Michael is the co-founder and managing director of Meister, the company behind MindMeister and MeisterTask. He blogs about creativity, productivity and collaboration.
When Michael Hollauf and Till Vollmer founded Meister in 2006, they were two mind mapping enthusiasts with big dreams and shallow pockets. Today, they are proud to announce the successful completion of a deal to raise $52 million in growth financing from […]
Read article "Time to Grow: Announcing Meister’s $52 Million Growth Financing"
The effects of Covid-19 are not limited to public health: the economic ripples of this unprecedented crisis are bound to influence the world of work for years to come. While the challenges that businesses face everywhere are as numerous as they are […]
Digitalization does not just happen; it needs to be proactively managed. Parallel to the business world’s intensifying desire to “go digital,” the number of tools available for implementing the required changes is growing. In recent years, countless apps have emerged onto the […]
Read article "Investing Your Digitalization Budget the Right Way"
Business digitalization. Yes, it’s an old topic, but understanding what it means in reality – and what the implications are for your business – is essential to your growth. Ready to take your business to the next level? Then read on! Digitalization […]
Read article "Why Business Digitalization Can’t Wait – And How It Can Boost Growth"
Break out the champagne, get balloons, hire a uni-cycling trapeze artist and order a five-tier cake. Why? ‘Cos Meister has reason to celebrate! Our headcount just surpassed the 50 person mark! Meister is officially an SME! Small to medium enterprise! So what will […]
Read article "New Meisters: Manuela, Kelly, Florian and Daniel"
Haven’t heard from us in a while? That’s because we’ve been very busy adding to our growing team. On that note, we’d like to formally welcome Felix, Maria and Sandra. They’ll be utilizing their expertise in the QA, Software Development and Growth […]
Read article "Welcome to The Meister Team: Felix, Maria and Sandra!"
If you’ve logged on to your MindMeister and MeisterTask accounts lately, you’ve probably noticed lots of updates from Meister HQ. We’ve made a few changes. Do not panic. It was all intentional. Meister has debuted a new name and logo and so […]
Big news from Meister HQ — our team has grown! We’ve got three amazing new employees to introduce, bringing their swag to our mobile development and Customer Success teams. Say hello to Maros, Jonathan and Thomas. “Without continual growth and progress, such […]
Read article "Welcoming Our New Team Members: Maros, Jonathan and Thomas"
Meister HQ is on a roll and it seems to just get… bigger. We’ve got four additional team members to add to our rota, all bringing unique sets of skills to the Meister table. From Marketing and DevOps to Customer Success and […]
Read article "Welcoming our new team members: Tarryn, Emil, Kurt and Jolanta"
It feels like every other week that we’re writing one of these posts, but with two growing products to develop, there’s a lot to do at Meister HQ! Fortunately, we’ve found the team to do it 🙂 This week, we’re welcoming another four […]
Read article "Welcoming Our New Team Members: Abbie, Hans, David and Pilar"
As our team at Meister HQ continues to grow, we’re delighted to welcome five new team members on board across our marketing, development, finance and customer success teams. Here’s what Mladen, Zsofi, Martin, Berni and Ionut bring to our team: Mladen Jokanovic […]
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It’s been eleven years since Till and I founded MeisterLabs and since launching, we’ve come up against our fair share of hurdles. Fortunately, we’ve weathered each storm and at every plateau discovered new ways to breathe life into the business and our approach […]
Read article "4 Challenges Every Growing SaaS Business Will Face"
It’s been all hands on deck at MeisterLabs the last few months, as we’ve been implementing a bunch of new, exciting updates for both MindMeister and MeisterTask. With it being all go, we’re delighted to welcome five new team members to our […]
Read article "Welcoming Our New Team Members: Tom, Seamus, Meli, Neel & Adam"
At MeisterLabs, we did our first usability test last year on our mind mapping product, MindMeister. As a team that focuses on designing attractive and easy-to-use software, the test was an eye-opening experience. It forced us to think long and hard about […]
Read article "Slave to the Ribbon: 4 Tough Questions in Software Design"
“The narrative goes that when you’re first starting off, your business will feel like you’re pushing a boulder uphill,” one SaaS founder shared with me. “But once you’ve found product market fit, you’re holding onto a rocket ship.” In reality, scaling your […]
Read article "How 7 SaaS Founders Discovered Product Market Fit"
Following the 10-year anniversary of our online mind mapping tool MindMeister earlier this year, we’ve now reached a second milestone which, even more than the last, puts us in a state of awe: As of July 2017, one billion ideas have been […]
Read article "The World’s Largest Online Collection of Creative Ideas?"
There have been some big, exciting changes at MeisterLabs over the last couple of months, as we’ve welcomed four new team members to our Vienna office. Our new colleagues span a whole range of expertise, from front-end development to people management. With […]
Read article "Welcoming Our New Team Members: Oana, Lena, Flo and Jakob"
You wouldn’t usually find SaaS companies like MeisterLabs at a trade show. We make most of our sales over the internet – through our website, via PPC campaigns, product review sites and other referrals. However, this year we decided to attend Atlassian Summit Barcelona. Michael Hollauf, shares whether it was worth the investment.
Read article "Our First Trade Show as a SaaS Company: The Good, the Bad & the ROI"
Sometimes, it feels like there are an innumerable number of things that divide us. Even at work, there seem to be a hundred big and small issues that cause friction —miscommunications, misunderstandings and mismatches. Bad prerequisites, wrong assumptions and ill-conceived goals. It […]
We’re very happy to finally present one of the most frequently requested features in MindMeister: the ability to select multiple topics at once and apply formats, icons and other information to them in bulk. This feature is now available to all users and […]
Please note: this article was last updated in 2011. For the latest information on map templates and other product updates, please visit our blog homepage. We’re proud to announce a new feature available to all users: map templates. When creating a new mind […]
After one of the speediest reviews we’ve ever had, Apple has just released the new version of MindMeister for iPad to the App Store. The release contains a slew of new features and brings the iPad experience a considerable step closer to […]
Please note: this article was last updated in 2009. For up to date information on the MindMeister app for iOS and Android, please visit: mindmeister.com/mind-maps/apps-download It is done – the new MindMeister application for iPhone and iPod touch has finally arrived in the […]
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XING, Europe’s largest business networking site – the LinkedIn of Europe if you will – has just launched its own OpenSocial API, as reported by Techcrunch and others. As you can see (and may have guessed by now), MindMeister is one of 13 launch applications of XING’s new Partner Ecosystem. Read article “MindMeister on XING”
The American Association of School Librarians (AASL) has just named MindMeister as one of the “Top 25 Web sites for Teaching and Learning”, and naturally, we’re chuffed about the news. Read article “MindMeister Wins Best Teaching and Learning Site Award”
Please note: Jolicloud was discontinued on April 1, 2016. For a list of all current MindMeister integrations, please visit mindmeister.com/integrations! Read article “MindMeister Is Now on Jolicloud!”
Please note: This article was last updated in 2009. MindMeister is now available in 12 languages, a list of which can be found in the language pop-up in the footer of our website.
Read article “Introducing MindMeister in German and Japanese”
We’re thrilled to share that last weekend, MindMeister was featured on the BBC’s technology show Click, which aired several times. We noticed a huge surge in sign-ups on Saturday and Sunday, which are usually fairly quiet days, and we were rather chuffed when we […]
Please note: this article was last updated in 2009. For the latest information on MindMeister for iOS, visit mindmeister.com/apps As some of the Techcrunchers (or followers of Ouriel Ohayon) among you might know already we recently entered into mobile device territory by […]
Please note: this article was last updated in 2008 and MindMeister has developed quite a bit since then. For the latest information on product updates, please visit our blog homepage at focus.meisterlabs.com Just in time for Christmas, we managed to finish our […]
Read article "MindMeister 3.1 Christmas Release: Introducing Connections"
