Gliffy Inc., purveyor of the premier online diagram editor, is currently looking for a stellar Biz Dev guru to help us take the company to the next level.

About Gliffy

• We’re 2 developers with a grand vision
• We have bootstrapped the company for about 2 years and are now looking to expand
• We are profitable on our current product lines, and want to take the company to the next level
• We have lots of paying customers, including IBM, Apple, AOL, Adobe, Xerox, and Chevron. See our customer list for more information.

Here’s what we think your role will be and some of the qualities we’d like to see in you. Keep in mind things change pretty fast in the wacky world of startup land:

Short term:

• The purpose of this person is to help us dramatically increase sales and revenue from our current product lines
• Identify key areas in our existing sales/marketing strategies in which we can improve on
• Implement and execute on the most critical areas identified
• Develop an efficient and repeatable sales process
• Initially handle invoicing and various other duties, or manage the outsourcing of these tasks
• Must be self starter, and willing to take on tasks that may be outside core competency.
• Must be able to deal with high levels of risk in a very early stage startup.
• Must be adaptable to constantly changing conditions that are indicative of a startup
• Should be passionate about what we’re trying to do
• Should have a focus on creating a sustainable company that doesn’t involve selling out to google as our business plan. We are focused on generating more revenue using our current product lines.
• This might start out as a part time position. Help us figure out what makes sense.

Longer term:

• Help figure out high level company strategy decisions from a Sales & marketing perspective
• Take leadership role in what we hope will become a growing sales/marketing team
• Help us figure out a long term strategy that will ensure we maintain our position as the leading provider of online diagramming solutions

Compensation:
Finances are tight for us yet, so our preference is to bring on someone who is initially willing to work for a larger equity stake instead of taking salary. We would preferably tie future salary adjustments to revenue generation.

Interested? Willing to take a risk? Contact info@gliffy.com to find out more.

New Features

• Changed Gliffy license page to “Gliffy Plugin Administration”
• Changed look & feel of Gliffy Plugin Admin page to match Confluence better
• In Gliffy Admin, you can now configure the Gliffy Editor to pop up in a new window. Useful for certain custom Confluence themes.
• Rolled in features and bug fixes from the Gliffy Online payment release. Includes new Gliffy L&F plus Entity relationship diagrams
• Free trial is now 45 days instead of 30. Users now get 14 days to take advantage of the 30% discount, and another 7 days after that for the 15% discount.
• show full name instead of username in revision history of diagrams

Bugs fixed:

• Opera/Gliffy no workie: http://developer.atlassian.com/jira/browse/GLFY-22
• Conform to older servlet spec: http://developer.atlassian.com/jira/browse/GLFY-21
• Problems with Japanese diagram names: http://developer.atlassian.com/jira/brow
  se/GLFY-18
• Text edit doesn’t force save prompt: http://developer.atlassian.com/jira/browse/GLFY-15
• Problems with revision history introduced in 1.1.0 : http://developer.atlassian.com/jira/browse/GLFY-19
• Removed incorrect warning about navigating away from page when user indicated
  they wanted to do so by clicking ‘Back to Confluence’ and not saving.

Many people have heard about the power of ESP, but Gliffy users might find ESC to be more powerful. The Escape (ESC) key can help you be more productive when creating your earth-shattering flow charts, floor plans, or network diagrams. Here are some ways you can use the ESC key:

1. When you are finished drawing a line and want to turn off the line tool, just hit ESC instead of finding and clicking the button with your mouse.

2. When you are adding text to a shape or with the text tool, when you are done typing, just hit ESC to bring focus back to the object you are adding text to. Hit ESC again to deselect the object or turn off the text tool.

3. If you have an any object selected, hit ESC to deselect the object.

4. Hit ESC to cancel out of any Gliffy Dialogs (where applicable).

Next time you have an idea, try drawing it out using Gliffy instead of writing it out. After all, a picture is worth a thousand words!

In this issue:

• Gliffy is hiring a Biz Dev Guru
• Gliffy Plugin for Confluence 1.2.0 released
• Gliffy Online Premium - Still awesome as ever
• Clint’s Drawing Tip o’ the month: The power of ESC
• Gliffy in action: Some of our favorite diagrams
• Green and Good stuff: Trickle Up

Gliffy is hiring a Biz Dev Guru
Gliffy is growing!

- We have over 120,000 registered users for Gliffy Online
- The Gliffy Plugin for Confluence boasts some fantastic customers such as IBM, Apple, and AOL

We’re seeking a Biz Dev Guru to focus on marketing our online product, increase sales across all product lines, and help us take Gliffy to the next level. Interested? Do you know someone who might be interested? See our job posting for more information:

Please email info (at) gliffy (dot) com and tell us a little about yourself if this job appeals to you.

Gliffy Plugin for Confluence 1.2.0 released
Earlier this month we released version 1.2.0 of the Gliffy Plugin for Confluence. The Gliffy Plugin for Confluence merges the best Enterprise Wiki, Confluence, with the best online diagramming solution, Gliffy. Sound interesting? Here’s a 2 minute video which shows this product in action:

New with 1.2.0:
- New, more streamlined look
- Entity Relationship Diagrams
- New Admin page
- Bug fixes

Find out more

Gliffy Online Premium - Still awesome as ever

Have you been frustrated trying to share diagrams between co-workers when some of them are on a Mac and some are on a PC? Maybe you’ve also noticed not everyone has an expensive copy of Visio, making sharing and collaborating even more challenging. Gliffy Online solves these problems and more at a fraction of the cost of Visio.

Visio 2007 Standard on Amazon.com: $223
Gliffy Online Premium: $30/year

Sign up for a Premium account today!

Clint’s Drawing Tip o’ the month: The power of ESC

Many people have heard about the power of ESP, but Gliffy users might find ESC to be more powerful. The Escape (ESC) key can help you be more productive when creating your earth-shattering flow charts, floor plans, or network diagrams. Here are some ways you can use the ESC key:

1. When you are finished drawing a line and want to turn off the line tool, just hit ESC instead of finding and clicking the button with your mouse.

2. When you are adding text to a shape or with the text tool, when you are done typing, just hit ESC to bring focus back to the object you are adding text to. Hit ESC again to deselect the object or turn off the text tool.

3. If you have an any object selected, hit ESC to deselect the object.

4. Hit ESC to cancel out of any Gliffy Dialogs (where applicable).

Gliffy in action: Some of our favorite diagrams

Here are a few of our favorite diagrams & drawings we’ve seen out there:

Floorplan on a reality web site

Some sort of filter system (one) (two)

Map of historical events

Big network diagram

Just pretty

Sequence diagram (UML)

Green and Good stuff: Trickle Up

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Well, that’s it for the April Gliffy Newsletter. See you next month!

Chris, Clint, and the rest of the Gliffy team.