To celebrate the launch of the new Creately Private Beta Release we’re running a little competition on Facebook where we’re giving away 3 full year subscriptions to the Premium Creately offering for Free. How to Win 1) If you already have a Creately account – Login to http://creately.com, draw a diagram and save it anytime today. We will pick a diagram out of our Creately hat and send you a Free 1 year subscription to [...]

With the recent release of the new Pink Panther movie here in Australia we’ve started using code names for each of our Creately releases. It’s pure coincidence that we named this first release on the greatest cartoon panther ever! The next version of Creately isn’t going to be pink but it is going to be just as great. Here at the Creately R&D Labs we’ve been hard at work adding a range of new features [...]

Just a quick blog post to tell you that you can now join us on Facebook to keep up to date with everything that we have going on here at Creately. Visit facebook.creately.com and become a Creately fan – to get the latest Creately updates in your newsfeed – just like you get all your friend’s status updates. The Creately Facebook page contains feeds from this blog, our Community Support Site and other snippets of [...]

Measuring business metrics is one of the most important yet overlooked aspects of running an early stage Internet startup. As a young startup looking to raise funds, we’re often quizzed on our financial figures and projections. It is often difficult to build out financial projections without a track record. So what should you do? Although hard financial data is important, I believe we can often find great non-financial metrics that go a long way in [...]