Drew Neisser from Renegade posted an interview of yours truly!

"This is the transcript from my interview with Jesse Middleton, founder of GetMinders, a start-up service that hopes to make missing your meds a thing of the past.

What is GetMinders?
GetMinders connects people with their medical reminders, their medical professionals and their families/support networks all via a quick phone call or text message. Our system calls patients to remind them to take their meds, get to their appointments or do their therapy and then offers to connect them with all of the above people to help keep them compliant, happy and healthy.

We’ve been running a super early pilot and the feedback has been amazing so far. We now have a private beta launched that is making over 350 calls per week and we’re really excited to continue to grow the company, build the product and gain more advice and feedback throughout the industry and from people like you.

       

Where did the idea for your business come from?

While I was traveling recently I began a discussion with a distant cousin who is a dentist. As we got talking about the needs of his patients I thought of my grandfather, in Florida, who is in a very late stage of Parkinson’s. It’s easy for someone in his position to forget to take their meds, mess up which ones they take when most importantly become disconnected with his family, friends and medical professionals."

Check out the rest of the article over on Drew's Blog, The Drew Blog.

Moving my blog to SquareSpace

I decided that I'm sick of upgrading WordPress each and every week (that's what it feels like) and I got tired of upgrading 15 plugins each time they rolled out with updates so I've decided to test our SquareSpace.  They provided a really easy way of moving my blog over to their space (including images, comments and more) and they event setup proper permalinks for all of the old posts.

One thing I'm very excited to try out is the editor (so I'm doing that right now).  It seems pretty straight forward and gives me a huge amount of control over how my posts show up.  Bold, strike-through, italic and underlined text work great and the media editor is pretty snazzy too.

From our engagement albumI'll see how I like using the interface over the next month or so and if I need to switch back, I'll do it.  For now, I'm enjoying the fact that I don't have to worry about security, upgrades or my own server.