Maria Lourdes C. Capilitan                                                                                    

Sysanal

June 10, 2008

Case Study

Evan Wiliams

(Cofounder, Pyra Labs)

(Blogger.com)

            Don’t just easily give up on the problem find solutions to resolve the problem, find solutions to solve the problem. You must still continue anything your doing because it might result to something successful. People will help you specially if they think you deserve to help. Evan Williams develop Blogger.com and Pyra Labs to manage his personal weblog, when it was launched it grew rapidly, they did not generate a lot of revenue at first.

            Pyra  Labs started last 1998. Williams had visions of raising money and building something cool and original. The idea for Pyra is to build a project for clients around intranets and help them organize their work and personal information. Meg Hourihan help Williams in starting the company. Their entire year was self-funded. They took script they wrote to publish my site and made an internal site. People started to use Pyra and it was evolving and they came to justification to do blogger. Blogger was built by Paul and Williams because of the problem which is organizing people’s information of all types.

            They wanted to create cool stuff and to have a sustainable business. They focus on the stupid little Blogger application that people were using on real product. They redesigned Blogger with the help of Derek Powazek. Powazek created famous orange “B”. They didn’t think that they could change the world. They didn’t think they can do enterprise.

            Last December or January 2001, it is the second acquisition. The company service is growing. In terms of users they are getting more and more successful. They have this scaling problems which caused them to have more hardware that causes them all this problems. They blogged to the network that they don’t have much money to buy a hardware, so they ask for the help of their consumer. There are lot of people that give a lot of money. When Meg and Williams started to have conflicts, Meg decided to leave and the others too. Until, he’s the only one going to the office. They got $50,000 per month it is used to pay for the rent.

            In February, Williams wrote in his Blog what happened to him that everybody in his office left him. It is being read by Dan Bricklin. Dan Bricklin wanted to help Williams and they ended meeting with O’Reilly conference.

            This agreement became his comeback in business. It isn’t that easy because he need to study how Linux system administration and Java worked. He created a mechanism to charge people to make their ads off and actually made money. The company’s Big step offered a free desk. Williams started to build more things. He designed and launched the Blogger API. Jason Shellen help Williams to create and launched Blogger Pro. It is the paid version of Blogger. October 2002 Google came out to the office of Williams and started to work with them.

            The stressful time of Williams is when the site got hacked on Christmas Day. The most surprising happen is when he success something so simple. Even a simple thing can bring you to success. The advice he give was you should make up alternative solutions to problems and if you have some plan and doesn’t go that way roll with it there’s no way to know if its’ good or bad until later, if ever.