Once in a while you see a product that is so perfect and so excellent that you can't help but admire it.
We recently found this at SubHub when we ordered Magic Whiteboard. And entrepreneurs ourselves, we were very pleased for the founders, husband and wife Neil and Laura Westwood, when they successfully secured £100,000 in funding in last night's episode of BBC's Dragons Den.
Magic Whiteboard is a statically-charged sheet of polypropylene that sticks to walls using static electricity. It can be written on with a whiteboard marker and erased as easily as an ordinary whiteboard. Papers stick to it without adhesive, also due to the static charge.
We have papered all of the walls of our office with this stuff. It has made our recently-introduced agile development process (more on that in a future post) a breeze. All of our ideas, user stories, development tasks and other activities are now on the walls. Everyone can see, and contribute to, what everyone else is doing. No more silos of information hidden in folders or on hard drives -- it's all on the wall.
Magic Whiteboard makes it possible. We would have figured something else out, using Blu-Tack or whatever, but boy does Magic Whiteboard make it a whole lot easier.
Maybe that's why four of the five Dragons competed to fund the company. Buy a roll or two and see for yourself.
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