Wraply & Leon
The Guardian has started a small business section which includes the twitter business diary of Henry Dimbleby, the founder of Leon's Restaurants.
I'm going to be particularly interested in following his diary, as the Leon restaurant in Spitalfields Market is very near Wraply HQ - and is where we hold some of our planning sessions to build our own business!
The photo above was taken on the 5th November, with four of the Wraply team - (from left to right):
* Iman Samizadeh, our lead developer.
* Kay Tsang, our lead designer.
* Me
* Venu Tammabatula, developer.
The purpose of this meeting was to discuss with Iman and Venu the user stories that the product team had written for Release 1 of Wraply.com (User stories are like feature specifications for those of you not used to Agile Development, of which we operate a very basic version). That's why you can see lots of index cards in the background!
Leon's was great for this kind of meeting because of the big tables, the wi-fi, and the great food which was also good value. The staff at this branch were also extremely kind and helpful, allowing us to spread our work out, and giving us waiter service in the section that's normally self-help, just so we could have one of the really big tables.
Thanks Henry, and all at Leon - we'll be watching you grow your business, while we're busy starting our own at your tables!