Today is International Coffee Day. We’ll take every excuse, ahem, opportunity to celebrate the beverage we love. You can bet there is going to be a lot of free or discounted cups of coffee served today, but beyond taking a moment to enjoy this beloved drink, please join us in raising Read more…
What’s been going on with RoastLog since the SCAA show in Houston last month? Well, we are on track to launch our much anticipated inventory management system. Ryan has been leading the charge, feverishly interviewing a dedicated group of beta testers to finalize the look and feel of the system Read more…
In the land of software start-ups, there’s a concept coined and espoused by Steve Blank called Customer Development. The book which describes this in detail is pretty dense, but once you understand the key concepts, it seems pretty obvious and intuitive. Still, I learned more than a couple of things Read more…
This is part two in a three-part series of posts on the need for a good data acquisition and analysis tool for people in the coffee business Read part one. Part two is about pricing. I don’t know the best way to price coffee, but I’d like to provide a Read more…
A Google search for “coffee shortage” brings up a slew of results about expected green coffee shortfalls in the coming years. I’m not much for predictions. That guesswork is best left to the cable TV “news” shows. Even a fairly dark perspective on the next couple of years gets turned Read more…
As Ted mentioned in his most recent post “Hard At Work, or an Update on the State of RoastLog” we are indeed hard at work on a number of things, including a 4-channel data bridge. Many, many roasters have expressed a desire for multiple inputs when data logging. In some Read more…
Sitting in our weekly meeting. I’m up for a blog post but not overflowing with ideas. BZ asks, “So, what inspires you?” I reply, “Well, if you want to know what I find really inspiring I’ll tell you, but I’m not comfortable blogging about it.” Coffee is going through a Read more…
Here we are, less than a week away from the 2010 SCAA conference. One year ago, I determined that this was the deadline…..RoastLog had to go from a really rough prototype to a real business with a real product by SCAA 2010. I remember that plane ride home from Atlanta. Read more…
Well, this may be sort of our official unveiling. RoastLog has been operating under the radar for a while. Now, we’re ready to start talking about what we’re doing, where we’re going, and what we hope to become. Stay tuned for more details on this blog very soon!