Author Archives: Michael Payne

The value of work managed with Intervals tops $5,000,000

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The estimated value of work managed through Intervals topped the $5,000,000 mark today (volume can be viewed in real-time on the home page). A sincere thank you to all of our customers and the Pelago team for making Intervals an easy to use and robust system for tracking time and productivity. -Michael

Small businesses and one person shops are growing

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The Institute for the Future put out a research piece on small business, entrepreneurialism and one person companies. The report sets out to show trends in small business and shows a large increase in small businesses and predicts the trend to continue. Small businesses are an important and growing driver of U.S. economic growth and […]

Weekly Intervals Improvements are live

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One of the many compelling things about software as a service is the ability to fix and upgrade the product at regular intervals. There aren’t millions of installations floating out there to upgrade. We update our code and servers and the improvements go marching on. This week we fixed several small, yet important items. Sometimes […]

Intervals Infrastructure Improvements

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Infrastructure Improvements Scheduled for this Saturday, 7:00 AM Pacific This weekend we will be increasing the number of servers and changing hosting providers. There is really no good time to make such an important move, but after extensive research into hosting options we are excited about the change. We expect to see big improvements after […]

First time journey to CES

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I am back from the CES show with my initial observations: Bring a good pair of walking shoes, you are going to walk until exhaustion.. Be careful when taking pictures…only the press can take photos in some places (learned that one the hard way). UPDATE: Apparently I’m not the only one irked by this. Two […]

Simple Revenue Calculations if you bill hourly

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Last week I was doing a training for a new Intervals customer and I shared a quick “revenue calculator” spreadsheet with them. They found it extremely valuable for doing quick “what if” revenue forecasting so I decided to share it here on our blog. It doesn’t include costs or break-even, it’s just straight revenue predictions. […]

Year End Traditions with Intervals

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When we first built Intervals we desperately needed a better way of getting organized, managing our work, and tracking our time. As Intervals evolved we realized that there was a lot more value created by tracking time and completing tasks. Yes, it helped us get organized, but it also provided us a wealth of information […]