Congrats on getting such early feedback and vetting. In fact hearing your story about an internal award/competition just added +1 to Intuit's cool points in my books.

Thanks espadagroup. Intuit is a great place to work, learn and practice skills including design thinking.

Turns out Tumblr's having some downtime... Post can be viewed here: http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=159265784121760&...

Every company with developers should be in the business of productivity tools for their devs. Even if there may never be a real money-making business there, those tools can be contributed to the open source ecosystem.

How did you protect your IP from being claimed in part by your previous employer? Are you the only one who ever touched the code?

From the article: I decided to leave Intuit and fundamentally improve communication in a way that would obsolete notebox.

Sounds like notebox and CompanyLine are two different products that don't necessarily share code.

The two product are not related. Every VC/Angel so far has asked about that topic. Thanks for reading the post!

It sounds as if CompanyLine was the product "you really needed at your previous employer". This is exactly what PG recommends for startup ideas. Good luck!

How can you tell? All I can find on the website that even comes close to explaining what it is/does is:

"CompanyLine is fundamentally improving the way companies communicate."

and the even less helpful:

"CompanyLine enables conversations that solve real business problems."

What does that even mean?

Great to see what you learned from Intuit and why you cut the cord when you did. It's been a thrill watching CompanyLine come together!

Nice one Brett. Congrats.

The notebox is one of those nice ideas that goes to my "I would love to use that, but why didn't I think of it?" categories

Thanks kschua. No worries - there are still tons of amazing opportunities out there.

Great post Brett. Really interesting to hear a little of the motivation behind you getting Company Line started.

Brett is doing really impressive work and is on to something big with CompanyLine, IMO.

Thanks Ray! Looking forward to more of your feedback soon.

I like your css. very clean.

Thanks duinote. Is it www.companyline.com or the blog.companyline you like? just curious...