Teaching Old Dogs New Tricks
October 06, 2006
I was brought into this ground floor company by a restaurant owner in my area. My brother had bartended there for a bit and suggested me when he mentioned he needed someone to do a website. His concept was for a website that could let users find and print restaurant menus. Sounded like a good idea. We checked the competitors (of which there are many) and decided on our plan of attack and our USP. The MenuExplorer.com domain name was purchased, we moved into an office a month later and it was up to me, essentially, to get the ball rolling.
Little did I know that mostly (if not all) of our core partners were not very adept at computers. And this whole business relied heavily upon computers; the website, databases of restaurants around the country, the whole works. First things first, we needed a place to collaborate and share ideas and get things done. I was stuck between a rock and hard place because I knew that we needed some computer-based solution for our project management, but these old dogs were a little rusty.
