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Lawrence Smith speaking with a prospect at Collision Conference.

15 May 2018 11:06

Smart Break creates a snowball in 28°C weather.

After spending several days in New Orleans attending Collision Conference, Raisoft Oy's product Smart Break was able to start gaining momentum in the United States.

Lawrence Smith blog about Smart Break journey.

4 May 2018 12:49

Confidence brings success. ……and also money.

Let me set the scene here….it’s Tuesday morning in New Orleans and it is hot. I woke up early with a feeling of accomplishment and pizzaz that I was ready for what the day brought. Was I the first one up and about in the apartment? Oh boy, what a rush! I felt like I was leading our team into battle. Just finished making a solid Thomas’ blueberry bagel with cream cheese and turkey when the CEO

1 May 2018 15:00

Pub Crawl and Networking goes hand in hand.

There is a great saying about New Orleans, “we dont hide the crazy, we parade it down the street”. This quote sums up the first walk I made down Bourbon Street. Yowzers. On this trip I was accompanied by two Finnish software designers from a town of around 45,000 people. Needless to say if I was in awe, I can only imagine what they thought.

After dropping off the rental car the first mornin

29 April 2018 15:07

3 Wines later and I’m in New Orleans

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Yaawwwn…what happened, I blacked out. It has been 4 weeks since my last post and boy has it been a trip. A lot has happened since the office ninja terrorized my office. In four weeks, Smart Break has attended Collision Conference and prepped for the next two conferences, all the while completing a transitional phase in to the US market. We have been busy!
A week before we were

20 April 2018 10:31

How to WORK healthier…

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When it comes to wellness and well-being in the coporate world there is talk about how sitting is the new smoking and we should use ergonomically designed epuipment to better our working days. No I didn’t say economically designed, even though this is a good point to make because it seems that some of this ergonomically designed epuipment is pretty pricey.
Back to the point, we

18 April 2018 10:17

Punk’d: Office Ninja

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It is now Wednesday and I have been the victim to an office prankster. Four days now every time I leave my office, which is a supply closet, I return to discover something in the office was not how I left it. Who is doing this? It is almost like Raisoft has an employee that doubles as a silent ninja. Is this getting to me, no. But I need to retaliate and it needs to be very strate

“If you can have fun together, you can also work together”. People are a herd of animals, it is said. So it is natural to join together to reach a common goal.

17 April 2018 10:24

Teamwork makes the Dreamwork

“If you can have fun together, you can also work together”.
People are a herd of animals, it is said. So it is natural to join together to reach a common goal.

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One of my favorite quotes is “Teamwork makes the Dreamwork” by John C. Maxwell. At least, this would seem to be true in working life, where it has been shown that working together and laughing reinforces the working a