photo credit: Joe Pyle Photography
Josh Cramer
CEO, Cramer Dev
Who are you, and what do you do?
Hi, I'm Josh Cramer and I am an Internet Entrepreneur. I lead a team of designers, software engineers, and product managers that help startups launch software based apps and ventures. My role is urging and demanding quality from the team through design, product, and architecture reviews. I am also pretty involved with scaling our team and getting the right people on the bus. I work with a lot of startups in the ideation phase and help through an Ideation Process that allows us to discover the customers and products that we build.
I love what I get to do every day and am thankful for the opportunity to work with an incredibly talented team.
What hardware are you using?
I run a Core i7 15" Macbook Pro with a high-res screen and 8 GB of memory. I also have dual Ergotron desk mount arms that support my laptop and a 23" external LCD. I also have an iPhone 4 and iPad 2. My desk is made from a custom cut and stained solid core door that sports Ikea legs.
Since the team I work with is distributed across the US, I've been on a quest to find the ultimate headset / mic combo. I've burned through many different sets and have ended up on the Bose In Ear Mobile headset and a Sennheiser PC 151 with noise canceling mic and a Headset Buddy adapter.
For video conferencing, I have managed to hook up a GoPro HD Hero 2 camera to use as a webcam through an analog to firewire adapter. Audio comes through a Audio-Technica side address cardioid condenser mic that comes in through a Blue Icicle audio adapter.
Each day, I ride one of two bikes to the office: (1) A BMC Racemaster SLX 01 road bike with an SRAM Rival full group; or (2) A Niner One 9 custom built single speed mountain bike with a 180mm crank arm and rigid front fork.
And what software?
My iPhone apps are too numerous to mention. On the mac, I dump almost everything into Evernote for safe keeping. I usually take notes at every meeting and also push thoughts and ideas into notebooks as well. Evernote remembers all of the details of things that I can't on my own.
Recently, I've been using Wunderlist for task management. The seamless syncing between desktop, web, iPhone, iPad is great.
If I code, which is rarely these days, I do it in TextMate with the Pengwynn Menlo theme. I'm a power Skype user, although our team just switched our group chat from Skype to Flow Dock.
I used to use Exchange for email, but maxed out the number of rules you could make for incoming messages. We then migrated to Google Apps and I haven't hit the max yet, although I'm sure I'm in the upper 1% for number of filter rules on an email account.
What would be your dream setup?
I like the bikes I have, but wouldn't mind a Mission Bicycle Company Custom Fixie and a cyclocross bike if space, budget, and practicality wasn't a concern.
I'm holding out for the 15" Macbook Air. I almost bought the new 13" Air, but decided it didn't have enough memory capability for my needs. I am also looking to get all of my externals hooked up through just one single Thunderbolt port.