Events You Love
On Sunday night, Kat and I caught up for Korean food and beers in the back alleys of Pitt Street. The last time we caught up was about six months ago - just before I left corporate law. Life has changed a lot since then. The most notable of the changes has been the rapid [...]
Syed, Ejaz and Hassan (our development team) have been working hard on implementing VIVA's new guest experience. We had been planning it for about a month, and we are so close now. We learnt within two weeks into our marketing exercise that we faced a fundamental problem in the market - trust. People didn't trust [...]
The VIVA team has been discussing for a week how to make VIVA's sign-up process better. We learnt from our first week of public marketing that VIVA faces a challenge arising out of two connected problems. The first problem is that everyone is becoming more protective of personal information online. An unknown company like VIVA stand [...]
First - the important stuff - I am astounded by the images that come up on Google when you search for "hurray computer". Now - the really important stuff: Update on the crash bug Our new in-house developer Syed fixed the iOS crash bug at 2am last night. A new version of VIVA for iOS [...]
Hi all A public service announcement We became aware of a crash issue that is affecting about 20% of iOS users and about 5% of Android users over the weekend. Some people are finding their apps are crashing on sign-up or freezing when it is downloading events. We are working on that, and we hope [...]
Some of you might be asking, "What happened to VIVA's favourite events for the week?" Or maybe you are asking, "Why have you been so quiet on your blog?" Let me first put your mind at ease - we are going really well! We just had no idea how busy we would be! We have [...]
It always happens like this - You spend hours slaving over a photo or a block of text, trying to attain perfection. Then, for a moment, you grasp the feeling of perfection, that shining flash in time, and almost immediately - submit to Facebook. You hit submit, or send, or something of that sort. Relief. Review. [...]
It is already THURSDAY, on the first day of JUNE! For those who are keen for more local markets action after seeing our events post last week, The Urban List has you covered with a really awesome summary of some of the best markets in Sydney. Check out that list here. The big talking point [...]
Secretly (but only when you consider how much I could be talking about this), I spend a lot of my spare time at left-leaning greenie events. Maybe my parents brought me up alright, taught me it is important to care about other people, give back to the world, and not be a d*ck. So, secretly, [...]
Another week has rolled around! Only 215 days to Christmas! Only kidding - the days count is right, but we aren't planning for Christmas just yet... or are we? (You don't know! You just couldn't possibly know!) Thursday 25 May 2017 - Sydney Fair Opening Night After the Fashion Week festivities in Sydney last week, [...]
Winter is coming! My fingers are snap-frozen by the sudden plunge to the teens on the Celsius scale. I am sure a lot of Canadians are frowning at that comment about temperature, but their frowns look like amused smiles, so it is all OK with us. Wednesday 17 May 2017 - Business After 5 Feeling [...]
You might be wondering - what happened to Horace? He is usually so... umm... wordy. He says so many bigly things (or was that "big league" things), but recently, we have hardly heard a peep on the blog. Has he fallen and he can't get up? Is he buried under a pile of decade-old newspaper [...]
As we move into full throttled marketing mode (not yet, but soon), we find ourselves having less and less time, and particularly less time to write blog posts. Vincent and Charlotte think that my brand of reflective blog posts about the inner-workings of Viva should sit on their own, away from Facebook and Instagram, and [...]
Our launch sticker campaign closed on 1 April, and winners were announced this afternoon! Congrats to the winners of the $100 bar tabs! @allan.flick @brummietummies @suls_sydney @annieghungry More information about the winners is on http://www.fuckyeahviva.com. That was all I wanted to write! The rest of this blog post is just my meandering thoughts about this marketing [...]
Your observations are true - we have been a bit slack on our blog. Each of us on the Viva had found different reasons for not writing blog updates - none of the reasons is for a lack of want. In my case, it was for a lack of time. I started writing an email [...]
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