Could you please help me make this upcoming, live interview be more useful by asking a question relating to your most challenging business issues?

If you do, I’ll ask Jason Fried to help out by answering questions from the Mixergy audience during the interview, and I’ll invite the rest of the community to help you by answering your question.

Submit your business question:

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Who:
Jason Fried is the co-founder of 37signals, and co-author of REWORK, a New York Times bestseller.

When:
Tuesday, March 30 @ 11am Pacific Time

Where:
 Mixergy.com/live (watch & interact on your computer)

The 37Signals Story

This post was written by Mike Gioia, who heard I was thinking of doing posts about upcoming guests and submitted this one to get me started. (Thanks Mike!)

37signals originally started in 1999 as a web design firm and has since transitioned into a web-based software company. Jason is also a contributor to Signals vs. Noise, a blog expressing 37Signals views on “design, business, experience, simplicity, the web, and culture” which currently has over 100,000 readers a day.

In 2004 their first product “Basecamp” was created by David Heinemeier Hansson as a simple project management tool. During this process the origins of Ruby on Rails is developed.

Originally made to solve their own problem, Basecamp now has over 3,000,000 users with over 2,800,000 projects created.

Since then 37signals has released multiple products such as Backpack, Highrise, and Campfire. Other creations include a Job board, Ta-da list, Writeboard, Sortfolio, and two books. Jason co-authored “Getting Real” a book describing 37signals philosophies on design, programming, and marketing of web-applications. In 2009 REWORK was released, a book about 37signals views on business.

As a sought after speaker, Jason has talked about business, design, and software at conferences around the world. 37signals is based in Chicago, Illinois and has a single investor, Jeff Bezos.

Jason Fried believes in simplicity.

Timeline

1999 37signals is founded as a web design company in Chicago, Illinois

2001 Signals vs. Noise, the company blog is started

2003 David Heinemeier Hansson is hired to develop a project management tool

2004 Basecamp, a project management application is released

2005 Backpack, an organization application is released and 37signals becomes a software company

2006 Getting Real, a book about design and programming

2006 Campfire, a group chat application is released

2006 Jeff Bezos becomes the sole investor in 37signals

2007 HighRise, a contact management application is released

2009 Sortfolio, a site to find web designers is launched

2009 37signals ID, one username and password for all 37signals applications is released

2010 REWORK, a new business book is released

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