The beautiful thing about Startups is that it is always the first and last shot at everything. Our homepage right now is a blank slate. Partly because what we are building has never been built before, partly because we're still looking for the right people to fulfill the vision, and partly because we want to always ensure that whatever we build is easy to use.

When you get brilliant people gearing up to focus on what will be the space to be in 3 years from now it is both exciting and challenging. There are a lot of things that we do not know about the nature of the space in which we are participating. What we know for sure however, is that it will not be business as usual. There are certain values that a future company will need to proliferate in order to inspire brilliant people to focus on really important questions.

For the moment I'm just going to list ours. They are pretty straight forward. I figured since the word value is a noun why not have each of our values be a noun as well. It ends up being pretty cool because we can say that...

Quiksu stands for:

Quickness
Usability
Innovation
Knowledge
Security
Ubiquity

These values have been debated, questioned, prayed on, slept on, you name it, for over a year now and what we agree on is this. Before we are a corporate legal entity we are people organized around powerful questions under a set of motivating values. There is a symbiotic relationship between our questions and our values.

Quiksu is a company that exists because of the Web. The Web is ever-evolving and ever-expanding so if we align ourselves with the core pillars of that which has made the Web what it is and maintain integrity to it then the universe is our limit.

My next few blog entries will be a closer look at each of these values. Then I will begin introducing the team and business units before we really get busy.

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Ethan Jordan
Founder & CEO
Quiksu Systems

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