The Creativity & Productivity Blog
The Creativity & Productivity Blog
Michael is the co-founder and managing director of MeisterLabs, the company behind MindMeister and MeisterTask. He blogs about creativity, productivity and collaboration.
“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 […]
Read article "MindMeister for iPhone Finally in the App Store!"
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”
