I’ve always had ideas bouncing around in my head. Aside from a blog and personal site, I wanted to create a website that offered a service. I was a junior in college and knew I had to make something that would create a constant cash flow, just in case work got slow. I spoke to my friend Steve, who at the time was better than me at both design and programming (he still is at design, but I think I win with programming). I proposed this idea: a website called College Housing.

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37 Signals is one of my favorite companies because they make great management products. Today I’m adding Highrise as a resource for contact management. You can add companies and people, and tag them with keywords. I use it to keep track of clients and affiliates, and create “current” and “follow-up” lists to organize them. You can also add tasks, deals, and cases. Deals let you keep track of leads- proposals, bids, etc. and cases let you keep events and projects together. Highrise is a great resource if you’re looking to get organized, and I strongly recommend it.

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