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Mar. 31st, 2006 02:45 amI have a feeling that April will be a stressful month for us. I mean, literally: a stress point is approaching, and it's all about the money, honey. Here are some things that are all happening at once:
GOOD! Javolin has been (fruitfully) in user-beta for a while and just started its developer beta. The website is coming together (and is in fact already in limited use through Javolin), and once it's done there'll be no reason not to start pointing people at volity.net. I hope this to be three weeks away at most.
BAD! Six months after quitting Harvard, the number in my personal bank statement has become small enough that I've started to notice. Were I not doing what I'm doing, it would be at this point that I would maybe start to kind of vaguely think about asking around regarding work, but then again, the weather's so nice, I think I'll go for a walk and get a coffee. Yeah, it's about that much money.
There is no surprise here, of course. It's just that the time for youthful indiscretion has finally passed. Bring on the mortal dread!
GOOD! I spoke with a potential investor today, for the first time in months. I wasn't actively looking for investors... this one was simply slid across the table to me, and from my parents, of all people. But the timing couldn't be better, given the particular intersection of the state we're at with the worries I'm starting to have. By the end of April, I have got to be in full money-seeking swing.
(As for today's conversation: results inconclusive. It was really just an introduction. We agreed to talk some more next week.)
BAD! Two of our eight seed investors haven't ponied up yet, and one of them seems to be passively avoiding us. This person's California location unfortunately makes this easy to do, as does the fact that our only contact info with him is a personal email address. Then again, we know where he works, and I hear they have phones there...
(Also, probably gonna have to go to the doctor for a stupid thing, and will have to pay for it out of pocket. (Nothing to worry about, and you wouldn't want to know anyway.) Will certainly cost less than Six Months of COBRA (starring a young Gene Hackman in a pre-breakout performance as Andy "Sparks" MacAllister) but still: meh.)
GOOD! Javolin has been (fruitfully) in user-beta for a while and just started its developer beta. The website is coming together (and is in fact already in limited use through Javolin), and once it's done there'll be no reason not to start pointing people at volity.net. I hope this to be three weeks away at most.
BAD! Six months after quitting Harvard, the number in my personal bank statement has become small enough that I've started to notice. Were I not doing what I'm doing, it would be at this point that I would maybe start to kind of vaguely think about asking around regarding work, but then again, the weather's so nice, I think I'll go for a walk and get a coffee. Yeah, it's about that much money.
There is no surprise here, of course. It's just that the time for youthful indiscretion has finally passed. Bring on the mortal dread!
GOOD! I spoke with a potential investor today, for the first time in months. I wasn't actively looking for investors... this one was simply slid across the table to me, and from my parents, of all people. But the timing couldn't be better, given the particular intersection of the state we're at with the worries I'm starting to have. By the end of April, I have got to be in full money-seeking swing.
(As for today's conversation: results inconclusive. It was really just an introduction. We agreed to talk some more next week.)
BAD! Two of our eight seed investors haven't ponied up yet, and one of them seems to be passively avoiding us. This person's California location unfortunately makes this easy to do, as does the fact that our only contact info with him is a personal email address. Then again, we know where he works, and I hear they have phones there...
(Also, probably gonna have to go to the doctor for a stupid thing, and will have to pay for it out of pocket. (Nothing to worry about, and you wouldn't want to know anyway.) Will certainly cost less than Six Months of COBRA (starring a young Gene Hackman in a pre-breakout performance as Andy "Sparks" MacAllister) but still: meh.)