East Meets West Dinner; Manila, PH

Three of the four PayrollHero team, who are currently living in San Francisco took off the other day for a 20 hour trip to Manila, PH to meet up with the PayrollHero team in Manila.  They will be in Manila for 6 days, then coming back to San Francisco.  It is a quick trip and is taking advantage of the break in the Luxr Residency for American Thanksgiving.  (Canadian Thanksgiving was last month)

The idea of the trip is for Piotr Banasik, lead programmer at PayrollHero to meet with the 3 new team members that have joined the team while he has been in San Francisco.  This will be the first opportunity for the whole development team to all be in the same office at the same time.

Mike Stephenson and Adam Baechler along with Piotr Banasik will be leading coaching sessions on some of the techniques that we have been learning at Luxr over the past few weeks.

Here are some of the pictures that Mike sent me today:

500 Copies of The Lean Startup By Eric Ries

When Eric Ries new book, The Lean Startup, was about the be launched, he put up 3 unique packages online.  All were bulk book deals with some “extras” added in.  We bought the single “Luxr Bonus Package” which included 500 copies of The Lean Startup, entrance to the Luxr program, 4 hours with Eric Ries and much much more.  This purchase triggered our move to San Francisco, the return of some of our team from Manila and a laser focus on getting PayrollHero launched in North America by year end.

If you want a copy of The Lean Startup, drop your email address in here, we will be selecting a few and sending them free copies of the book in the coming weeks.

Here is what 500 copies looks like packed into a car: