Harvest Co-Founder: “Solve A Real Pain Point, And Don’t Be Afraid To Charge For It” [TCTV]

Jordan Crook

Jordan Crook studied English Literature at New York University before entering the tech space. Prior to joining TechCrunch, Crook dabbled in mobile marketing and mobile apps as well as doing device reviews for MobileMarketer and MobileBurn. Crook is fascinated with alternative energy production and greentech. She is now a writer for CrunchGear. Hello → Learn More

Saturday, March 10th, 2012

Right now the enterprise software space is growing rapidly, but so are the number of users who need it, especially freelancers, independent contractors, consultants, and developers. That said, companies who provide services like time-tracking need to evolve in order to meet the growing demands of their users.

I sat down with Danny Wen, co-founder of time-tracking service Harvest, who knows all about this.

The service, which launched as a web app, has gone on to be available on both iOS and Android, and most recently, as a Mac desktop app. Wen told us about how 7 percent of the Harvest user base has already downloaded the app on a Mac.

Wen and I also chatted out what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur without any funding. Harvest was entirely self-funded, and has seemed to weather the storm for the past six years. So if anyone should be shelling out advice, Wen’s the one to do it.


Company: Harvest
Website: getharvest.com
Launch Date: April 2006

Harvest is a provider of time tracking and online invoicing services for freelancers and small businesses. Harvest focuses on providing simple to use web-based software for professional services. Customers range from freelancers to creative services businesses, to team within Fortune 500 organizations and non-profits. Harvest is offered as a web-based software-as-a-service but it is accessible from a variety of platforms and devices including: web browsers, desktop widgets, iPhone, Twitter, and SMS.

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Person: Danny Wen
Companies: Harvest

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