Bob Gale’s Blog

I love seeing what’s on other people’s iPhones — i.e. what apps do they swear by, what’s important enough to go on their Home screen, how they arrange things. Here’s mine: Note that I’m using Sparrow for email. Those guys took on a big challenge trying to improve on one...

OMGPOP’s Draw Something has skyrocketed in popularity, and is all the rage in our family. It’s a super simple smartphone app where you take turns guessing each other’s drawings. Once you start, it’s so easy to keep going. I’ve played other drawing games that do all that and more, yet...

Cheezburger Network’s Scott Porad had some great advice for startups at last week’s Lean Startup Seattle meetup. Here are few takeaways I found especially valuable: The Three Most Important Startup Steps A lot of efforts to distill the startup process to repeatable steps strike Scott as still overly complicated. He...

Gotta love great personal customer service in the age of e-commerce. Here’s the story: At our big annual Christmas gathering, brother-in-law Joshua gave a cool map of the world puzzle to our visiting sister-in-law, Neha. Geeks that we are, we were happy to devote our living room floor to the...

I saw a lot of online surveys flying through my In box at the last Startup Weekend Seattle. As the former product manager for online survey software (first at NetReflector, then at GMI), I saw a lot of common mistakes. Here are some tips for using surveys effectively. An online...