About the Episode:
Angel Rutledge, Co-Founder at Meetify and SignUpGenius, and Kevin Carney, Managing Partner at Kingsmen Software, join us to discuss the importance of MVPs in product development, emphasizing the need to keep them simple and centered around customer needs. Angel Rutledge also shares her experience as a co-founder launching Meetify, a new platform that simplifies the process of scheduling meetings in person.
About the Guest: Angel Rutledge
Angel Rutledge is the CEO of Meetify, a scheduling tool to easily book in person meetings at central locations and ideal times without back and forth emails and texts. Before Meetify, she co-founded and bootstrapped SignUpGenius with her husband Dan Rutledge. Along with their partner, Michael Vadini, they sold a majority stake to a private equity firm in 2017 when the group organizing tool served 100M+ users annually.
In late 2018, Angel moved to a board role and began advising Charlotte entrepreneurs and angel investing. She served on the board of Charlotte Angel Fund II and continues to be involved in the fund and with local entrepreneurs.
She is passionate about building mission driven businesses that simplify tasks, so people can spend more time building better communities. Her hope is that Meetify would grow in order to enrich relationships for a better world as people meet more in person, and that she and Dan would again have the opportunity to work with a team of smart people who love serving others. In addition to building purposeful tech with Dan, Angel’s happy places are cheering on her four adulting children, spending time with her church community, reading and writing, and walking with good friends.
About the Host: Pete Seeber
Pete Seeber is a Partner and the Chief Strategy Officer at Kingsmen Software. In this role, Pete is responsible for overseeing the expansion of Kingsmen. Pete also plays a key role in developing new products and services, identifying new markets, and creating strategies to achieve these goals. To this end, Pete is adept at partnering with our clients to help them overcome their technology and business challenges to reach the complete development of their business model and vision. Pete is a combination of technology, risk and finance executive who has developed his multi-disciplinary background over 25+ years of business and entrepreneurial experience in professional services, large scale consulting, information technology and cybersecurity. He is an entrepreneur who was lucky enough to start his career under the umbrella of one of the most respected consulting firms in the world. It was these early professional experiences that shaped his passion for moving businesses in the right direction and his own personal mantra, “Always Forward”. He is a proud graduate of Wake Forest University. Pete has been actively involved in the Charlotte and Lake Norman communities as a member of the Board of Managers for Greater Charlotte YMCA (through YMCA Lake Norman and YMCA Camp Harrison), Eliminate the Digital Divide, Habitat for Humanity, Summit Foundation, Davidson Youth Baseball Association and others.
About Kingsmen Software:
We are dedicated, experienced practitioners of software development. We grow software iteratively and adapt quickly to changing business objectives, so we deliver the right software at the right time. Our proven approach combines processes, tooling, automation, and frameworks to enable scalability, efficiency, and business agility. Meanwhile, our advisory & coaching services enable technology leaders, business partners and their teams to learn and adapt their way to sustainable, collaborative, and data-driven operating models.
Production Credits:
Produced in partnership with Mistry Projects: https://mistryprojects.com/