Posts by Mike Rustici

Mike is the Founder and was President of Rustici Software until 2016. Most recently he was the CEO of Watershed Systems. He helped guide the first draft of the Tin Can API (xAPI) and believes ice cream is the "elixir of life."

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Balloons and Streamers

If we were a supermarket, we'd have just dropped balloons and streamers on our good friends over at Tandem Learning. But, since we're 798 miles away from them, we just had cake and ice cream at the office instead. Why the hoopla? Well Tandem is…

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Proud To Be Different

Back-to-back. For the third year in a row, the Nashville Business Journal thinks we are one of the best places in town to work. I'm not normally driven by ego, awards or praise, but this is an award I hope to never lose. There aren't…

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Meet the Fab Four

If you read this blog, you probably noticed we’ve been interviewing folks to help us with some of the non-technical aspects of our business. We talked to a lot of really smart people and two weeks ago four of them showed up at the office…

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Game Changing Innovation

We're pretty excited about what we've done with SCORM Cloud. We have big visions for what it can do and where it might take the industry. We're happy to see some others starting to realize its potential as well. From Nick Martin, President of TechChange…

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SCORM Engine v2010.1 Released

It's that time again...we just announced the availability of our latest SCORM Engine version, v2010.1. And, yes, I know you're thinking: "BUT, it's 2011 now dummy". Of course, you're right, but only because this blog post was delayed a few days while we migrated our…

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You want to work here…

"You want to work here." That's how we've always begun our job postings, and we constantly strive to live up to that promise. Being a great place to work is at the essence of Rustici Software. Tim and I want to create a company that…

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Ben’s in the Fold

People often ask us to recommend an LMS for them. We shy away from doing so because we don't want to pick favorites amongst our clients and potential clients. More significantly though, we really don't know all that much about the functionality and utility of…

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Help Us Evolve SCORM Test Track

We are considering the possibility of an update to Test Track and want to get your feedback on what it should include. Please take a few minutes to take our Test Track Improvements Survey. When we released SCORM Test Track a few years ago, we…

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How to Top Kanye and T&A?

I spent last night the Music City Future 50 Awards dinner for the 4th year in a row (we were also just selected for the BusinessTN Hot100 for the second year in a row). If you make the Future 50 five times, you get inducted…

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Coming To Work Here

No, unfortunately this post doesn't mean we're hiring right now. But the next time we are, it would serve an interested applicant well to read this post from 37 Signals. Plenty of people know how to code and have years of experience to show for…

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Open Source Software, and Why the SCORM Engine Isn’t

I've spent the last couple weeks researching, and parts of the last several months pondering, whether it would make sense for us to open up our licensing. Obviously this is a fundamentally important decision for a small company like ours. When I get into fundamentally…

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