Well, after many good years at VYRE, I decided to start up my own company with a good friend of mine, Hjörtur Stefán Ólafsson, and moved back to Iceland at the end of September. I guess I needed a new challenge. The challenge has turned out to be slightly bigger than anticipated as the Icelandic economy crumbled a week after I arrived (I had nothing to do with it…promise!). But I’m still strangely optimistic about the whole thing.
I was always looking for that great idea to push me into entrerpeneurship, and a few months ago it came to the two of us: online meeting notes. Not scheduling meetings (lots of people do that), and not webcasting or screen sharing (again, lots of people do that), but actually managing and mining all the data that gets created during meetings, and managing the workflow between meetings.
I wanted something that could answer a question like “Give me all decisions taken on Subject X during meetings with Client A, that I attended, in the following time interval…“, and answer it immediately. I don’t want to look through my email opening tons of Word attachments, and I certainly don’t want to have to go through all those scribbled notes that I’ve lost anyway. We looked all over for a product that could solve this need. Couldn’t find it, so we built it.
After a few months of building, we’re finally in beta testing. I’m immensely proud of what we’ve achieved so far (although there is still much to do…you never really finish an app like this). The product is called Rendezview. Please head over to www.rendezviewonline.com and register if you want to be part of the closed beta testing. If you attend meetings, I’m sure you’re going to like it 
