Nikole Gipps at StartupNation just published her review of Highrise.
Picture this: You are the typical startup, with partners in different locations and on different schedules while you are trying to launch your next big idea. A vendor calls you in California, looking for your partner in New York to get a final sign-off on a prototype. Your partner is no where to be found, and the vendor needs an answer in the next hour.
What do you do? This is where an online contact manager comes in handy. With Highrise, a new product from the developers at 37signals, you can log into your account, look at the case page, and realize that your partner made a note stating that the final prototype was approved that morning. A couple of clicks, a short read, and your vendor can get started making your widgets!
Need another example? Currently I have 1,556 e-mails in my company inbox. This doesn't even count towards the average of a few hundred e-mails I have in each of my 30 current client inboxes. So when a client calls and I need to find the paper trail of our last conversation ... well, you can imagine it takes me a while. Having a paper trail presented to me with an easy graphical interface and categorization for all of my contact communications streamlines this process greatly.
She ends the review by saying "Overall, I would say that our production efficiency and my personal organizational habbits have greatly improved in the past month." We're glad Highrise is helping, Nikole!
