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Slice of Lime Opens Denver Office at Galvanize!

We’re excited to announce that Slice of Lime now has a Denver office! As of December of 2012, we’ve added six desks within the new Galvanize co-working space. What’s a co-working space, you ask? Here’s a description from Galvanize:

Galvanize creates an “innovation ecosystem” designed to give entrepreneurs and innovators the best chance of success at the start of their next (or first) big thing. Through the three pillars of Capital, Community, and Curriculum, Galvanize builds a community greater than the sum of its parts to spark disruptive ideas and breakout companies.

This is a perfect environment for Slice of Lime. We love working with startups and have a lot we can offer the Galvanize community with our expertise in marketing websites and UX/UI for web apps and mobile apps. Additionally, Galvanize has become a hub of activity for all business activities, from startups to enterprises, in Denver.

We have already integrated ourselves into the culture in a variety of ways:

  1. We’ve been helping build out the gSchool website, which is a school within Galvanize that teaches Ruby on Rails, User Experience, and Mobile classes.
  2. We sponsored and built the website for Starter House. This was Galvanize’s presence at SXSW which served as a hub for innovators to meet, recharge, and celebrate.
  3. We’ve begun a live UX webinar series, open to the public, within the Galvanize space. The schedule of those events can be found here.
  4. We host UX office hours at Galvanize for people to get quick advice on their work in progress.

We’ll continue to find ways to give back to the community and to get to know our neighbors in Denver.

Our headquarters are still in downtown Boulder and we feel that Denver is a great place for us to expand. As a sponsor of the inaugural Denver Startup Week last year, it’s clear to us that Denver has “arrived” as an attractive place to build a startup. With companies like Slice of Lime and other vendors, mentors, and co-working spaces, it’s now easier than ever to get the support you need to launch your business.

Want to come chat or see the space in Denver? You’re in luck! Galvanize houses a fantastic cafe, restaurant, and bar called Gather that’s open to the public. Reach out and we’ll setup a time to meet. Gourmet coffee is on us!

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Slice of Lime on Conan O’Brien

At Slice of Lime we like to “create amazing experiences.” That’s applied to the work we produce as well as the way we want our clients to feel about working with us.

Of course, it also means that we try to create amazing experiences for ourselves…which brings us to our recent trip to Hollywood to rub elbows with Coco himself, otherwise known as Conan O’Brien.

One of our favorite clients, BrightLeaf, is run by Conan’s brother, Luke O’Brien. Luke was incredibly generous in not only getting Slice of Lime into the show, but also getting us access to the “Green Room” where the cast and special guests hang out and have their dressing rooms. Here’s a pic of us hanging out in the green room, not exactly sure what to do with ourselves. While we didn’t get to see special guest star Kelly Cuoco (from The Big Bang Theory), we did get to see Andy Richter in his underwear, so we’ve got that going for us…which is nice.

The show was a blast. We’re all true fans and consider ourselves a part of “Team Coco.” It was amazing getting to see what happens behind the scenes and to walk backstage and see props from previous shows that we loved. We also got to walk the Warner Brothers Studios lot and check out other studios where both classic movies and new movies were shot.

Before leaving California, we managed to squeeze in a late night that ended in mechanical bull-riding…

…and to go on all the rides at Universal Studios (where we posed with Dora the Explorer for our kids):

Thank you again to the kind people at Conan O’Brien for allowing us to check one more thing off our bucket lists. We had a fantastic experience!

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Slice of Lime: A Teaching Agency

You’ve all heard of “Teaching Hospitals.” Immediately that image of a herd of white coats with clipboards talking about symptoms as they stand over a patient’s bed comes to mind. Teaching Hospitals exist to speed up the learning curve of the collective staff by providing them with real world, hands-on experiences.

We think of Slice of Lime in much the same way. We have a company account with Amazon in which any book our staff wants is instantly ordered. Likewise, magazine subscriptions or educational courses are paid for by the company. We also subscribe to online education websites that allow us to learn, in depth, just about any topic with just a few clicks. Lastly, we encourage learning from each other throughout the workday and during our end of the week “Lime-ness” events.

We were recently invited to Facebook’s “Mobile Hack” in New York City to learn about what’s coming down the pike for applications that leverage the most popular social network. We sent a couple Slice of Limers to The Big Apple to learn from senior Facebook staff, to get hands-on experience playing with some new tools, and learn from other designers and programmers.

Experiences like this are invaluable. They are do-it-yourself, roll-up-your-sleeves, get-outside-your-comfort-zone experiences – and they make us grow as individuals and as a team. Enjoy the video above that documents our trip to the event (as well as maybe a speakeasy or two).

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Creating our own amazing experiences

On the way out of the Slice of Lime office, you’ll see the words in the picture above. “Create Amazing Experiences.”

This is how we think about all things at our company. We apply it in three ways:

  1. We want the websites and web/mobile apps that we work on to be outstanding experiences for our clients’ users.
  2. We want our clients to feel that their experience with us, our process, and our people, was amazing.
  3. We want to create amazing experiences for our team.

Creating amazing experiences for the Slice of Lime team takes many forms. We have superb benefits and vacation plans, we encourage education and growth (we recently sent a couple of Slice of Limers to New York City to chat with senior Facebook people about what’s next for mobile), and we simply have a lot of fun together.

A couple of weeks ago, we had our “Holiday Party” at a luxury home in Winter Park. Big enough to sleep everyone and their families, we lounged around for a snowy weekend, made elaborate meals, reflected on what a great year 2011 was for us, and chatted about the future.

Life is made up of many experiences. At Slice of Lime, we strive to make our “work life” exceptional, unique, and rewarding – an “amazing experience.” Here’s to 2012 and the experiences that lie ahead.