I had the opportunity to talk about Bluyah at last night’s Seattle Tech Startups event. I have to be honest. I really hate “public speaking.” Granted, it gets a bit easier each time I get up and do it, but if I didn’t have to do it, I’d be that much happier. That said, I love talking with people about our service, our long-term vision and what we’re attempting to accomplish with Bluyah. It almost makes the “public” part of it all bearable.
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Hindsight is always 20/20.
Before we started making the rounds with our hat in-hand, we received the advice: “Acquiring customers is a hell of a lot easier than securing funding.”
Great advice, I remember thinking - from someone who hasn’t raised any money. If only I’d listened.
For the past 4 months we’ve met with anyone who would grant us a sit-down, pitched our company at several events, and have generally done everything we could think of to make ourselves desirable... more
Release 1.3.0 was launched at 11:00 PM (PST) on Monday, September 21st, 2009. Included in the release were three key features:
Usage-Based Pricing
We’ve been inundated with requests for this. We understand that every Bluyah user makes use of different features within the application and having a single monthly price for access doesn’t makes sense if you only need a handful of features.
Moving forward, the price you pay will be based solely upon how much you use the service. At a high... more
Seattle, WA, August 28, 2009 — Bluyah, an on-demand data transformation service company based in Seattle announced today that it has tapped start-up veteran Tom Crowder as Chief Financial Officer (CFO).
“Tom has a tremendous depth of experience, particularly with early-stage companies,” said Richard Luck, Bluyah’s founder. “He’s been involved at the ground level with companies like Monet and TTM and knows how to navigate the waters in the infancy stages of development. Given his history... more
Introduced in Release 1.1.1, Sharing allows you to create a connector to a private data source, but “share” read-only access to that connection to other users in the account.
In this next screencast in the series, we present a overview on how to share connectors, with other users linked to the same account:
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Version: 1.1.1
Deployment Date: July 11th, 2009
Release 1.1.1 introduces several new exciting features and fixes a handful of application bugs. The application upgrade will be applied to production servers during scheduled maintenance hours on Saturday, July 11th, 2009.
New Features:
Slicing:
You’ve been requesting this feature since the day Bluyah launched — and it’s finally here! Slicing is just our fancy name for the ability to apply filtering, sorting, and mathematical... more