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O so cranky right now.
Due to my whack shcedule, sleep wasn't an option if I wanted to go to the 7:30 Cambridge Chamber of Commerce networking breakfast at the Radisson. (Tried to sleep a little anyways. It wasn't happening.) So stayed up all night to go to an event which I learned, about a quarter of the way through, was embarrassingly off-topic; all the attendees represented mature businesses who wished to sell services to other businesses; the goal of the networking was specifically seeking customers. And here I was, from a pre-production startup seeking funding so that we can provide anti-work services!
I figured this out sometime after a guy at the first table looked at me and disgustedly said "So... you're looking for money. Not customers." (The event was set up like speed dating, with people pitching at a tableful of local businessfolk, then everyone changed tables and did it again. It's actually a good idea, but the topic was just totally wrong for me.) I can't blame myself for this; the CCC website didn't name any topic beyond "business networking". I guess that chambers of commerce are just assumed to focus on business-to-business assistance? I did not know this. Oh well.
At the second table I explained that I was there due to a misunderstanding, and gave my pitch anyway. Not wondering what the hell I was doing there, this table was far more receptive than the first, and I received many smiles wishes for good luck, many from people who had done the scary startup thing themselves years earlier. An ad-space seller from the Herald was especially excited about the Volity idea, because I was describing something so very different from Grand Theft Auto, which is all he knows about modern digital games.
Other bright sides, vaguely: I was expecting to pay the full $70 non-member, walk-in attendance fee, but I guess they either thought I was a member or were feeling generous, and asked for only $35. Also, I am saving a couple hundred bucks on a CCC membership I won't be buying.
So collected some slight burn-experience, and a little good karma, but that's about it. Then I came home, played some Mario DS (this game is so good) and slept from 10:30 to 4:30, making me officially the most vampiric I have ever been. And now I have to find my script so I can go to rehearsal for this radio play thing, which I half-regret volunteering for now... I really didn't think it through as to all the time it'd take in rehearsal. Aaargh. Oh well.
I won't be sleeping tonight, though I'll likely be sleepy and half-dead anyway. Probably I'll just keep myself awake through the Gameshelf shoot in a possibly vain attempt to have a "normal" schedule again. Wish me luck.
Due to my whack shcedule, sleep wasn't an option if I wanted to go to the 7:30 Cambridge Chamber of Commerce networking breakfast at the Radisson. (Tried to sleep a little anyways. It wasn't happening.) So stayed up all night to go to an event which I learned, about a quarter of the way through, was embarrassingly off-topic; all the attendees represented mature businesses who wished to sell services to other businesses; the goal of the networking was specifically seeking customers. And here I was, from a pre-production startup seeking funding so that we can provide anti-work services!
I figured this out sometime after a guy at the first table looked at me and disgustedly said "So... you're looking for money. Not customers." (The event was set up like speed dating, with people pitching at a tableful of local businessfolk, then everyone changed tables and did it again. It's actually a good idea, but the topic was just totally wrong for me.) I can't blame myself for this; the CCC website didn't name any topic beyond "business networking". I guess that chambers of commerce are just assumed to focus on business-to-business assistance? I did not know this. Oh well.
At the second table I explained that I was there due to a misunderstanding, and gave my pitch anyway. Not wondering what the hell I was doing there, this table was far more receptive than the first, and I received many smiles wishes for good luck, many from people who had done the scary startup thing themselves years earlier. An ad-space seller from the Herald was especially excited about the Volity idea, because I was describing something so very different from Grand Theft Auto, which is all he knows about modern digital games.
Other bright sides, vaguely: I was expecting to pay the full $70 non-member, walk-in attendance fee, but I guess they either thought I was a member or were feeling generous, and asked for only $35. Also, I am saving a couple hundred bucks on a CCC membership I won't be buying.
So collected some slight burn-experience, and a little good karma, but that's about it. Then I came home, played some Mario DS (this game is so good) and slept from 10:30 to 4:30, making me officially the most vampiric I have ever been. And now I have to find my script so I can go to rehearsal for this radio play thing, which I half-regret volunteering for now... I really didn't think it through as to all the time it'd take in rehearsal. Aaargh. Oh well.
I won't be sleeping tonight, though I'll likely be sleepy and half-dead anyway. Probably I'll just keep myself awake through the Gameshelf shoot in a possibly vain attempt to have a "normal" schedule again. Wish me luck.
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All that said, there was still card-swapping aplenty and I did get into people's heads, at least at the second table (where, having caught on, I introduced myself sheepishly, so they didn't think I had snuck into a sales even to beg for money) Someone from that table has already mailed me with a friend's kid's resume, which is kind of funny.
Anti-work = games. Volity (http://volity.org) is the technology. And I just fled from a bioinformatics programming job to kick this into motion...