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Javed Singha, MBA \u201909, Fieldwire<\/p>\n\n\n\n

by Dick Anderson<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For all the construction design tools that look like something out of \u201cThe Jetsons,\u201d the building process itself still resembles \u201cThe Flintstones.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere\u2019s all this phenomenal software that\u2019s happened in the design process, then the execution goes back to paper and pencil,\u201d says Javed Singha. Seeing opportunity, Singha welded the tools he had developed in the social gaming industry with his Johnson MBA and MIT engineering degree. Together with his partner, Yves Frinault, he created Fieldwire, a mobile and web platform designed to track every detail of every job, recording each update with an electronic timestamp for colleagues and clients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Javed Singha, MBA \u201909<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Singha and Frinault had worked together for more than a year at Ubisoft, the video game publisher behind Assassin\u2019s Creed. During a subsequent stint as a project manager at a health-care transparency company, Singha spent \u201ca good nine months and weekends\u201d developing Fieldwire\u2019s product and pitch materials. The startup raised $1.1 million in seed money in July 2013 and another $5.5 million in fresh funding last fall, and Fieldwire now boasts more than 1,000 companies managing some 35,000 projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At its Geary Street offices north of Union Square in San Francisco, Fieldwire keeps an atypically normal 9-to-6 workday. \u201cWe do not ask for nights or weekends ever,\u201d Singha says. Whereas a lot of Silicon Valley startups cater to their employees with great foods and on-demand massages, \u201cWe\u2019re a little counterculture in being fans of core hours and having everyone work together in a collaborative fashion.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If anything has surprised Singha in getting Fieldwire off the ground, it\u2019s that scaling the company culture and distribution can be harder to master than creating the product. \u201cMany tech founders rely on an \u2018If you build it, they will come\u2019 mentality,\u201d he says, \u201cbut in our experience, it takes a lot more time and energy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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