. In fact, we are still there, you are always there while trying to build something by your own.

Have a nice weekend.