Volano Solutions
July 30, 2014
Watching the Workflow “Oh, this ol’ river keeps on rollin’, thoughNo matter what gets in the way and which way the wind does blowAnd as long as it does I’ll just sit hereAnd watch the river flow” – Bob Dylan Ideal Environments Breed Ideal Employees Maybe it’s just me but it’s hard not to think […]
July 23, 2014
Volano Solutions welcomed another new hire to a team already stacked with talent. Brandon Norris started what we hope will be a long tenure with us yesterday and we initiated him to the group with a five star lunch at Taco John’s (it was taco Tuesday). A little bit about this guy and why we’re […]
July 2, 2014
Monday was the first day at Volano for the newest member of our team, Matt Kyriss. To honor the beginning of his tenure, we went to Sam and Louis’s Pizza, a company favorite and one of our first clients to use our mobile compliance review app Action Card. Matt fits the mold of many of […]
June 30, 2014
Software Developers for Straight Shot Last Friday Volano participated in the second “pitch day” at Straight Shot, an Omaha-based accelerator for e-commerce and software as a service start-ups. Volano partners Don Stavneak and Rod Smith attended while Jordan Pascale of Silicon Prairie News, e-Creamery founder Abby Jordan and I sat on a panel to provide […]
June 26, 2014
Software Developers Tackle Product Development and Sales Like many businesses, Volano Solutions has worked hard to build our brand around helping clients solve problems with software. We’re historically a project-based software developer and our comfort zone is building custom software for organizations whose systems are failing their business process and thus, their customers and employees. […]
June 25, 2014
In Patrick Lencioni’s “The Three Signs of a Miserable Job: A Fable for Managers (And Their Employees), the author correlates job satisfaction with performance. He focuses specifically on three areas where employees begin to loathe their jobs; irrelevance, immeasurability, and anonymity. Lencioni offers actionable advice on diagnosing and addressing these issues. I could not help […]
June 23, 2014
Friday one of Volano’s former developers dropped in to say ‘hi’ and play a couple of games of darts with the team. Doug Dawson was one of the first class of developers who helped Volano in its early days and it was great to have him back. Friday culminated a long week and our team […]
June 20, 2014
One of the issues Volano Solutions faced this year when selling our mobile compliance review app Action Card was from a restaurant that expressed concern that they might be held liable for intellectual property patent infringement by using our software. We learned that there was a special breed of bottom feeder that “trolled” published patents, […]
June 16, 2014
Launching Saas Product Launching and selling software product has been challenging and fun. When you’ve developed a nice tool that solves a specific problem for a defined group of people, getting clients up and running is a rush. Our mobile compliance app Action Card has been a great experience. We knew we had an innovative idea […]
June 12, 2014
Volano Solutions received honorable mention in the Silicon Prairie News among some esteemed technology-focused entrepreneurs. Read about Action Card here. Story lines: Nebraska Ecosystem Builds Talent Muscle, Gets Moving
June 4, 2014
Volano has written about the disproportionate male to female ratio in software developers. We have also been in the trenches with our Omaha brethren when looking for technical talent when demand far exceeds supply. This is why we are encouraged by the advent of code schools and the increased awareness that ignoring this problem is […]
May 28, 2014
The term “compliance” gets a bad rap. Immediately the term suggests rules, regulations, inspections, audits and punitive outcomes for those outside of the rules. We immediately think of the financial industry or maybe the manufacturing sector and health and safety compliance. Rarely do we correlate compliance to customer satisfaction. This is something I do daily […]